HEAVY DRINKING BY SHIPYARD WORKERS
STARTLING STATEMENTS (Rec. March 31, 0.50 : a.m.) London, March 30. A deputation representing tho leading sliip-builders in the United Kingdom waited upon Mr. Lloyd George and . Urged the closing of the public-houses and clubs in the areas where war munitions were manufactured. Speakers asserted that the average time worked at most of the yards, despite day and night work,- was seven days below the normal before tho war. Eighty per cent, of the loss of time was due to drink. In one instance a battleship requiring immodiato repairs was delayed for a whole day because the rivetwrs wore drinking. More curtailment, would not meet the problem. Mr. Lloyd George said that his own information was equally startling. "Tho greatest and most deadly of our foes," he'said, "is drink. Excessive drinking is seriouflv interfering with the output of munitions, which must be enorvwouslj increased to enable, us to win," :
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2423, 31 March 1915, Page 5
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153HEAVY DRINKING BY SHIPYARD WORKERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2423, 31 March 1915, Page 5
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