BRITISH SHIPPING COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 54, 27 November 1917, Page 5

BRITISH SHIPPING COUNCIL

scope and Problems

DEPUTATION TO THE PRIME

MINISTER

London, November 25

Tho Press Bureau reports:—"The Admiralty announces the formation of a Shipbuilding Council, under the chairmanship of the. Controller of the Admiralty. Tho Council includes representatives of tho shipbuilding and engineering trades, and officers at the Admiralty. The Council will consider tho problems of naval and commercial shipbuilding, and repairs.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "A raiQMPUTATION" MR. LLOYD GEORGE INTERVIEWED. London, November 25. In receiving a representative deputation of employers and workmen of tho shipbuilding trades, submitting joint suggestions for securing tho greatest ■possible output of new ships, Mr. Lloyd George declared that it waR quite a unique deputation, and might well mark a very important step forward in industrial relations. It was one of the most encouraging features of the nrosecution of the war, and a matter for gratification, that employers and employees should desire the establishment of a body representative of both,_ which will be an efficient in strum cut' for settling difficulties and disputes. He hoped that this would be the beginning of very big things in the way of hotter and more complete and permanent understanding between employers and workmen as regards the vital interests of tlie country. "We are fighting for our lives," said the Prime Minister, "and a terrible struggle on land is before us; but if we securo the seas the enemy cannot "scape us. Wo have got him in a "deadly grip. Germany knows how deadly it is, and is trying to unlooso it by attempting to get at us in what sho considers our most vulnerable point, namelv, our sea communications: but she will not succeed." —Aus.-N.Z. C«M« Assn.