Trade Driven from England.
.(Bx Electric Telegrajph—Copyrigfit), iFM Pres» Association.) ' , LONDON, Oct. 3. Yarrows contract has not been sublet, thou fe h owing to a loss, fewer men will be employed during the coming winter than otherwise. The loss m wages ia estimated at £200,000. Many are workless in the East End, where meetings held recently petitioned the County Council to have new Thames steamers built in London in order to mitigate the distress.
Narrows' manager, in an interview, stated '-We could have obtained as much of the Austrian contract as we wanted, but we consulted a few of our leading men and they refused to accept less than time and a half for overtime/1 The Daily Mail's Vienna correspondent sfates that Austria denies intending to place such'an extensive order abroad. The models alone were ordered in England. No order has yefc been placed in Trieste. ' Shipbuilding there is 30 per cent, dearer than in England. Trieste is favoured owing to depression in New York.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7923, 4 October 1904, Page 2
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