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Show TRANSFER CONTRACTS FOR NEW WARSHIPS OAKLAND, Calif., March in. Government Govern-ment ship contracts aggregating more than $rJ.il'0,i(itt which wore to have been filled at. tho I'liion Iron works plant here within tlie next two years, have been transferred to the San Francisco plant of the same company because of unsettled labor conditions, according to announcement announce-ment made by the corporation today. The transfer affected eight submarines, to cost $750,000 each ; six torpedo bVs, to cost $1,000,000 each, and several smaller small-er craft. The decision of the. Union Iron works directors follows the walkout of about 3100 skilled and unskilled laborers at plants here, coincident with a, strike of unskilled shipyard laborers. |