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Show RELEASE STEEL FOR INDUSTRIES OF WAR PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 22. From 10,-Onn 10,-Onn to xl5,000 tons of steel allotted to shipyards will be released each week for other war Industries, it was announced today by Charles M. Schwab, director general of the emergency fleet corporation, after a conference with representatives of all the steel shipyards of the east. The 50.000 tons a week assigned to shipbuilding. ship-building. It was said, proved to be beyond be-yond the needs of the plants, operating, as they are, with a shortage of labor. "My next problem," said Mr. Schwab, "is to get 150,000 more trained, ship workmen. The shortage exists in all the yards of the country and especially in the Delaware river district." |