Show jUa iUa I U. U S. S Urged to Construct Additional Steel Plants I SPOKANE Wash Dec 4 UP Assistant Secy of Interior I C. C Girard Davidson said Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day that the government must build steel plants if the steel in industry industry industry in- in continues its basic opposition opposition opposition tion to expansion Davidson said the government also must allocate steel and other scarce metals and undertake a minerals recovery program to build up Its inadequate stockpile stockpile stock stock- pile of strategic minerals and meet current Industrial demand for them He said that military authorities authorities authorities ties are now insisting that we complete the stockpile and that we do it quickly In a speech to the Northwest Mining Davidson lambasted the eastern castern steel barons as men of little faith who are in constant constant constant con con- stant dread of a depression which might leave them with too much steel Although they have at last agreed to expand their production by tons over three years he said the current shortage is running to tons a year If the steel men cant can't raise the capital he said then the Reconstruction Reconstruction Reconstruction Recon Recon- Finance Corp should be authorized to lend them money I If the steel men then should reject these loans because of their basic opposition to expansion then the government itself must build the steel plants as it did during the war he said To meet demands of stockpiling and to maintain an expanding economy for tor full employment he said will entail allocation of scarce materials for a 8 while A Amore Amore Amore more effective program than th the e current voluntary allocation program program program pro pro- gram is needed he said Davidson said he would not pu put t allocation authority in the hands hand s of the eastern ste steel l men who ca cause can n use a voluntary allocation program nm m to continue to Impede western de |