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Show FARMERS INTERESTED IN SHIPBUILDING IN time of war or peace it is the price of wheat at Liverpool that determines deter-mines what the farmer will get for his crop. A supply of ships to carry the wheat from the Pacific coast to Liverpool Liver-pool is as necessary as tractors to carry 'it from the ranch. When asking the Government to place at their disposal all the tonnage it controls or can build, what do the farmers think of the tieing up of the shipbuilding industry by agitators? agi-tators? Is there not a direct community' of interests between the farmer, the shipbuilder, the lumberman and metal industries that demands' speedier production pro-duction of ships, and brands as treason all interruptions? Cities like Portland, Astoria, Puget Sound cities, San Francisco Fran-cisco and Los Angeles need laborers in wood and steel shipyards as much as they are needed on the western front if our own armies are to be saved from starvation. |