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Show SPANIARDS HAVE BEEN PRO-GERMAN, Inaugurated Boycotts and Strikes in Order to Stop Ship Building. BUENOS A1RF.S, Oct. 21. Correspondence Corres-pondence of The Associated Press) The building and repair of vessels of the Allied nations in this part has been almost stopped by a labor union boycott on Brazilian pine. As this was the only lumber on the local market mar-ket the boycott on Its use halted all woodwork on ships. The boycott is believed by shipping t agents here to have been evolved by Germans and Spaniards in Buenos Aires partly as a hindrance to Allied 1 shipping. It has been alleged for a year or more that German funds and ! German ingenuity were behind the la-i la-i bor organizations here which are dl- rectcd by Spaniards , , A few months ago nearly a dozen I Allied vessels were damaged in col-, col-, llsions while being taken down the ! river by licensed pilots of Austrian I and Greek birth. The collisions oc-j oc-j curr'od in broad daylight and seemed so obviously premeditated that ship agents charged they were dellberate- ly brought about in the interests of the Germans. A government investigation was started, but no report -was ever1 made public. Labor organizations delayed repair work on them so that. two of the vessels ves-sels are still here with no hope of their being se.r-worthy for two or three months more. Now all classes ,of ship laborers are forbidden by their unions to do any work on a ship on which Brazilian pine has been used. The reason given is that all or most of the Brazilian pino used In this city I is imported by one English firm which has been boycotted by the labor unions J for several months, j Private industry is- constructing sev-; sev-; erul vessels in and near Buenos Aires ; for sale o the Allied governments, 'but work on them was stopped by the I boycott. oo : |