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Show ENGLISH SHIPYARDS 100 PER CENT IN UNIONIZATION By Burton J, Hendrick. In English industry wc now find everywhere co-operation and order, but thr contrast is somewhat dlscour-aging dlscour-aging Avhen we turn to this side of the WHter Hpn- wc have the same problem that England had, but so far we have not had much success in meeting them, Labor conditions in this country partly explain the existing exist-ing confusion. Our government is handicapped by having no compact organizations or-ganizations to deal with, either of labor or capital. The English shipyards, ship-yards, for example, are 100 per cent unionized, while American shipyards are hardly unionized at all; the ratio Is .iboiu 1 per cent. All the great yards on the Atlantic coast are "open Shops;" it is only on the Pacific coast that Wa find any sbipardf under union control. The industries upon which England depends for the production pro-duction of war materials are 90 per cent "closed shop." that is. absolutely absolute-ly subject to the unions, whereas here only 10 per cent have entered the ranks of organized labor. This fact at the beginning embar-ra embar-ra es our government in any attempts to deal with the labor problems. |