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WE MUST DECIDE

Shall we build

ships for

war or merchant marine?

Recently the Marine Workers
and Boilermakers Union
presented a brief to Vancouver
City Council urging the building
of a Canadian Merchant Marine.
In an earlier edition the PT
printed a section of this brief
dealing with the Kaiser-Japan
Coal agreement. Following is a
section which argues for the
building of ships for trade rather
than ships for war:

It is well known that Canada does
not have a deep-sea dry cargo
merchant fleet even though it is one
of the world’s leading trading
nations. In our considered opinion,
Canadian needs and abilities are
very well suited to the building of a
fleet of heavily automated, large

bulk carriers. Canadian exports are
predominantly bulk commodities
and these account for a very signifi-
cant portion of world trade. Can-
adian builders have had consider-
able experience in producing ships
for the bulk cargo trade on the
Great Lakes.

In this type of construction,
Welding is the main process and
Canadian methods are second to
none. Modification of the design of
Great Lakes ships in order to meet
Ocean going conditions should not
present too many difficulties in our
Opinion. =

In order for a shipbuilding
program to be effective, it needs to
be on a large scale, not on a one ata
time basis. Industrial progress has
occurred largely on the principle of
mass production. Mass production
depends on standardization. Ways to
achieve lower costs can only be
obtained from mass production and
are impossible when dealing with
single units.

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depth of the Federal election campaign, the PT has entered into a special
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our readers will receive 16 pages each week instead of the present 12 — in two

8-page papers a few days apart.

Starting next week the PT will print 8 pages for the final four weeks of the
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will run us into additional costs, it was felt that the Communist press
must make a special effort to bring the real issues to the people.

The size of the ship to be built is an
important consideration. The day of
the 10,000 tonner is over. The
average bulk. carrier is now of the
order of 25,000 tons and 100,000
tonners are appearing with greater
frequency.

Last month, it was announced
from Ottawa that four 4,100 ton anti-
submarine helicopter carrying
destroyer escorts were to be built in
Canada. These vessels will have gas
turbine propulsion and are equipped
with computerized command and
control systems.

The contracts are as follows:

To Marine Industries Ltd. of Sorel,
Quebec, for two ships at a contract
price of $26,949,668 plus Federal
Sales Tax and

To Davie Shipbuilding of Lauzon,
Quebec, for two ships at $30,326,012
plus Federal Sales Tax.

The ships are to be delivered in the
June 1971 to September 1972 period.

Earlier, at the end of 1967 it was
announced by the federal
government that the reconversion
program planned for the H.M.C.S.
Chaudiere at Burrard Dry Dock had
been postponed till mid-1969.

It is the combination of these two
events which have sharply brought to
light the situation in Canadian
shipbuilding on the B.C. coast.

Clearly all the Canadian taxpayers-
will foot the bill for the destroyer-
escort program and most of the
employment benefits will be located
in Eastern Canada. We contend that
the money should be spent on an all-
Canadian basis and that it would be .
better used to construct a bulk-
commodity Canadian merchant

fleet.

Estimates vary as to what it would
cost to produce a modern, highly
automated bulk carrier on a mass
production basis. Even at $10 million
a piece, the federal commitment to
spend $228 on destroyer escorts,
would be equivalent to 23 bulk

carriers.

Along with the shipbuilding itself it
would be desirable to launch a major
program of

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experimentation in automation
techniques and pre-fabrication. This
is the kind of activity that the
Japanese government has
undertaken with considerable
success.

With our own merchant fleet our
balance of payments position would
be improved. It is currently running
$125 million per year on the debit
side on account of ocean freight
charges paid to foreign operators.

_ . Such a program as we propose
would not only affect ship-building
directly. It is generally agreed that
some 75 percent of the cost of
building a ship originates outside the
yard. Other industries would benefit
as well and be given the opportunity
to develop modern technology.
Shipbuilding involves nearly all
fields of heavy industry and
manufacture.

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