Mr. Henderson, President of the Board of Education and Chair-
man of the National Advisory Committee of War Output, spent last week-end at Glasgow with the Clyde workers. The most important parts of the excellent speech which he delivered at the Conference of the Clydesdale Branch officials of the Ship Construc- tors' and Shipwrights' Association were those in which he insisted on the urgent need of swift production of war material and the rapid delivery of new merchant vessels. During the early days of the war labour was transferred to the Navy until the construction of merchant shipping was brought to a standstill. We could no longer afford thus to neglect the building of merchant ships. The President of the Board of Trade had conveyed to him a strong desire that everything should be done to secure the rapid delivery of all merchant shipping now under construction.
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