Ship Subsidies An Economic Study of the Policy of Subsidizing Merchant Marines
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However this may be along other lines, the American worker has never demonstrated any such superiority over the British in shipbuilding. On the contrary, because of the fact that the British output is so large, the various yards have been enabled to specialize. One yard con- fines itself almost entirely to the making of vessels of a certain type, and by this method of specialization is able to introduce various economies denied to the American builder. STATUS OF AMERICAN SHIPPING 49 By virtue o...f the increased efficiency of a given unit of labor due to this specialization Amer- ica's foreign competitor has been able to more than overcome any natural superiority on the part of the American mechanic. Taking increased cost of materials and high wages of labor into consideration, it is evident that at the present time the Ameri- can builder cannot compete with the foreign. The persons appearing before the Merchant Marine Commission placed the cost in America at from thirty to fifty per cent above the cost in the British yard.
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