MP and Minister of the Board of Trade, Roy Mason, talks to Jimmy Robinson about the decline of the shipbuilding industry in Britain in light of foreign output, specifically in Germany and Japan. This competition meant a re-examination of the entire industry. Mr Mason also felt management needed to talk to the workers more. 

Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, PC, DL (18 April 1924 – 19 April 2015), was a British Labour politician. He came from a mining background in Barnsley, and became  a Cabinet minister who was Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in the 1970s. 

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