Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1917-11-15
GREAT ACTIVITY
on RIVER CLYDE
Twenty-Five Miles of Factories
Turn Out Hundreds of Stand.
ardized Ships.
Chief FOE OF SUBMARINE
Visit to the Great Plants Explains
LIoyd-George's Confidence That
the German Sea Menace Will
Be Beaten.

Glasgow.-A day on the River Clyde
dence that the submarine menace will
be beaten.
A snare-drum roar from thousands
of steam rivetCrs and battlefield of
drumfrc Of crashing hydraulic ham,
mers; amending miles of wooden and
steel scaifoldings with workmen
swarming over them like flies; tower
Ing cranes that look capable of lifting
a county courthouse and setting 1t
down in the next county; these are
some Of the reasons.
Girls-thousands and thousands of
trouseretted girls-furnish so many
additional reasons.
And then there are certain reasons
visible to the eye concerning which
secrecy is imposed. They constitute n
method of direct warfare against sub
marines and are already proving their
effectiveness, but more than that can.
not be told.
Twenty-Five Miles Of Factories.
The Clyde was the greatest ship.
building center in the world before the
activities of three years ago. For
% miles on one side Of the river lin.
mense plants crowd against one an
other; the same is true for half the
distance on the other side of the riv.
er. Soon it will be the whole distance
on both sides.
The worlds biggest fighting craft
went the ways here few days ago
but work stopped many months ago on
what was to be the worlds biggest
merchant ship. Instead, smaller ships
and more of them are being built
Rows on rows of skeletons, some bare
some partly dressed in their armor.
plate, show how the new policy of
building standardized ships is being
carried out. Builders report it means
40 per cent gain In speed of con.
struction.
"Unless the destructiveness Of the
German submarines Is greatly IN.
creased, the extension of British ship.
ping will practically take care of the
situation by autumn" said Fred Lob.
nitz. munitions director for Scotland.
"This does not take into account the
huge preparations under way in Amer
ica."
More than one shipbuilder along the
river displays keen perception Of
the probable acceleration Of Americas
output.
The fact that they are compelled tc
rely on women and girls for an i'm
mense proportion of their labor has
ceased to be considered handicap,
the shipbuilders say. Aside from such
work as calls for sheer muscle, they
declared, the women are completely
qualified as proved by the fact that
they are averaging larger output per
person than men in the same work av-
eraged-before the war. The same in
crease in output since the war began,
of course, has been shown by the men.
Do No Heavy Work.
Women are used chiefly in work
where automatic devices take the
heavy lifting off their hands.
Thus feminine hands are seen turn
ing out 15-inch shells practically with
out masculine assistance; doing the
bulk Of the work on the famous Brit
ish tanks, gun carriages and, natural
ly, on airplanes and airships.
The excellence of their workmanship
makes certain that the problem of ad.
justing labor conditions after the wal
will be big one. "Just now they are
giving thought to one thing only" said
Lobnitz, "and that is the winning of
the war;"