Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-16
SHIP Carpenters
ASKED TO HELPU. S.
Every One to Be Urged to Work
on 1000 Wooden
Ships.
LIST OF MEN BEING TAKEN

Every ship carpenter in the country
is to be called to help the United States
in the war against Germany.
To aid the shipping board in getting
its contemplated 1000 wooden ships
constructed promptly. a nationwide
investigation to locate every ship car
penter in the land has been undertaken
by the United States employment serv-
ice of the Department Of Labor.
Chiefs of the employment services
twenty zone offices have been instruct
ed to list the names and addresses OF
every man having such experience, and
to make a preliminary report by tele-
graph to Washington by Thursday.
The work already has been begun in
at least two of the zone offices.
Work Of Commissioner Stump.
Commissioner Stump Of Baltimore.
whose zone. the fourth. includes Mary
land and the District Of Columbia. Is
working with President Ferguson OF
the Baltimore Federation of Labor and
the Baltimore and county papers. Gov.
Emerson c. Harrington Of Maryland is
cooperating in the effort. Inspector N.
L
ering Michigan. Wisconsin, Indiana and
Illinois. has asked general co cooperation
of all organizations and is making up
lists in all lake cities.
The shipping board. it is understood,
will need between 100000 and 10000
men to construct the needed ships. De-
partment of Labor officials estimated
today that there are not more than
10000 ship-carpenters In the United
States, but that. these men can train
other carpenters to the work. Men hav-
ing wooden bridge-building experience.
calkers. and carpenters having knowi-
edge of framing work can readily work
into ship-building. 1t is announced that
the employment service probably will
call for lists of all these trades within
few days.
1T is not intended to ask these men
to drop their present employment at
of the bureau Of immigration and head
Of the federal employment service, de-
clared today in announcing the census
of ship carpenters.
All Shipyards Are Needed.
TT is probable that the shipping
board will need the services of every
ship carpenter who is competent to
train the enormous force Of inexperi-
enced men who must be employed to
construct the vessels. Every shipyard
along both coasts and in the numerous
bays and iniets where is sufficient wa
ter to float the vessels will be employed;
and there are hardly enough expert
enced men now in sight to make up
the necessary directing force"
The various labor unions of the coun-
try having connections with building
and constructing work have been called
on by the employment service to assist
in securing the addresses of all such
men. The various state, municipal and
private organizations whom the service
has been cooperating with also will be
asked to make special efforts to take
this census, which must be completed
within few days.
"One problem which is yet to be work
ed out" stated Mr.. Caminetti, .is the
problem which has bothered the service
in it's three years Of harvest-hand work
in the wheat fields and in the fruit
gathering service in Washington and
Oregon: that Of transportation for the
workers. No fund for advancing such
transportation is In the hands Of the
Department of Labor, and although we
secured about $4,000 workers for the
harvest fields last year and have OBJ
tanned more than 10000 placements
within the past six months, despite this
lack, it is evident that when il comes
to securing more than a hundred thou
sand workers in perhaps couple of
months some funds for this purpose
must be available. However, this mat
ter is now being given attention. and
we hope solution will shortly be
reached"