The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-07-05
|SHIPBUILDIMG on RIVER
CLYDE WILL BEAT SUBMARINE
Greatest shipbuiIdins Center in the
World has Trebied Its Capacity In
Three Years-Merehant Ships Build
ing.
WOMEN DO THE SKILLED WORK
tBy Lowell Meilett, United Presr
Stan Correspondent.

(By Lowell Meilett, United Press
Stan Corespondent}.
Glasgow. May 24.-tBy maiIJ.-A
day on the River Clyde helps explain
Lloyd Georges confidence that the
submarine menace will be beaten.
A snare drum roar from thousands
of steam riyeters and a battle field
drum fire of crashing hydraulic ham
mers: unending miles OF wooden and
steel scaffoldings with workmen
swarming over them like flies; tow
ering cranes that look capable of lift
ing county court house and setting
it down in the next county; these are
some of the reasons.
Girls s-fhousands and thousands of
trouseretted girls-furnish so many
additional reasons.
And then there are certain reasons
visible to the eye concerning which Sc
crecy is imposed. They constitute a
method of direct warfare against sub
marines and are already proving their
effectiveness, but more than that can
not be told.
The Clyde was the greatest ship
building center in. the world before
;he war. Now it dwarfs its own &C.
tiyities OF three years ago. For TWEEN
ty-two miles on one side OF the river
immense plants crowd against each
other: the same is true for half the
distance on the other side of the river.
Soon il will be the whole distance on
both sides.
The worlds biggest fighting craft
went down the ways here few days
ago. but work stopped many months
ago on what was to be the worlds
biggest merchant ship. Instead small.
er ships and more of them are being
built Rows on rows of skeletons.
some bare. some partly dressed In
their arsnor plate show how the new
policy OF building standardized ships
is being carried out. Builders report
it means n 20 per cent gain in speed
OF construction.
Unless the destructiveness of the
German submarines is greatly increas.
ed. the extension of British shipping
will practically take care OF the stu.
alton by autumn" said Fred Lobnitz
munitions director for Scotland. This
does not take into account the huge
preparations under way in America 8
More than one ship builder along
the river displayed a keen perception
of the probable acceleration of Amer.
ica's output.
The fact that they are compelled
to rely on women and girls for an
immense proportion OF their labor has
ceased 10 be considered handicap.
the ship builders say. Aside from
such work as calls for sheer muscle,
they declared. the women are com,
piete{y qualified as proved by the
fact that they are averaging larger
output per person than men in the
same work averaged. before the war
The same increase in output since
the war began. OF course has been
shown by the men.
Women are used chiefly in work
where automatic devices take the
heavy lifting of their hands.
Thus feminine hands are seen turn
ing out fifteeninch shells practically
without masculine assistance. doing
the bulk OF the work on the famous
British tanks. gun carriages and nat
urally on aeroplanes and airships.
The very excellence of their work
manship makes certain the problem
OF adjusting labor conditions after the
war will be a big one. Just now
they are giving thought to one thing
said Lobnitz.' and that is the winning
of the war"