The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-06-04
BUILDERS
NEEDED IN
WAR PLANS
Puget Sound to Launch
One Hundred Wooden
Vessels
NEED OF MEN IS GREAT
United States Immigration Bureau at
Work in Effort to Mobilize
Expert WOrkmen

SEATTLE-Mobilizing the forces OF
the third line of defense has begun
on Pudget sound and in the Pacific
northwest, where the government has
centered it's wooden ~shipbuilding pro-
gram. This line of defense includes
for the present an endless chain OF
wooden ships with which to combat
the U-boat menace and break the sub
marine blockade of our allies. The
man ship yards on Pudget sound and
in that vicinity have for several weeks
refused to contract for private YES
sells in order to be prepared for the
government shipbuilding drive and to
have the decks cleared for prompt ac-
ton when the federal shipping board
gave the word. They have thus placed
their yards in government service and
are constructing new ways and MAX
ing every effort to cooperate with
the shipping board and turf out tom
mage al record-breaking speed.
Need of Men Great
The TASK of mobilizing the labor
effectives necessary to successfully
carry out this important defense pro-
gram has also been under way for
several weeks through the employ
ment bureau of the U. S. immigration
service. This bureau has been, and
is, registering shipwrights and other
skilled artisans, expects to eventual
Jy see several thousand men of this
particular ability assembled in the
Puget sound and northwest shipyards.
In order to disturb no other industry,
it is necessary for the government to
draw these skilled workmen from eve
ry part of the country, with only a few
men each from the various commun-
tiles where this class of labor is not
over active.
Part of War Plan .
The Importance of the governments
ship program is so great that the
workman who offers his experience
and skill and docs his bit" in the
ship yards, is in no small degree con-
tributing to the country's defense. In
fact, there is a likelihood that the
skilled men needed in the ship yards
will be exempt from the army draft
owing to the shipping boards pro-
gram playing so important a part in
the war plans of the United States.
Register Skilled Workers
The federal bureau in Seattle is
registering not only ship carpenters,
but other skilled workmen of service
in ship construction. The demand is
for shipwrights in which class are in
cluded bridge carpenters, also for
caulkers and ringers, for painters,
blacksmiths, donkeymen, structural
steel men, sheet metal workers, saw
operators, and ship j%oiners, in which
last work house carpenters and cab |
met makers are qualifying; intelligent
labor for use as helpers is also being
list. There is a demand for some COM
labor, but this is being filled
with little difficulty. The wages
which local ship labor is bringing are
about in the class with that paid mum
Ition workers along the eastern coast
Turing the early months of the Eu-
-opean conflict in 1915 and 1916. In
he shipbuilding industry on Puget
today shipwrights and ~joiners
ire getting from $3.50 to Sc for eight
lours work. Caulkers are getting $7f
|, day, painters $3.50, blacksmiths So
md even common labor from So to
$50.
Build 100 Ships
at will be necessary" declared
President A. ]. Rhodes Of the Seattle
,hamber of Commerce and Commerce
club today; 'for the government
0 build not less than 100 wooden ships
q northwest yards. Where a year
r so ago there were 1000 men on the
hi%pbuilding payroll in Seattle, within
he next few months there will prob
bly, be 10000 men engaged in this
allied industries in this city and
Successful carrying out OF
le shipping boards program means
yercoming the submarine menace"
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