The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-21

Governor Marcus H. Holcomb has requested the newspapers of Con- necticut to publish the following mes- sage to the people of the state:
 '"The federal government tells US that the submarine danger is not over, that ships are being sunk faster than they are being replaced, and that ship building must be speeded up in order that the U boat menace may be over come.
 Recently I received a message from Charles Pies, vice president and gen. eral manager of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, in which he said: With out a great industrial army ready to take it's place as the need for labor in the shipyards ever grows more ur- gent, we cannot carry out the ship building program on which hangs the | fate of our army in France, and of our allies the world over. To win the war our first need is ships, and to build ships our first need is earnest skilled labor.'
 | 'HThe United States Shipping Board, the department of labor and state councils of defense throughout the country have undertaken to enroll 250,0 900 artisans and skilled mechanics for service in the shipyards. The men thus enrolled will be known as the United States Shipyard Volunteers of the Public Service Reserve
 l "In Connecticut this enrolment is to be carried on under the direction of the Connecticut State Council of Defense. Its central office at the state capitol and it's war bureaus aud town committees throughout the state will handle this important task. The enrolment and subsequent service in the shipyards will be carried on with view to avoiding disturbance of ex- Isting labor conditions within this state.
 'It should be made clear at thts time that the government asks for ab- solutely nothing except an enrolment Shipyards are not ready yet to re ccave workers, but am advised from Washington that many of the yards will be ready soon.
 "As soon as they can be sent out from the councils office, enrolment Icards will be in the hands of war bureaus and town committees through out the state, and the eronlIment of Connecticut men for shipyard service can be undertaken. The federal ship. Iping board. which calls for this en- roilment, has charge of the construc- ton of America's new merchant ma rine. The Emergency Fleet Corpora ton is the government organization which will have charge of the ships when they are completed and which controls and operates vessels now in the hands of the government.
 "In this grave national emergency I call upon the skilled workmen o1 Connecticut to consider carefully their duty. Without question, ship building is matter of vital import ance in our fight with Germany. Skill ed workmen have duty in this wal which the government considers as important as the duty of carrying arms is to those who are able to dc that. These men in this state wht are willing to enter the shipyards where every rivet driven is blow a the Kaiser, are called upon to enrol for this service. They must remem Der, however, that their duty now fl to enroll and to remian at their pres s0t tasks until the government call. them to service and directs then where to go.
 MARCUS H. HOLCOMB,
 Governor of Connecticut"
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