New-York tribune., 1918-12-10
Ship Board
To Find Jobs
For Soldiers
Can Place 100000 Men i'm
Strengthening Out the
Snarls of Demobilization

The United States Shipping Board is
going to take q hand in Strengthening
out the snarls of rehabilitation. For
this purpose, its entire industrial SER
vice section, with a staff of 1900, has
been made over into labor supply sec
ton. Into every military camp in the
country representatives of this depart
ment will proceed at once, in svs-
tematized effort to bring jobs and men
together and thus circumvent the ma
tlon-wde labor crisis" which so MANY
statesmen and industrial leaders are
fearing.
The advance guard of the boards
staff arrived at Camp Upton yesterday,
in the persons of two men armed with
pamphlets and moving picture appa-
ratus. To-day these men are to be
joined by Gordon l.. Sawyer, who has
been serving as head of the industrial
service section in this part of the coun-
try.
Many Jobs in Shipyards
One hundred thousand jobs, Mr.. Saw
yer SAID last night In discussing the
project, are at this moment waiting in
the steel shipyards of America for re-
liable workers. Four hundred thousand
more are in prospect.
Before the war;" he said, 1--WE had
; total of only $4,000 workers in our
shipyards. To-day we have more than
100000. But we shall need more than
100000 men in order to put through
the shipbuilding programme we have
under way. The demobilized soldiers,
selected men between twenty-one and
thirty-one, fit and hardened under mill
tary training, are the ideal men for
this work. There is no reason why
they should not have the places, and
have them just as quickly as they can
be put into them
Moving Pictures Will Be Used
The plan of its campaign was per-
| fected, Mr. Sawyer said, at meeting
of the indu ;trial section of the board
! held in Philadelphia, the Atlantic
| Coast industrial headquarters, last
Saturday night. Nearly a hundred
delegates were in attendance, with VIII
fred Jessup, head of the Philadelphia
Office, presiding. A strong represen
tation from the Merchant Marine
Board was included at the gathering
I together with three officials from the
Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders Assoca-
/ ton.
At this time it was decided, in &C
cordance with a proposal drawn up by
Leons c. Marshall, manager of the In
dustrial Relations Section Of the Ship
ping Board at Washington, to form q
commission of sixty men-thirty from
the in dustrial service section and
/ thirty from the merchant marine ser
vce-,o present the advantages Of
shipyard and merchant marine work
to the demobillzing troops throughout
the country.
Pay Is Liberal
Moving picture views of the yards
and their processes and of the work
of the merchant sailor are to be showr
everywhere. Detailed talks are to be
given as to the precise conditions
which the men may expect to meet anC
the compensation they may earn. Ap-
rMcatons will then be circulated, anc
through cooperation with the three
great organizations of. shipbuilders-
the Atlantic Coast, the Pacific Coast
and the Gulf Shipbuilders' associations
arrangements will be made for the
immediate reception of all the mer
who wish to sign up. Members of any
cne of these associations also may, il
they so desire, accompany the Fedora
commissioners on the latter's trips tt
the camps.
AS one evidence Of how much in
terest the shipbuiiders are taking il
the plan, announcement came yester
day from the Submarine Boat corpo
ration, through its vice-presire,
Henry r. Sutphen, that discharged sol
diers and sailors will be especially wei
coined at this firms Newark Bay yards
Training schools. Mr.. Sutphen pointed
ont. are maintained here where MAJ
NAV become a skilled shipworker il
six weeks, receiving SO cents an hou
during the instruction period. There
after, he said, the piecework wage
range from 81 to SIS day. There /
also MIR. Sawyer pointed out, an al
most unlimited demand for unskille
laborers.
More Soldiers Coming Home