The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1918-01-25
MECHANICS WANTED.

Dakota Division, Bulletin No. q.
Conference.-The following bulletin
was sent out from the War Emergency
Employment Service. Please read care
fully as it contains good deal of nfor-
nation that will be of service to you in
presenting this matter to applicants for
enrolment:
"Emphasize to those people making
inquiry as to the possibility for work in
ship building in the Puget Sound dis
trict, including Seattle, Tacoma and
other state of Washington coast towns,
that there is already available locally a
supply of crafts for the building trades,
such as house carpenters, painters. plum
bers, electricians and the like, together
with unskilled labor, to meet ship build
ing requirements. The need is for skill
ed workers who are used to handling
steel, these are machinIsts, boiler maxi
ers, sheet metal workers, rlveters and
tue like. In the wooden ship building
work there is strong demand for ship
wrights and caulkers.
In order to insure the bringing in of
competent skilled material, field exami-
ners have been appointed to visit the
towns where there is shown to be a large
quantity of available men, to examine
them and ascertain their fitness. Advise
men to stay put until they are sure that
they have submitted sufficient informa-
tion and have been passed as to their
qualifications before they leave for the
Pacific coast. Where applications are
made from the more remote regions, in
sist that they give sufficient evidence of
their qualifications as skilled mechanics.
Practically all of the ship building in
dustry of the Puget Sound district is on
a union shop basis and it will be neces.
sary for most of the men to be members
of their crafts organization IN the local.
,ty. or to signify their willingness to be
come members. This will simplify mat
ters greatly in their absorption into the
plans here.
No one should come to the Coast with
the idea of securing employment in the
ship yards without first making applica-
tion to the nearest Federal employment
office, the manager of which will advise
this office, furnishing complete informa-
tion as TO age, nationality, whether mar
ried or single, specific trade, years of ex-
perience and what work actually per-
formed by years; also what business now
engaged in and whether union or non-
union.
Cost of living, including rents and
staple Articles, ls about the same as other
parts of the country.
There are approximately fifty ship
building concerns in the state of WASH
ington. There are four yards in Seattle
now building steel vessels, two yards
now under construction, which will be
in operation within the near future. and
one steel yard IN Tacoma, now building
vessels. The yards building wooden
vessels are located in Seattle, Tacoma
and other coast cities Of Washington.
1t is the plan to greatly increase the
working forces in these yards.
The wages are paid approximately as
follows, eight hours constituting day's
work:
Sheet metal workers. ............e8 90
Marine plpe1tters ................b q
Coppersmiths /.
Anglesmit hs. ........... -. 5 30
Moulders {. 5 95|
Machinists ......... .............6 s IS
Caulksrs !. ]. j. /. ]. ....... & sol
Shipwrigh ghts \. s I. ~. 600
Boihrmakses iron ship building q 81