New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-03
Overseas Craft Named for
City in Which Yards
Are Located
Nine More Planned;
Four Taking Shape
Problem Of Adequate Ton.
mage Now Up to Amer
lea, Colonel Says

the ways OF the NewDurgn ShlpyardS
Company yesterday mid shouts of
'Ship, ship, hurray!" from the throats
of 10000 spectators, including Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt.
Hull No. l is the first born of the
Newburgh shipyards. The 5000 ton
carrier was christened Newburgh by
Mrs. Irving Bush, wife of the chairman
of the board of the company that built
the ship for the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration. Nine other ships are to be
built in the same yard. Four of them
rapidly are assuming shape. Before
the newly christened ship had lost
her momentum yesterday, and before
Colonel Roosevelt had ceased waving
his weather worn Panama hat, the keel
of hull No. 6 was being laid on the
smoking incline.
Just as Mrs. Bush smashed
bottle of champagne on the prov of
the moving hulk train filled with
soldiers steamed along the West Shore
Railroad within a stones throw of the
yards. The crowd divided it's cheers
between the soldiers and the Newburgh
and the soldiers called back with equal
fervor.
Now Up to America
Colonel Roosevelt in his speech said:
american shipbuilding labor at
home is vital necessity in order to
support our men on the battlefields in
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prime military need. The army we
have in France has been put there
only because the British furnished so
per cent of the tonnage needed to ferry
it across. From now on American ship
builders must themselves bear this
burden
"Our men at the front cannot fight
effectively unless they are given enor-
nous quantities of food and munitions
and unless they are reinforced literal
~ by millions of men who are trained
or who will be trained on this side of
the ocean. In such circumstances, it
IS the highest patriotic duty to make
the output of ships the largest posi-
BILE. Therefore, any limitation Of out
put whatever in our shipyards is a
crime against the country. Any union
rule or workmen's agreement to limit
the output in shipyards should be
treated as criminal at this time. Per-
shing's men are not limiting their out
put. They don't limit the blood they
shed or the efforts they eXpend, and
shame and disgrace should be the por-
ton of any man who here at home
limits the output necessary to make
the blood and labor of our soldiers at
the front Of avail.
Capitalists Should Be Loyal
"Of course, when loyalty and devo-
ton are prime necessities the capital
lists should take the lead in showing
such loyalty and devotion. No prof
iteering whatever should be allowed
out of war industries. Capital should
not receive an excessive return. The
eminent work. and especially all ship
building contracts, to make sure that
there be no profteering, to make sure
that the necessary and advisable re-
turn on invested capital be not ex-
ceeded and to make sure that in asking
labor to do its utmost capital should
be held to the same standard.
Tine supreme service, of course, is
rendered by the men on the firing line,
and they receive far less pay than their
brothers who stay at home. But the
shipbuilders who do their duty will
have rendered also an indispensable
service in backing up the men in the
trenches. Many of you here have sons.
brothers, kinsfolk in France. The boys
in France get few days off and few va
cations. l wish to link you men before
me here in the shpyards with your
friends and kinsfolk in the army in
shipbuilder shall feel that Stacker in
our shipyards is as shameful a creature
as a coward in France, and that a good
worker in the shipyards stands honor
ably forward like a good soldier in the
army.
Fine Shipyards Spirit
~ have come here to Newburgh
largely because my inquiries have CON
gained limitation of output and prac-
tically no loafng. | am convinced that,
generally speaking, there is a fine
spirit of patriotism in shipbuilding
labor in all parts of the country. Yet
it has been alleged to me that in GER
tain shipyards unions have actually
limited the output, so as to limit the
number of rvets driven in day, or to
limit the number Of days that thew
worked, or in other ways to prevent the
development of our full strength and
our utmost speed.
Such men are traitors to the coun-
try: IL | had my way, l would take
such man, and any man who aided or
abetted such man, put him in the
army at once and send him across the
water to do the hardest work in the
most dangerous position, and l would
not give him a rifle until he had
learned the spirit of patriotism. Any
man who lays off now or scamps his
job is traitor to his fellow Americans
IN France, traitor to the men who
need all the help we can give them
Beware of Bolshevism
From all that l can hear, believe
that there has been developed in this
yard warm spirit of helpfulness and
cooperation. The day of industrial au-
tocracy is passed. If we permit it to
be supplanted, however, by Bolshevism
in industry, we will smash up Just ex-
actly as Russia has smashed up. Ro
manoffism, Kaiserism and autocracy,
whether in politics or in industry. spell
ruin, but Bolshevism and anarchy Of
all kinds spell ruin just exactly as
complete. You can no more have an
industrial army without leaders than
you can have military army without
officers. The Bolshevsts have tsied
both experiments in Russia, and they
nave made Russia n curse to itself and
curse to the rest of mankind in con-
sequence. Democracy can succeed only
It the people understand the need Of
discipline and leadership. If they don't
understand the need, then they will go
down before autocracy."
In closing, Colonel Roosevelt said: