Evening journal., 1918-09-20
WORK OR QUIT
Is PIEZ ORDER
Fleet Officer Bids Hog
Island Foremen Get
Rid of Absentees''
CASTLE DEFENDS
BALL PLAYERS


First step. to break slickerism among
Lipysrd workmen at Hog Island were
AIKEN by the Emergency Fleet Corpora
lion yesterday when Charles Piez. vice
president and general manager, instruct
ed the yard foremen to get rid OF alb
sentees."
Men employed in the shlpyards,"
said Mr. Piez this afternoon, ARE really
engaged in a military operation. and are
no more justified in working only part
lime than soldiers in the trenches would
be justified ir taking a holiday when
ever they felt like il.
These men come 10 the yards under
in agreement 10 work forty-four hours
a week. on a basis Of eight hours
day for five days and four hours on
saturdays. Those men who hereafter
'efuse TO put in full time will be elm
mated"
Under the new man power law which
was 50 drawn as TO reach shipyard
workers, every man exempted from
military duty because or employment
IN the shipyards Will automatically lose
hat classification when discharged
rom the yards and Immediately become
liable to the Graft.
Regulations laid down by Provost
Marshal General Crowder also viii pre-
rent such men, after November 1 from
obtaining employment in other ship
Yards. The some regulations prescribe
the number Of days a shipyard worker
may be absent from his work in a
month.
Fans 40 Hog Island resent assertions
that some of the ballplayers now work
ing there and playing on the island
nine got their Jobs at the shipyard With
the deliberate intention OF evading the
draft. They also deny the baseball men
have soft Jobs and big pay.
That's foolish talk,' said Johnny
Castle this afternoon. Castle Is man
ager Of the ball team at Hog Island
where he has other duties also. For
msrIv he was on outnelder for the
phlUies. More recently he managed
ieams in the Middle West.
'You take Hans Lobert and Big
chief Bender. for instance" Castle
said THEY'RE bolter-up foremen, and
there are no better men in their line on
lh, island" Lobert played third Tor tlle
Phillics for a while, and later went 10
.he Giants. Bender the Indian, played
with the Athletics. where he reached
the pinnacle Of his diamond fame ana
3fterward was on the Phllies- pay
'oll.
Castle went on TO cite other ballplay-
.crs who. he says, have mad, good as
shipworkers. There IS Young, formerly
Detroit second baseman, now a bolter-
up foreman. There Is Joe ORourke,
who PLAYED with The st. Louis Nation
ais. and managed Pacific coast teams.
'soont 4ell me that lad doesn't know
his,s)usiness As a shipwOrker, Castle
snapped. "He served twelve years at
Cramps before he became a proies-
slonal ballplayer and he's some snip
worker, believe me-
And there are others. Take Buckles,
formerly Of the Kansas City team, and
M the New York Americans. When ne
Is not a pitcher he Is a riveter. And
saw. as A riveter, he's real, that boy,
applauded Castle.
Swisler. formerly a pitcher at Penn
ls now A dentist at the Island and
might good dentist, too, says, Castle.
Ralph Maths, who shOne on the dla-
mond for the Pittsburgh Federals, Is
derrick foreman. Erskine Mayer. who
pitched the Phlllles TO many victory
and went TO Pittsburgh, IS snother ol
The bolter-up foremen.
Now there's a man for you eX-
claimed castle. @He's had a technica.
school training and a shlpworkor from
the ground up. And yet they talk about
Stacker ball players down herel Fool
ish talk. tell YOU"
Castle denies The ball-players receive
swollen salaries. "As foremen, they
start in at about siO" he said. "There's
riches for you. And they say these
ball players ride 10 work in automo-
biles. Sure they do. Didn't they run
automobiles before they quit baseballg'