Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-10
SEVEN TINES
AS MANY MEN
in SHPYARDS'
II Less thar Year Number
Of Employees Has Been
Greatly Increased

Woou6SOA juno 4V.-Ao1 On8u
2 year ago there were not $4,000 men
employed In American shipyards. To-
day there Ire more than 800, 900
skilled mechanics and laborers en-,
gagged in building ships, and an ad-ttI
ditional 260, 600 employed in making,
III engines, boilers. winches and .oth-J
er machinery necessary to equip them
tremendous expansion by
which the United States hopes to put
into service a new merchant marine
that will rival the trading fleet Of.
any nation in the world has been .ac-
complished in. ..methodical fashion,
without any fuss and feathers" but
~achtevtng~a result that industry long
will regard as one Of the most brill
liant victories of the war. It has been
brought about by the shipping board
that unframed men can become skill
ed workmen only through competent
instruction. One Of the first tasks
Of the shipping board, therefore, was
tho creation of q division OF educa-
ton and training. which has super
vtsed the establishment Of training
oenters and the development Of in
pertntendents: ~ r..
Training Of the various kinds Of
shipbuilders in the yards Is accom-
plished by putting the men to work
on production jobs, under the super
vision Of a yard instructor. This
yard Instructor has full charge OF
gangs while they are learning. The
training will average about 80 per
cent Of finished workmen.
Yard instructors are skilled me-
chanics trained in the teaching meth
/, cd. This training is given in a train
ing center, where the mechanic 10 CIV.
en- an idea. Of International manage
mont, and how to get the instructions
across effectively.
The first training center was es-
t1blished at Newport News. TO 1t
were vent skilled mechanics. selected
from the yards. They were given e
six weeks course of training, eight
hours q day During the last part
of this course they were obliged to
spend forty hours in the actual
INSTRUCTORS are drawn from q variety
kq6 tradeaI such as %riveters, ship tit
kterA,. ship carpenters. caulkers, etc.
Twenty-Five plants have sent men
hwetraining as yard instructors. Tag
lot these men have completed their
@4ntng and "a are o in training.
In addition to the training center
tegtabaished in Newport, News. there
k0Do now several others establtshed;
llak Hog Island. at Chester, Pa. at the
f6ubmartne yard atNeWark,s N. J., and
bat New York city.
30 fkr, IL, yards have put In train
~kdepartmentA Ono yard tnstruc-
tier can train about $50 mon each
kyeaE The period Of training for 9
uoan.nnan varies from two to eight
kWnskA Ono yard has already trained
feDough yard. instructors In the train
hing centers to turn. out weekly SOC
RkAed mechanics within tho yard
In.addttion to the training OF green
msn. there exists the problem Of TAX
kanG men Who arc. already skilled y
ka03ed trades but have never worked
TN Ahapyaxds~.and making them tnte
hf1hu1dm Thts L. called q tadl
eonveedon.oomoo And -cons3stS~es1en.
haally OF determining what supple.
kue3fry work q skf1led mechanic
kfrpm thesauied trades must have II
Eorder to give the necessary knowl.
fodenho do-ohfpbunding work. spe,
kcial Instructors r employed in Z
number of plants ITO meet this sdtun,
hton. s%sS@'3 {
Ry-tratntnE~fo1smensand manasers
kthes shipping. board has been able tc
fd0Veaop In q year the building Of
Ewooden4 ehtp0-Which had been a lonl
Host art. and A1nSmany yard,
(have Increased IN efficiency. more thar
F16 per cent. where we have em.