Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-07
EXPECTSHTP WORKERS
HOUSED WITHIN CITY
Hog Island Chief Thinks Land
Here Will Be
Communicated
AVOID RIVER TROUBLES
Head of Special Committee Will
Confer Tomorrow on Question
With Mayor Smith

Philadelphlas prospects for housing
the many thousand workers at the Gov
ernment shpbuilding plant at Hog Island
are bright
Charles Piez, OF Chicago, general man
ager Of the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton. who today will inspect the man.
moth plant with Government shipbuild-
ing experts, said he believed that the
Government would not subject the work.
men TO the delay and Inconvenience Of
crossing the river TO their homes
II am convinced that speculative gem
/ tlemen who have got control OF the
I land wanted for workmcns homes are
doomed to bitter disappointment II
they expect TO reap large profits" he
said. while | have no definite in
formation on the subject, | am certain
that the Government will comma ndeor
the land needed rather than subject the
workmcn to the delay aud Inconvenience
of crossing the river 10 their homes"
Mr.. Picz said that the most serious Of
labor troubles experienced lately AZ Hog
Island was the difficulty encountered by
workers in getting to work across the
icc-bound Delaware River. lie said that
decision in the matter has been placed
In the hands of special committee,
headed by J. Rogers Flannery. chairman
OF the Government Shipping Board llOus-
ing Commission
y.,,, ro>.,,,, ,
'>'' IN NiH ''''
inc recent warning OF Mr.. Flannery.
VINO told committee OF Philadelphia
business that unless reductions
III the price OF land IN the forteth ward
,alualioil o. s'voV an arc mas peon
arc inaue' 'he MONIES WIN pe erected
49,, ,l .Ne" Jersey couPIeu WIN Mr' iieE
o1n,,si n1,isi "nahes ,nc poSS'p'''t'eS ior Fhii-
"u''a ,rha iJon' i"rt., 49, ..,,
A., ,,,a s", n,eu "e'r lnlo,' ,'Icu ny
ference tomorrow with Mayor Smith. to
W%hon % VIII De Ieit decision as to what
Una ,an o'er iol t"c housing
pIan, p nc lrt y DC Known 'nat the
~ d,,,,,n,,',',I Ma9 ','c''l'eu w taNor
,a.'. m''aueip''ia ~ prcause OF ls
o',,'hp,i,a,,'' ana I'''vi autai'aEes, out
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~ nronor,ia snr ,ho ',1a,,,o,'. 'y ,''"'S ~.
in maj ser,,o,
ri,L A. ,,t,.... ...u, ,
RraTTard cp1inoor ,nd ,rchi,,, -
has bcen working on ,an,a,t,o 80.
for the new communitv for soycr.I
weeks Members of tho American In.
ternatIonal Shipbuildinp Cornornttoh aIso
are to be represented In n few days tho
Government announcements will be made
Sites considered alternatives to the
Philadelphia area are from one and a
half to three miles from Hog Island
and accessible only by boat To reach
them at this time of the vear is alrnos,
impossible, Chief Albright, Of the Bu-
reau OF Surveys, said.
with ice clogging "IJorseghoe Bend"
on the Jersey side Of the Delaware
River and the gorgiug along tho
Schuylkill delta. the question of nayi-
eaeiol l'aS given tiie Government agents
BOWLES TO AID INSPECTORS
ACCOMMODATING Mr. pisz ou tho ,our
of inspection TODAY will he Rear Admiral
Francis r. Bowles director of tho dIyi-
sion of steel shipbuildinp construction
and Rear Admiral H. r. Rousseau di-
rector of shipyard construction The
trio will examine tho housing n,ohIo,,
labor and management at the ward with
n view 10 seeing If more nropress ran