The Washington herald., 1918-03-07
new DECISION
BENEFITS ALL
SHIPYARD MEN
Labor Board Makes Adjust
ment Of Hour and Wage
Difficulties.

Wages, hours and conditions OF
employment in all OF the govern
ment shipyards on the South At
Iantic and Gulf Coast, fixed by the
shipbuilding Labor Adjustment
Board, were announced last night
by the board, to be retroactive as
of February /.
In the main the rates for skilled
workers runs about 20 cents a day
less than in the Delaware-Chesa-
peake decision.
1900 Affected.
The decision affects about $4,000
shipbuilders, employed in thirty-six
different yards. 1t applies to all
wooden shipyards south of Balti-
more and to all steel yards south
of Newport News.
The summary of the hourly rates
follows:
Loftsmen, IS cents; acetylene
burners and welders. blacksmiths.
boilermakers. tank testers. hand
clippers and caulkers. copper
smiths, plumbers. pipefitters. cleo
tricians, filters, machinists. joiners.
mill men and sawyers, saw filers,
engineers. molders, pattern makers,
hand riveters. ship carpenters. wood
caulkers, layers out and sheet met
al workers, 65 cents; pneumatic
clippers and caulkers, riggers, erec-
tors (steel), and pneumatic riveters,
so cents; painters and polishers,
fasteners, 55 cents: drillers, ream-
ers, countersinkers, planer hands,
punchers. so cents; boilers. cement
ers, rivet holders-on. As cents.
Firemen, acctylene helpers. black
smiths helpers, cOppersmiths' helpers.
plumbers helpers. pipe-fitters' helpers,
electricians helpers, machinists' help
ers and loftsmen's helpers. As.
Bolters' helpers, cementers' helpers.
molders' helpers. patternmakers' help
ers, punchers' helpers, sheet metal
workers helpers. 81 L.
T.aborers, s..
Heater boys, common laborers, 30.
Passer boys. 25.
These wage schedules establish a
minimum, and were decided after pro-
lUnged hearings in Washington, at
which representatives OF all the crafts
had opportunity to present their re-
I quests and representatives OF the en-
ployers to express their views as to
the reasonableness of the men de-
mapds.
Eight-HOur Day.
working conditions are the prescrip-
tiOn OF an eight-hour day, with time
and a ha.f for overtime week days
and double time for Sundays and the
seven rational holidays; double time
for all overtime on repair work; over
time beyond sixty hours a week pro-
hiSit'd except on repair work, when
ordered by the Navy Department or
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, or
to protect life and property.
Further. shipyard employers are d.
reCted to permit the organization of
shop committees of their employees
and to deal with them in the ad-
justment of grievances. and all dis
elimination between union and nom
union men is to cease.
\ special provision is made for
non -journeymen workers, when
fully qualified craftsmen are un-
available. men not fully qualified
may be employed at rates ten cents
less an hour than those prescribed
for jOurneymen, but il they are re-
tanned six months they must be ad-
vanced to the journeyman's wage.
The yards affected by the deci-
sion follow: North Carolina Ship
building Company, Moorehead City,
n. c.; Southern Shipbuilding Com
pany. Charleston, S. c.; Terry Ship
building Company, Savannah. Ga
american Shipbuilding Company.
Brunswick. Ga; United States Mari
time Corporation. Brunswick, Ga.
the Merrill-Stevens ShipbuiIding
Corporation 1.-TWO yards), the Hill
yer-Sperring-D Dunn Company, the ].
NJ. Murdoch, and Morey and Thorn
as yards, all at Jacksonville. Fla.
Oscar Daniels Company, and Tampa
Dock Company. Tampa, Fla: Pensa-
cola Shipbuilding Company, Pensa-
cola. Fla; Alabama Drydock and
Shipbuilding Company (two yards),
the Murnan Shipbuilding Company,
and Mobile ShipbuildinG Company,
all at Mobile, Ala; Dierke- Blodgett,
Shipbuilding Company. PascaquoIa,
Miss; Hodge Shipbuilding Company,
Company, Inc, and Dantzler Ship
building and Drydock Company,
Moss Point. Miss; Jahncke Ship
building Company, Inc. (two yards).
at Tchefuncta River, La, and at
New Orleans; Merrill-Stevens, Ship
building Corporation, Slidell, La:
Union Bridge and Construction
Company, Morgan City, Texas; Ma
tional Shipbuilding Company, and
southern Drydock and Shipbuilding
Company. at Orange. Texas; Nc
Bride & Law. Lone Star Shipbuild-
ing Company, and Beaumont Ship
building and Drydock Company,
Beaumont, Texas; Universal Ship
building Company, ]. N. Mccain
mon. and Midland Bridge Company,
at Houston, Texas; Newburgh Ship
yards, Inc, Rock Port, Texas; Po-
tOmac Shipbuilding Company, GUAM
tico. Va; York River Shipbuilding
Corporation, West Point, Va, and
Newcombe Life Boat Company,
Hampton, Va.
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