The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1918-07-11
ARE ON THE RUN
SCHWAB TELLS SHIP
BUILDERS.
Than Destruction and Credit
for Victory Will be Equal
to Fighters ON Front
and Riveters at
Home.

San Francisco, July Ave are
building our ships now faster than
the submarines can destroy them,
Charles NJ. Schwab, director general
OF the Emergency Fleet Corporation,
told the workers of the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Corporation at it's big
union plant here today,
Great things are being done to-.
day in the shipyards Of America, and
when the truth percolates to the
German people they will know that
their leaders have deceived tnen.
that Americans have their sleeves
rolled up and we have our fighting
this war if it takes the last man, the
last ounce of strength, the last re-
sources and the last dollar that this
country possesses, he said.
Every one Of you has chance
to win honors in this great fight in
submarines battle 9f construction
launch a cargo or troop ship or
tanker we add to the certainty that
German submarines cannot win this
war. Already we have the U-boats
on the run, and if we keep up the
pace we will have them beaten by
next year.
1.-The German hordes may make
some advances on the western front,
but are we downhearted? No! Our
army in France and our shipbuild-
ing. army at home are getting into
their full stride and we will whip
them if it takes everything we have.
81 am confident now that if we
pull together and every man stays on
the job we will produce more than
100000 dead weight tons of ships
this year.
They have been delayed down at
Hog Island in getting their fabricat-
ed steel, but we are not going to have
we have made arrangements for the
construction of two big fabricating
siXty-seven plants already engaged
in fabricating work. Admiral Bow
les, who has charge of the work
there, tells me that when Hog Is
be launching there every other
day. He also says he is going to
launch fifty ships at Hog Island be-
fore January.
do not think for one moment
that the Prussian generals are UNI
moved by what we are accomplish
ing. The Kaiser knows. that with
the ne ~ united IN it, backing cki Of American
never be beaten. The credit for
winning this war will be shared
equally by the workmen of America
and the fighters of America. The
heater boy today is young hero
who deserves place alongside the
drummer boy in that picture you
have seen so often, The Spirit of
l'76.'
German submarines appeared re-
Gently off the Atlantic coast trying
to crowd us off the ocean highways.
That was no new thing for Ger
many. Prussian officers in German
Icities crowd civilians off the pave
! ments. Americans know their rights
and will fight for them. They won
be crowded off the streets or off the
ocean highways.
In the German raid on American
shipping the scayengers of the sea
sank few ships, mostly small ones
and OF no great consequence in Win
ming the war. During their activi-
ties American shipyards completed
thirty vessels, aggregating 10000
| TONS
The shipbuilders on the Great
Lakes will produce between 100000
and 100000 tons this year, and
they are preparing to double their
output next year.
Mr.. Schwab ended his address
with this special appeal to the work
ing men:
Put punch in your work and
We'll put over the programme. Ii
you stand up to your job We'll make
the Kaiser take his medicine lying
down."