The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-14
DOWN EAST HALLS
POSTERS WITH JOY
Competition Arouses Keenest
Interest Among Ship
yard Legions.
ENTHUSIASM RULES WORK
Boston Manager Of Service
Section Tells How Patri-
otto Pleas Win.

Or. NJ NJ Graham Of Boston. district
service manager OF the National Ser
vice Section OF, the United States Ship
ping Board Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton for the New England States. re-
ported yesterday at the sections head
quarters. 512 Fifth avenue. that inter-
est in the ship poster competition IN
extremely keen among the shipyard
workers. Down East
~Thd first announcement made by
THE SUN about the contest was posted
In shipbuilding plants and on munic-
ipal bulletin boards In many places"
DR.. Graham said, and employees who
could draw and paint at once began to
take notice. Tho poster proposition is
now being taken UP in many plants.
notably tho Victory plant Of the Beth
lehem Steel at Sduantum. Mass; the
Fore River. at Quincy: the Bath Iron
Works. at Bath. Me-. the Texas Ship
Yard, at Bath; tho Cumberland Ship
building Company. at Portland. Me. !:
tho Portland Shipping and Ceiling
Company. Portsmouth Quartermaster's
Stores. Portsmouth Navy Yard: Boston
Navy Yard and otherR
The mon Jumped into the contest
Just a. soon As they heard about 1t.
and feel that you are going to hear
some good news from them.
Power OF Appeal.
1T IL my personal opinion that ship
posters are going to appeal most. as
far as Massachusetts IL concerned, to
There are a vast number OF foreign
born in most OF the shipyards and In
dustrial plants in my State who do
not understand English at all. Down
In Maine they are going to appeal to
the rank and file. because there nearly
all the workmen are Yankees Of the
old fashioned sort" .....
During a period OF twenty-four days.
four teams of National Service Section
speakers and three volunteers under
DR.. Graham's direction addressed 1884,
900 workmen engaged in building ships
or employed at plants that have TO do
with turning out material for the ship
yards
The enthusiasm OF the men for the
work they had in hand. following meet
ings at which they were urged to stick
to their Jobs for the sake of their coun-
try's honor and the success of the war
was SO great that at least Ave strikes in
New England plants were called of after
elaborate preparations had been made
to quit
"A Quartermaster's stores for the
United States Army Is being built at
Boston," DR.. Graham said Two were
Informed that the men on the Job were
going out on strike the next day. We
got UP q meeting. and Capt. Cameron Of
Canada. speaking for the National Ser
vice section. made an address to 5000
men. In the morning OF that day 5000
tons Of cement were unloaded. After the
meeting $4,000 tons were unloaded In
the afternoon during a similar period.
And there wasn't any strike the next
day, This gives you an idea OF what
the National Service Section Is doing for
the Hhipbuildlng programme and the
country in New England.
Big Help in War.
ITO my mind the ship posters result
ing from the competition which the sec
ton is conducting through THE SUN
are going to help a lot in extending the
appeal to the men that they must stick
at their pobs. and they must work hard
and we'll If we are going TO win the war.
And OF course We are going to win IT,
This is the pledge that is repeated by
workers In the New England States at
the start of OF each shipyard meeting
conducted by the men OF DR.. Eaton's
section:
II pledge allegiance to my nag and to
the Republic for which it stands, one
nation. indivisibls with liberty and Jus
tice for all" ....
THIS is the pledge that the shipyard
workers OF Detroit are now taking. and
they are better Americans and better
workmen each time that they repeat It:
$50 long as the war shall last
II will stick on the Job.
IL will do an honest days work
II will work six days week and
overtime II necessary.
Il will do whatever the President OF
the United States asks me to do.
80 help me. God. Amen!'
The ship posters and these pledges
will pull together TO defeat the Kaiser,