Evening journal., 1918-06-29
PROMISES ENOUGH
( SHIPS TO WIN WAR
Hurley Says They Will be
OF Type TO Help Com
merce, Too
ADDRESSES NATIONAL
SECURITY LEAGUE

CHICAGO, June 29.-Enough ships tc
win the war. whatever that number
may be, and ships OF a type that after
the war viii put America in the flrsl
rank in the matter Of foreign commerc,
is the program OF the United State.
Shipping Board, as announced by
Chairman Edward n. Hurley in an ad-
dress before the National Securit,
League here yesterday. The chairman
Of the Shipping Board gave much ol
the credit for the successful carryinl
out OF the program to the American
working men and the American capital
list working side by side for the som.
mon cause.
"The American capitalist" said Mr.
Hurley, who arrested the attention oil
foreign capitals by the bigness anc
boldness Of his enterprises now ha:
his sleeves rolled up. working for his
government, while his own son sleep:
at night In the wet trenches OF France
'The workingman, slowly climbing
upward, suddenly has found himself
the man Of the hour, his achievement
unexcelled except by those who make
the supreme sacrifice on our battle
front in France. And his boy. too, &:
there fighting shoulder to shoulder
with the capitalists boy.
THE ruthless sinking OF the Lusi-
tsnia already has been avenged by the
American marines in France. We are
deep in the war now, and we are go
ing in deeper We have been building
new ships with a speed that has chal-
lenged the admiration OF the world
but Germany. already striking her hea-
West blows 70 forestall our complete
participation, soon will realize that
America never starts anything without
being able 10 finish 10.
IF you would like TO know what
tonnage we are going to build ] can
tell you that we are going TO build
enough ships 20 win this war. Pres
ldent Wilson has suggested that there
should be no limit on the number Of
men we will send 10 France. What
ever the number may be, we will send
enough men to stop the German army.
And whatever the tonnage ultimately
will be, we will build enough ships
10 win this war. Men and ships
and food and munitions to the limit is
the program Of America.
In waging this war our industries
have been enormously expanded, and
there must needs be a diversion OF
man power not merely to the fight
ing line. but to the essential industries
at home. But even in the eXpedients
of war, we are building firmly and
soundly, like the old Roman road
builders, who for military purposes,
constructed highways that withst0od
the trsflc OF the ages.
"FoI the ships we are building have
all ben designed for conversion TO
peace time uses and the extension Of
our trsie
III know anything about the Amer
lean peple I know that they are going
through; that they are never going to
throw 10 their hands and let the Ger
man g0ernment go through Americas
pocketcRt the point Of a gun. We are
going , fight until the Commander in
Chief the Army and Navy tells us
that tb war Is over, and even when II
Is owe we are going to build ships
fasterhnd more economically than any
natior in the world"
NlrHurley said that the most import
ant fork for which volunteers are
wapH in the carrying out Of the gov
ernmnt's shipping program is shovel
ling .oal aboard the ships.
"Iam informed by the recruiting
servo OF the Shipping Board that
I5O1men a month are needed to meet
theiemands Of the new merchant fleet
fortoal passers and fremen. Under a
nel wage scale, coal psssers get S6j
ntnremen s75 a month. with a bonus
of,0 per cent. for voyages through the
WI zone.
The men accepted for this service
VII not be called for military duty"