New Britain herald., 1918-10-04

The Standard Shipbuilding Corpor- ati0n, at Shooters Island, operates a plant with six ways. Seven thousand mon are employed, some departments working day and night, and 7.500- ton steel freighters, eight of which have been launched are turned out ready for sea- Here, on the door step of the metropolis, the labor problem is acute. Skilled workers shipfitters, engine and boiler makers-- are at a premium. The labor turn over is three per cent. and absentee ism averages II to s per cent. a day, seriously rctarding production.
 Nearby on Staten Island the Down ey yards, with four ways. have launched a steel freighter Of the type produced tt the Standard plant. and four others have been laid down. Two thousand men are employed, The Staten Island Shipbuilding company has completed four 3.500-ton steel ships and has launched a fifth cargo vessel. With 1,S00 workers, 8 ship every two months is the program
 Wooden ships of 3,50O-tons are being constructed at the Johnson yards on the same waterfront, with t.S00 men oi1e has been launched.
 For the first time in history. ocean going steamships arc being built on the Hudson river, at Newburg. A 9,000-ton steel cargo cartier was launched on Labor Day and four others are under construction. Fan ploying 2.000 men, the NeWburg Shipyards Corporation has laid out its yards, schooled untrained work CTS in the shipbuilding craft. and started production, all in nine months.
 At Port Jefferson the Bayles Ship yard, with TOO men, is at work on two 5,000-ton freighters and two ocean going tugs. Difficulty in ob- taininS adequate labor will be over- come, it was stated, ky immediate erection of houses and dormitories
 Weary 400 miles from the coast, the American Shipbuilding Company, with a history dating back to 1912, is building at Buffalo steel freighters for ocean traffic. With 18O0 work CTS, the yards have launched d yes sel of 3,250-tons and four others are on the ways. but the 4.000-ton type has been adopted as the standard. Here also Great Lakes steamers or dered to the Atlantic to help meet the wars demand for tonnage, are be- ing prepared for floating to sea- AL ready sixty vessels have been lowed to tideWater, several of them neces- SaIlly cut in two to make possible their passage through the canal locks leading from Lake Erie to the St 1 Lawrence.
 Vying in age with the Buffalo Nlant the Gi!dersIeeve river is build- 1 Ing wooden hulls, with force of 500 l men. On the same type of conetruc- tlon are engaged the Eousatonic Shipbuilding company at Stratford, owned by simon Lake inventor of the Lake American naval submarine, and the Ship Construction and Trading company at Stonington. The Strat- ford wards employ 1900 mon, those l at Stonington, roo.
 Along with several of the oldest, Connecticut has one of the newest 1 yards in the east, at Groton. The Cfroton Iron Works. controlled with ] the wooden shipways at Noank by 1 the Charles w. Morse interests has built a thoroughly modern and per manent plant, where steel vessels Of 1 5000 and 9,40o tons are being con- 1 Six ways are served by q 1 force of 2,800 men, to be increased 1 soon to 5000, and the first launching 1 will be held in October. When the 1 plant is completed late this fall 1 ships ready to sail will be erected at The rate of eighteen a year -s.=---~..