The Cordova daily times., 1918-10-31
EACH RIVET A
 NAIL IN COFFIN
 OF THE KAISER

1 for d ship-riveting record in an Amer ican shipbuilding plant is like drive of the Yanks against the Hun lines in : France. Both demand intensive prep aration. PcrShings commanders at the front and John Wolf builder of ships in the Hog Island yard are using the same methods.
 That is how Wolf, the worlds cham pion general forman ship riveter set new record with his gangs and drove 195,242 rivcts in eight hours at the Hog Island yard on Friday. Sep | tember l3 Asked how he and his men did it, Wolf said:
 Before the American troops over wonder make a drive on the Hun they make careful preparations days in ad- vance l follow the same principle in | getting ready for d riveting drive. "Riveters were as scarce as monkey wrenches in a parlor when Uncle sam opened the ball in the shipbuildng 1 game. We've had to make 'em, that's all
 Every one of my forty-thrcc gangs Of riveters were as green as fresh pine only d short time ago, l got '"m ] from the training school which has been established in the yard by tn" industrial relations group of tn" L. $. shipping boards emergency fleet cor poration l have worked like d coal hcaycr whipping this raw material into shape. and want to say right now there are no better working bud dies in the world Any time ot the day or night I'll stack mE E1sNi"- against th" cream Of th" t.m.us Scot u~n yards on the Clyde.
 What is the s,crot of the success, of my gangs We'll n's aa sinpl" as the nose on your lace. The nr,r thing | do i, to put my huskir, next To the big idea in rHo ~hi. DuiIdn2 game. | hammer il into their head. that every rn,t they drive l. equal To .ruut nail in the ron.u of that Wen child- murderer the Kaiser In other words. | make their part n thi, war game so real that they pound riyeGs nhn in" boys over there pump machine guns
 flo hit the bulls eye in d rlycting drive, you've got to prepare Ior II like the Tanks arrange for drive against the Huns. When General Pcrshing gets it into his head that he wants to give the Hun a good hard bump he takes a few thousand Yank huskies back of the line and puts them through a stin course of sprouts in the way of intensive training. When the boys have completed the course they are as hard as steel nails and they can wade through anything.
 "I lined things up for my drive in much the same way When things opened up had the holes all reamed and the proper tools all in place. So when the drive started We had d whirl- wind start. and the way We walked away from the other gangs was good to see According to my way of figur- ing this thing called morale is blamed important in any game. 1 don't care a rap whether it's soldering or driv- ing rivets. you've got to have the boys mentally and physically up to snun. | aim to keep my huskies standing right up on their toes most of the time In the respect of keeping the boys in q fighting mood, l am aided by my boss rivctcr, Joe Diamond, who has been in the game for more than twenty years and has worked in ship yards all over the country. How about it. Joe?"
 Wolf turned to a stockily built man in soiled overalls and jumper who stood nearby Joe shifted bashfully from one foot to another.
 "I try to do my bit boss" he said. but all of Us would go to II for you, John, you know that"
 Wolf grinned pridefully.
 You see the spirit of my huskies. don't you?" he asked Why, when the drive was the hottest even our superintendent, Walter Blandford. got the fever. He chuCked off his coat. grabbed a riveting hammer and drove 350 rivets. My huskies have the spunk and the ginger and that counts" The record for the entire yard on l that day was l95242 rivets in eight hours, or thirty-eight rivets per hour per production gang. Wolf's gangs