Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-02-15
Volunteers Wanted
For the Ship Yards

Dr.. Isaac Pierce. Chairman of the
ra2cwclI County Council of Defense,
has received the following letter in
reference to securing volunteers for
the ship yard industry:
Dear DR.. Pierce.
because of your official position,
aud the vital importance of the work
Of enrolling the United States Ship
yard Volunteers, in which you arc
engaged, desire to lay before you
n statement outlining the shp-build-
ing situation.
The information herein contained
IS placed OF your disposal, for use
as you may see fit in obtaining the
enrolment of the necessary men for
the United States Shipyard Volun-
tccrs.
Our ship-building program contem-
plates the construction of six million
tons annually, but owing to the want
OF the necessary skilled men, we are
not under present conditions in n po-
sltion to turn out that tonnage.
The Shipping Board has 10 mon
ey. 1t has the yards. 1t has the
material. The housing question is
being rapidly cleared up. All that is
| needed IS to obtain the necessary eff
iicient labor.
1t should he brought home to en-
ploycrs and to the employees of the
| industries of the nation that their
own future depends on the construc-
/ ton of these ships. The fact is that
the recent order issued by Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield, closing the fac
tories Of the whole country, and the
more recent freight embargo issued
| by Secretary McAdoo, tying up all
the freight with the exception Of the
food and fuel, came not because of n
falling down on the part of the car
rlcrs themselves, but because of the
lack of ships. The reason for this is
PLAIN. The speeding up of the Amer
lean factories piled in the Eastern
scaports. and packed into every rail
way siding outside of the scaboard
cities, thousands of loaded cars of
materials for the war zone. The
result was that even the coal rcuuir-
cd FOR the ships i'll harbor could not
get through, and even the few ships
Shlps which "c now possess were
held in harbor by empty bun!:ers and
could not sail
Until we have ships to clear the
Atlantic ports of manufactured ar
ticles, for which our army in France
and our Niles arc in need these en-
forced holidays and cmbargoes must
recur. with tho result that no fac
tory in America can be assured of
running full time and no workman
can count on continuous employment.
II YOU can drive this home to YOUR
people; if this lesson, through con-
slant repetition, can be thoroughly
learned, there is no doubt that YOU
will get your quota of the necessary
men.
1t is; not members that COUNT is
the efficiency Of the men enrolled.
Ii IS much to the interest of the
LnHnnfacturcr TO send his best men to
Inc Sh'pyart.s as it is to the interest
Of the man himself to go.
II the use of my name will in any
way help You in your work, you
have the authority to use it. quoting.
from this statement, to the end that
The. people from your district may
realize once ord for all that on la
Dor depends the construction of the
needed ships, and on these ships de-
pend not only the war itself, but the
present industrial life of the nation.
Yours respectfully.
EDWARD N. HURLEY.
Chairman of the Board.
Mr.. l.. y. Tynes has been appoint
cd to take charge of this work in
Tazewell county and will be assist
ed by Mrs. Sol. Baach, of Pocahon-
tas; Mrs. j. F. Dudley, of West Ora
ham, and Mrs. J. b. Crabtree, of
Richards
Any one wishing to enlist in this
service should see one of these mem
hers of the Council of Defense for
Tacwcll County and sign an appli-
cation at once.
ISAAC PIERCE, Chairman.
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