Evening star., 1934-03-13
|2,9)0 GIVEN Jobs
| At HENAWYARD
| SINCE LAST JULY
1000 More Will Be Added
to Force in Next Four
Months.
SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM
BOOM TO EMPLOYMENT
Large Portion of Newcomers,
Mostly Machinists, Are From
Other Towns.

Since July last, the boom In naval
shipbuilding has brought to the Wash
ington Navy Yard 1900 new employees
and in the next four months, 1000
additional, mostly machinists, will be
taken on.
This was disclosed today at the
naval gun factory at the yard, where,
under Rear Admiral Joseph r. De-
frees, the commandant, things are
hustling. In July, the roster showed
1915 names and now the total en-
ployment roll registers 5,9l6, repre-
senting a net increase in force of IS
per cent, officials explained.
The naval authorities here are TAX
Ing on new men all the time and for
the past couple of months, 500 new
employees every four weeks has been
the rule. This morning, for instance,
AZ new workers showed up for duty,
their Civil Service papers and other
requirements having been duly in
dorsed. The yard will reach its max
imum strength in July, when the force
will be practically doubled. January
and February showed a greater in
crease in new workers over Novem-
Der and December, the authorities
pointed out, as the work of getting
ordnance ready for the 80 new ships
is speeded up. At present. drawings
are being finished up and tools being
gotten into shape.
Machinlsts form the dominating
trade OF the new workers. Out of the
900 newcomers, there are some 1000
machlnists and tool makers. In in
creasing the force by 1000 more in
the weeks that are Just ahead there
will be from 500 to 1000 of them
machinists. Half Of the present force
OF some 5000 at the Washington
Navy Yard represents machinists
The authorities declared today that
large share Of the newcomers are
from out of town. New England New
York. Ohio, Detroit and Baltimore
have supplied a great many of the
machinists. The tool makers are
largely from Detroit and the other
automobile centers. When they had
finished the making of dyes and other
equipment. just before the manu-
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dUction with their new models, jobs
opened up at the Washington Nay
Yard. Accordingly. the tool makers
from the Middle West availed them
selves of the opportunity of coming
to the National Capital for work.
The yard officials assume that n
work opens up in the great industrial
centers many of the men now here
will return to their home areas for
jobs This has happened in the past
and the authorities look for repetition.
None of the ordnance material for
the new ships has been finished yet,
officials said today By June 80,
1886. the s238.0O0, 900 authorized by
President Roosevelt to be spent on
the building of 80 new naval vessels.
out of N. R. A. funds. will run out.
that means that the ordnance work
will have to be finished before that.
as the great guns, to be constructed
here, will be placed aboard the ves-
sells prior to that date.
With the anticipated enactment Of
the Vinson measure, designed to
build the American Navy up TO Lon
don treaty strength, and the appro-
priation of the necessary funds. au-
thorities here expect that the WASH
ington Navy Yard will have its hands
full building ordnance for these new
craft.
Practically all the new workers now
in process of being taken on are en-
gagged in the naval gun factory. Only
a few of them are working in the
model-testing basin at the yard.