The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-07

5szsazszHsll-iaaaasasall bHa fraction of the thousands of work CTS in the yard are shipnuilders.
 In contrast, Is the Bethlehem shipbullding O., one of the larg- est and oldest in the country, which Investigators report doesn't even begin Co approach the Kaiser yards in efficiency.
 Bethlehem is described as be. ing the biggest obstacle" to c three-shift system. It has yigor. ouly resisted this on tho ground that 1t is impossible to obtain enough trained supervisors. Both. lehem insists on two ten hour shifts, which means q loss Of four production hours c day.
 Kaiser's h.ld other thre0.shift yards have had no trouble train. ing all tho foremofl they needed. Why giant Bethlehem IA unable to do 70 is Q mystery - which the Maritime Commission, that has 50 lavishly favored tho cor- poration, has not deemed neces. Sary to do anything about.
 ... AND WORSE
 Die-hard stubbornne@ and ins efficiency arc only one part Of tho sour Shipbuilding picture. The investigators have come across the trail of other things that emit an odor.
 Among the charges they are probing arc
 i. That repairs, on q Russian ship, sent over for Q cargo Of
 urgently needed war supplies, were deliberately" stalled in one yard for weeks. According to information given investiga. tors, the repairs ordinarily could havo been completed in a week. Instead tho Job took more than c month as Q rsult of "delibor. ate" delays caused by a eons sant shifting of workers, assign- ing workers without tools, with" holding materials, and other dilatory tactics.
 2. That scores Of workers drawing high pay arc constantly standing around Idle ct another drydock because of lack of eff. clent production methods. Also that "overerowding and over. loading" of ships ls a common occurrence At this plant.
 8. That more than 90 high- pay craftsmen at q third plant worked from six weeks to four inonthS on the private homes and farms of certain company executives and that their pay was charged to the government, Also that large quantities of shipbuilding lnatorIAl--J 900 feet of cable, copper tubing, paint, electrical and plumbing equips
 ment--paid for by the govern fnOnt went into this private work. Also that landscape gardener engaged in this work received c Sl,700 company check.
 (sDITORs NOTEi This ls the first of several articles on the shipping program, which Is eur. Fently the sOuFest spot in Che war production plCtuFe.)
 CAPITAL CHAFT
 When, ex-dovernor Max oard- ner of North Carolina was filars ried 36 years ago, the Negroes Of Shelby, N. o. contributed ten cents each, laised e20 and bought the f1ewlyWeds C rocking chairs Last week, 90 years later, MT. and Mrs. Garner doeded % acres Of valuable real estate to the negroes Of Shelby for . cemetery and ptib- lIc park Senatorial colleagues night-andsday study of War laboi pay tribute to the pAinStakinE, problems which Senator Maybaflk of South Carolina is making as . member of the Senate Appr0pfis Ations Committee The fesigs nation Of Ray EGnundson, lille nois head Of the United Mine Workerg, as state Cfo director, dreW q big laugh in labor circles. A helichfnafi Of J0hii |. Lewis, Eds siuridsofl was stripped Of his Cfo i,OWerg several months SEQ when ne fired aii antisLewiE official, afid Illinois CfO ieAders promptly gave him aiothoT job. MdmufidgOii was ono Of tho few C10 leaders who