The sub., 1944-09-14
4 GUEST EDITORIAL
By EUGENE MITCHELL

This Sunday and he wasn't there to work Others were there aso gay flags Tapping above their heads looking at the crowd below and waiting for the big moment Some Naval officers.
 As he walked carefully around our weder could look below and lot of his york; butts frames and superstructure he had welded It all he could do to keep from going to the Naval officers and poln ing with pride but he didn't After a he only of who had worked hard and faithfully assembling this submarine.
 He wasn't much interested in the speeches being made below He didn't need praises congratulations to make him proud of the part he had played worked would be better wor in the making of this boat and he needed exhortaon greater effort the future He thought or the hot smoky hours we'll thousand of then that he spent her hu and of crawling home after
 days hard work to wash off few pounds of soo count his burns and oil his eyes HH thought of how the lives of sixty seventy would depend his work for submarine stronger than it's weakest butt and he knew that his wouldn't fa He also thought of how this Japdestroyer would help deliver his brother from the yellow barbarians in the far-of Phippines-f still alive No wonder he felt proud the boat slid smoothly down into the Thames He didn't think of wages and work ing conditions all that day.
 wonder if the officials who direct the Electric Boat Co., realize that the great majority of the mechanics and other workers employed here have something than money and working conditions in mind they tackle their daily work. There minority, of course-but why into that this minority isn't important and is always present. everywhere We all know them. Wages and working dtons are important naturally for most of have fam
 flies to support and all have health to maintain But that isn't the whole story by long shot, Incidentally I'll bet these officials keep jealous their ln and working conditions
 Events of the last few months especially the month of August show pretty we'll that the directing this nave little understanding or mecnanlcS pride his work and his pride in being mechanic. The weder who felt proud he rode the boat he had helped to build down into the water look any 'The Hill in the and say, "I just important in are in You can't build submarine in air conditioned olce wearing business suit than and men like me- build if the materials dumped along the railroad track and have sign them saying Go to it, boys and figure it out yourseves You can't get along without like than get along with out like you"
 with pride in his work and in his position in this mechanical age especially this period of it. can only be union recently presented to the SU to sneerngy offer to take back the three discharged officials of the union If the members would impeach them!
 The who run this must be intelligent they wouldn't be there Can't they that such things only aggravate the smouderng socaed class war? Their hand ling of the strike uaon both before during and after only makes levelheaded worker want to turn in disgust to hafbaked Socialist Communist theories wondering if it wouldn't be better that way
 Perhaps the management thinks the time is ripe to help other similar bg busness concerns to stamp out labor unons cheered by public wrath at few dsreputabe unions elsewhere. But they forget that good mechanic has pride and that good demand elsewhere What good will it do them if their best and just quit and go elsewhere work leaving the poor stuff to finish up the boats and with whatever work there is to do later? The Naval inspectors won't be any deal with in the future than in the past and faulty work will be very costly though done by lOWpad worker You'd think that these otherwise intelligent would this point They will they their best mechanics go else where to york; to place where they will be treated equals not crngng wagesaves. know I'd hate to try to operate which had only thirdrae personnel
 think that the fundamental reason for the manage ments superiority complex the fact that THEY direct and THEY pay. We'll they do of course That is the capital stc set-up which most of believe n would much like