The sub., 1944-04-27

provides another weapon for those who delight In putting fhe End shift against the 1st-in fostering i'll feeling between the groups. Un- consciously it's the old divide and conquer" theory-if we get scrap ping among ourselves our attentio'. l is distracted from the main issue, production for victory, and from anything that might be put over on us. Remember-when the Ger man people began grunbling against the Naz1s, Hitler pointed at the Jews and said, 'They are re- sponsible! They did 1t all! After them!'
 A lot of us still forget that these boats are not being built by one shift alone.
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 Suggestions to management de partment, wet dock division:
 (a) Have a filter put on the heating plant smokestack near the wet dock (others, too, far as we know). Many's the day we get our eyes full of cinders when the wind whips down the river and have to lose half an hour at the hospital. Multiply that by the number of people going for treat ment because of that. and you have a sizeable amount of produc- tion time lost. , (b) Why not keep the "hot boat" on the end of the wet dock, where the 319 has been? That's logical place for 1t since it's closest to a number of the shops, would save time spent walking back and forth. Co Open the door in the back of the outside machine shop that was recently closed. Some say it's not far to go around to the next door, but again, when you figure the number of times it's used and the time it takes to walk around-a lot of hours could be saved in a week.
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 Further wondering-why aren't temporary light men given first class? Their work is certainly dan gerous, and requires lot of train ing-alSo, why aren't cigarettes sold in our tool crib? Would save time people take to go where they can get them.
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 Our boys on the ways have been doing swell job. The 325 at this writing is way ahead of sched- ule as far as our department is concerned-much is installed and hooked up that usually is done at the wet dock. Before they know it, we'll be launching and com misSioning them at the same time.
 We're going to get headache from this halo.
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 Things we'll never see .Elinor not neat and without a smile the drapery rods Whitey made someone on the wet dock being put to use We heard they're too short. But only on one end "Alki" Hall without pun Alberta bringing in the cake she's been promising the boys for months one of the card sharks making real dough at the supper time games at the light shack Charlotte without quick answer the movies, if they don't take those posts out George the guard without a joke The kangaroo Cronin and Cooper are chasing last we heard, 1t was sprinting up State Street Ed Lane not full of horseplay Those are some vitanin pillSl Dell without that little-girl look about her Johnny Wallace a good looking helper.
 .S. GU.
 Most everybody has plans al- ready for that first night off, May 13. We hear complaints from the 1st shift about getting up earlier but think they should consider this is our first weekday night off since Christmas. And if they still don't like getting up early, there are any number of us who would be only too obliging if they want to swap shifts with us.
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 They say you can't sidetrack one-track mind. SO here we are