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Plant an acre for the shell-hounded j
fanners of “No Man’s Land.”
IN SHIPYARDS OF
UNITED STATES
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WASHINGTON, June 13.—Less
than a year ago there were not 45,000
men employed in American shipyards.
Today there are more than 100,000
skilled mechanics and laborers en
gaged in building ships, and ad
ditional 250,000 employed in making
the engines, boilers, winches and
other machinery necessary to equip
them.
This tremendous expansion by
which the United States hopes to put
into service a new merchant marine
that will rival the trading fleet of any
nation in the world has been accom
plished in methodical fashion, without
any “fuss and feathers,’’ but achiev
ing a result that industry long will re
gard as one of the most brilliant vic
tories of the war. It has been brought
about by the shipping board through
recognition of the principle that un
trained men can become skilled work
men only through competent instruc
tion. One of the first tasks of the
shipping board, therefore, was the
creation of a division of education and
training, which has supervised the
establishment of training centers and
the development of instructors among
the foremen and superintendents.
Training of the various kinds of
shipbuilders in the yards is accom
plished by putting the men to work
on production jobs, under the super
vision of a yard instructor. This yard
instructor has full charge of gangs
while they are learning. The effi
ciency of a green ^ang under training
will average about 80 per cent of fin
ished workmen.
Yard instructors are skilled me
chanics trained in the teaching
method. This training is given in a
training center, where the mechanic
is given an idea of instructional man
agement, and how to get the instruc
tions across effectively.
The first training center was estab
lished at Newport News. To it were
sent skilled mechanics, selected from
the yards. They were given a six
weeks’ course of training, eight hours
a day. During the last part of this
course they were obliged to spend
forty hours in the actual handling of j
gangs of green men. Yard instructors j
are drawn from a variety of trades, j
such as rivetters, ship fitters, ship
carpenters, caulkers, etc.
Twenty-two plants have sent men;
for training as yard instructors. Two
hundred and sixteen of these menl
have completed their training, and
74 are now in training.
In addition to the training center
established in Newport News, there
are now several others established—
at Hog Island, at Chester, Penn., at
the submarine yard at Newark, N. J.,
and two special centers for the train
ing of electric welders at Schenec
tady, N. Y., and at New York city.
So far thirteen yards have put in
training departments. One yard in
structor can train about 150 men each
year. The per od of training for a
green man varies from two to eight
weeks One yard already has trained
enough yard instructors in the train
ing centers to turn out weekly 300
skilled mechanics within the yard.
In addition to the training of green
men, there exists the problem of tak
ing men who already are skilled in
allied trades, but have never worked
in shipyards, and making them into
shipbuilders. This is called a trade
conversion course, and consists essen
tially of determining what supplemen
tary work a skilled mechanic from the
allied trades must have in order to
give him the necessary knowledge to
do shipbuilding work. Special • in
structors are employed in a number
of plants to meet this situation.
By training foremen and managers,
the shipping board has been able to
develop in a year the building of
wooden ships, which had been a long
lost art, and workmen in many yards
have increased in efficiency more than
25 per cent. “Where we have effi
cient management we have efficient
workers,” Chairman Hurley declared
today. “You can’t expect to have ef
ficient workmen in an inefficiently
managed shipyard, nor can you expect
good results. Our shipyard workers
generally are as fine a body of men
as is engaged in any industry in this
country. They are a patriotic, in
dustrious group, and while in many
yards they are not as efficient as we
would like to have them, they are
learning daily and are increasing their
output. When the history of our
shipbuilding program is written the
American workmen, the men who
really built the ships, will be the
men deserving of any credit that may
be due.”
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FH1NK O'NEILL JOINS NEW
HIKE CUN DIMM
Harry J. O’Neil is In receipt of the
following interesting letter from his
brother, Frank O’Neil, who left Cor
dova recently to enlist and is now
stationed at Camp Fremont, near San
Francisco:
‘‘I got into a machine gun battalion
and it is surely a good outfit. It is
known as a motorized machine gun
company and is something new in the
United States army and different from
a regular machine gun outfit. It is
entirely motorized and each and every
one of us has to be able to take apart
and repair the autos and motorcycles,
so you see we have to go through
a lot of schooling. We also have to
be able to do six miles in one hour
with a forty-pound pack on our back
and consequently we have to be a good
skookum bunch. This is going to be
one of the crack regiments of the
United States and everyone is train
ing hard to hold his place as the bat
talion is now closed to recruits.”
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