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...school offering intensive training for employment managers and welfare workers of ship-yards and munitions plants will be opened at the University on April 22 under the supervision of R. W. Kelly, Director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston University will co-operate with the University in giving this instruction, which will be along the same lines as that offered at the University of Rochester at the present time. A third school will be opened at Washington University, Seattle...
...England as in America, there has been complaint of lethargy in ship-building. A valuable result of the frank statement as to submarines and ships lately made in the House of Commons by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Eric Geddes, has been the centering of public opinion and official effort on the speeding up of ship-building. It may well have the like effect in this country. This is a case where clear knowledge of the facts is essential to the right prosecution of war work...
...true that since January 6 of this year there has been no single week in which the total losses of British ships have been equal to the average weekly number since the ruthless submarine warfare began. It is true also that Germany's threats of destroying British trade within a year have not been fulfilled, or anything like fulfilled. Nevertheless the figures now given as to the world's shipping show that the loss by submarines is serious; that the new shipping launched is not keeping up with the losses; and that the submarine will be a continuing menace until...
...there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is obtained." But so far is he from intending disparagement of the United States in comparison with the United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended on their exertions, but that even at this late date they do not seem fully to realize the seriousness of the situation. --Boston Herald...
...time that issues be squarely faced. Mere resolutions of loyalty cannot conceal the selfish interest of the war-workers' strike. In dealing with this problem the Government cannot afford to pussy-foot. Complete control of our ship-yards may be the answer. It may even be necessary to utilize the draft to secure a full working force for each war industry. Men in Uncle Sam's khaki drawing $30 a month may find military discipline sufficient incentive to keep...