Show OREGON SHIP BUILDING GALLS CALLS FOR LABOR tile secretary ot of the state editorial association ot of portland oregon informs us that Or egons effort to do der her part in the building of steel and I 1 wooden ships for the war is seriously I 1 crippled through lack of labor latest authentic information gathered points to the necessity ne ot of employing at once nearly men in the shipbuilding business at portland and between two and three thousand in the yards outside with contracts already let anu ana certain to be placed in the near future it is ia stated by the shipbuilders ship builders that fromi from to tcp men should be employed by tile the close of this year or early next year the work Is on hand to give this employment and the demand for ships is growing greater every day the development of an industry of this magnitude so suddenly has resulted in drawing practically all of the available men within immediate reach and already the shipbuilders ship builders ot of tile the state are urging laborers from all parts of the west to take positions in their plants appeals are coming from national officials and all tho the leading business men orf of the east for all seaboard states to concentrate their supreme energies upon the program of building ships this is declared to he be the greatest duty confronting the nation today and on every hand hadid it is admitted frankly despite the optimistic optimist is statements made of the position of the allied forces that unless ships are built by america at a pace absolutely beyond the present program the effectiveness of the united states in the european war will be largely reduced germany is counting implicitly upon destroying more ships than are built to prevent america from participating extensively in the war the submarine program is making more rapid progress than the shipbuilding program for these reasons the federal government Is putting the building of the ships as the lie primary patriotic duty of the country and urging every person who can aid in the work to take it up with as much reverence and as much sense of duty as it if they were enlisting in the army americas food munitions munitions arms and men cannot reach europe without an adequate supply of ships dest best authorities declare these should be built of steel and wood as rapidly as the forces of the country can be for the work in the emergency every man mail who lias has any mechanical or artisan skill whai whatever ever is being adapted to some part of ship construction wherever he desires to work it has been to teach labor to do classes of work it has never undertaken before all tile facilities for such instruction are being provided by tile the ship yards the government and state and men are having an opportunity to take up lines of employment never presented before at the best wages that havo have been known in the pacific northwest and perhaps the country |