| Show MEN BUSY BUilDING SHIPS FOR U. U S. S A. A Less Less Than One Y Year car Ago Number Employed Was Less Than Dy By Associated Press WASHINGTON Juno June 9 Less Less than thana thann a n year ago there here were not nol men employed In American shipyards Today To Today day there arc are more than hiatt skilled mechanics am and laborers engaged cd in lii building ships and an additional employed in making the engines eng boilers hoiler winches and other machinery machiner I necessary ar to equip them hem This tremendous expansion b by which the United States hopes to put into service a n new now merchant marine that I will rival the time trading fleet of an any naI nation nation na na- na- na I tion in the tho world has lias he been n accomplished in methodical fashion without I an any fuss and feathers but achieving a result that industry long will regard I as one of oC the most brilliant victories I of the lie war ivar It has lias been heen brought about I b by hy the shipping hoard through reco recognition 1 of oC the he principle that hat untrained men can become skilled workmen on only I through competent instruction One of the first tasks of the shipping board therefore was the lie creation o of a division of education and training which has lias supervised the tho establishment establish ment mont of training training- centers and the development development de do of instructors among the foremen and superintendents Training of the various kinds of shipbuilders in the yards ards is accomplished accorn pushed by putting the men to work on production jobs under the lie supervision supervision super super- vision of a yard ard instructor This yard ard I instructor has full charge of gangs angs I while the they are learning The Time efficiency of a green gang sang under tinder training willI will j I average about 80 per cent o oC of finished workmen I TRAINING PUSHED Yarn Yard instructors are skilled meehan mcchan ics trained in the time teaching teaching- method This training is given in a training raining center where the thie mechanic is given an ar anI I I Idea of instructional management and ana i how to get the lie Instructions across er ef The first training center was wag at Newport News To it t t were veri sent skilled mechanics selected from Iron the time yards The They were given iven a six weeks' weeks course couise of training eight hours bonn a da day During the last part of this thim I course tile the they were obliged to spera spend fort for forty hours in the time actual handling o of oC gangs of green grcen men Yard instructors instructor I are drawn from a variety of trades such as riveters ship fitters ship carI carpenters car car- I pen penters tel's caulkers etc I I Twenty two plants have sen sent t men for training as yard instructors of these men have completed their r training raIning and 74 71 are now in training In addition to the tIme training ce center cente ter r established in Newport News there ar are arenow e enow now several others established established-a established established-at at t I Hog Island at Chester Pa at tIm the e submarine submarino yard ard at Newark N. N J J. J ann and I I two special c centers for the training o of I electric welders at Schenectady N. N Y and arni at New York City THIRTEEN STATIONS So far far thirteen yards ards have put in training departments One yard instructor instructor in in- instructor can train mimi about men each year ear The Time period of oC training for COI a agreen agreen green man varies from Crom two to eight eiEhl weeks necks One Omie yard has already trained j I enough yard ard instructors in n the tIne training training train train- in ing centers to turn out weekly COO OJ I skilled mechanics within the time yard In addition to the time training of greenI green I men there exists the time problem o of taking men who are already skilled In allied trades but have never worked d in shipyards ship yards and anti making them into shipbuilders ers This is called a trade conversion course and consists essentially o ot of determining de do- what supplementary work a a skilled mechanic from the allied trades must have in order to give him tho time necessary knowledge to do shipbuilding ing jug work Special Instructors are arc employed employed em em- in a number of plants to meet this situation B By training foremen and managers the lie shipping board has been able to develop In a year rear the lie building of oC I wooden ships which had been a long lost art and workmen In many yards ards have increased In more than 25 5 per cent Where There we have efficient management we have efficient efficient ef ef- ef- ef workers Chairman Hurley declared declared de de- hedared he- he dared today You cant can't exp expect ct to have efficient workmen men in an inefficiently met managed nor nOl can you ou expect good results Our shipyard shipyard shipyard ship ship- yard workers generally are arC as fine a abod bod body of oC men as Is 1 engaged in any Industry industry in In- in this co country The They are arc a patriotic industrious grout group and while in man many maimy yards tile they aro are not as efficient efficient ef ef- ef- ef as af we ve would like Jike to have them they are arc learning daily anti and are Increasing increasing increasing ing their output When the lie history of our shipbuilding program is written the time American workmen the lie men who rea really 11 built buill the time ships will be tho the men deserving of an any credit that ma may bo be duo |
