Show EY ASKS Y ND FOR BIG y FLEET Is IE Isi jed i Appropriation j d Make llah c U. U S. S First in ill 0 i r Shipbuilding b 4 June junc s. Chairman S Chairman shipping l hoard board ha has the thc of or final a t for Ca s more moc than OO little of r a governments o ship ship- UP the hc I Bins In fg operations operations- which wn will tom com he gal scat United of raising raisin the tho ib ic i work cork nation o to a J st a s sand the thc Amerl American an P. P and Id develop dt din fleet oe from front a nc negligible Jle O e nag nr second Place actual actually Is la lal tI t to than Con Congress Ie already eft leis l S J d need s of the shipbuilding r present Chairman lIu Hurley ly outlines rim as 1111 consideration th th- th c cant can't can can- 11 t take into of contracts or 5 lion or alone will effect a r hI which than 59 The Ther r of r more of or the whole who lol 1111 ess 5 all ml anon be charges only 1 I 3 32 per cent of If r PS t fatal t 1 final expenditure I C f I Tows Tow's u Chairman Hurley HUrle Is done clone t D all letter to Chairman I out oU In do a s J appropriation om om- the House Hom Sl of jO w will w lil have hU b been tn tee let cr effort eLor- country's great reat or In the h b will 11 inbe be shown show In dp dead doad- ld- ld AIh AlJ Al- Al of or ships on the seas sea lit ht t tons ton a deadweight ton J h a cost 1st of 1206 OG a actual cost to th the BOV- BOV ov- ov dieted d. d the for the reasons less ment be c follows as e have ha paid Into the theton 1 ice mt shipbuilders treasury Income antI and ex- ex tid ed States prOm taxes a aggregating re Sio 40 a t vessels ls they eight ton tOil on the ess t eon constructed others have ha paid Equivalent of 30 a ton tOil It t Is Isted s ted d that thit at lea least t 25 5 a dead dead- h ld- ld bt ton has hall been returned to theIn the In- In 7 in this manner b by all ship ship- pers tr erg x Contribute f jj t is 15 5 docs does not include any taxes by br the hundreds of oC sUhl 1 the iho who manufactured manul I the boilers boller the machinery and antI other things which go o tole IO but when multiplied by In JO deadweight tons it Indicates Indicates uw bate nf of S which w hen I tei r from n leaves leave leavea 4 I a i deadweight ton as the actual 1 i to the government go of the rl t Jt lv played an e essential part in tit the e lug lag of the war and which Is now no commercial asset o of the people e laId one of our ton loll freight freight- to the National Shipping corpora corpora- of or New en York for a dead- dead have han received from bt at ton and we Skinner Eddy Shipbuilding cordon cor- cor lion don an offer to bu buy at present 1 cost four ton frel freight freight- ht- ht the Skinner Edd Eddy corpora corpora- Itself Is building We sold one er ton r freighters to tho the Omega whip company of New e York for fort or ora t a deadweight ton and w we have In ed from front another firm an offer to 0 o four ships at the same sarno price t- t Costs h i bon Above I Ib b you ou this picture o of ourn our n nits nets es I have ha confined m myself sel to and figures I c have made notion no noton ton tion of ot the unusual conditions r which 1 our work was planned carried out However er it Is Inter Inter- t to note that the cost of our steel machinery was three times Its 1 II cost coat and that tha t the wages we 0 to o labor Jabor were based upon double rate Also It Is interesting rider In connection with the fore fore- figures fi ares th the fart fact that we expanded Industry tenfold in with priced high materials ender for the handicap of delays which made the work very J 1 In the prosecution of oC our oure we e have ha made man many blunders blunder finally milly when hen we were compelled e e signing gning of or Ih the armistice ud- ud to 10 stop Hop and reverse the ponderous very nu nute we te had been driving at full Cull Ire we founT found ourselves confronted new ww new problems through the mazes hie bleb h we e arc are happy to report that n now see ce our wa way clearly h Go Need N he e i relation Inter of tho the shipbuilding v Mp P operating lO I Is er very veryn aM th the l b n the war tear has Imposed imputed upon both em m cannot safely be adjusted to toJ J I without carefully con considered i by j th the h government at whose call cai al t abandon Uldon the normal limitations o of 1 organization or and adjusted ITes ires e to the abnormal conditions if Moreover Moreo the tho Importance of taro o great Ind to the pros pros- r or of f the thc American People 13 is so 10 f o ih that K the cell n necessity lt for foi establish establish- 5 them CI upon a health healthy commercial la 1 Widely 1 ely r-co r a as a 1 prime or of national policy polio |