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Show j SHIPBUILDERS I EXEMPT AS LONG AS KEEP AT VORK WASHINGTON. Nov. M. -Plans to insure the retention of shipworkers at the vital task of shipbuilding were announced an-nounced today by Provost Marsha! General Gen-eral 'rowder. after conferences with officials of-ficials of the navy department and the emergency fleet corporation. liegula-tious liegula-tious for the seeond call for the national army will provide a special qualified list for shipv.-orkers of military age, and thev will be excused from service in the national army as long as they are employed em-ployed on government ship projects. Mever IJloonifield. head of the industrial indus-trial service of the shipping board, said the war department had agreed, also, to I return to shipbuilding plants' any of their workers who have been drafted. Lists of these men will be made up bv the yards for approval by the fleet corporation, cor-poration, and as fast as their names are sent in the men will be released. General Growder 's bi ief statement dealt only with exempting men to bo called in the future. He said that exemption ex-emption ends whenever a man not nctu-aav nctu-aav employed on ship construction and listed as needed by the feet corporation or the navy department. These lists will bo checked weekly so as to keen ckso track of the exempted men, and reports will be made to General Crow-der Crow-der nionthlv. V nder the provost general a ruling men of military age, idle through strikes, could be ailed to t he colors immediately, immedi-ately, but Mr. Jiloonifield said the general gen-eral feeling was that the right to strike shoiuvi not be taken from the men. |