Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-21 | Page 3 | Commandeered Yard Completes 20,000 Tons

COMMANDEERED YARD COMPLETES 20,000 TONS WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. American shipyards whose construction was commandeered com-mandeered by the government completed last week 20.000 tons of merchant shipping. ship-ping. The shippping board announced today to-day that this brought their total output since the commandeering order was issued, is-sued, August 4. li j) to twenty -eight vessels ves-sels of 5U.O0O tons capacity. With speed ing-up processes under way. tonnage ton-nage soon will begin to come from ( he yards at a much faster rate than that, shipping board officials predicted. The first ship of the government's great fleet of nearly 1000 vessels, for which con-i con-i tracts have been let, will be completed in the Skinner iv Eddy plant at Seattle No-I No-I vember 24. 7t is of steel, of SS00 tons i capacity and designed speed of eleven !. knots. The first of the wooden ships will i be launched about December 1.. The emergency fleet corporation's board of trustees took up today the subject of a general labor policy and will work out within a few days plans for increasing the number of shipyard employees.