Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-01 | Page 2 | President at Office of Shipping Board

PRESIDE! II OFFICE OF SHIPPING BOARD 1 ; Leaves Well Pleased When Hurley Tells Him How Things Are Moving. WASHINGTON, Dec. VA. President Wilson today paid a personal visit to the offices of the shipping board and conferred for half an hour with Chairman Hurley. He left apparently well pleased with the way affnirs are going. 31 r. Hurley outlined to the president th'. hoard's plan for speeding construction construc-tion by putting into shipyards double and triple labor shifts and other measures for hurrying the work. The board has .hist arranged for installing electric lighting systems in ah yards, to make night work j possible, and is about to start its campaign cam-paign for obtaining additional labor from I other industries. I The board will use the services of the j committee on informal inn's four-minute ! men. who, speaking in theaters in all tiie j industrial centers, will urge men to enter i the shipyards to render patriotic servir-e to the government. In every big industrial indus-trial center there will be established registration reg-istration offices Where skilled men may register for shipyard service. Skilled shipyard labor is given deferred classification classifi-cation in tli e army draft system, and the board will emphasize that men who drive rivets ami swing the hammer are performing per-forming a dutv as patriotic as that rer- formed by men in uniform, j a committee of six experts wi'J be sent I by the board to Pacific coast yards to study means of speeding construction. ' Three of its members will be eon s true -J tion experts, to be named by the board, ! and three will be prat-thal shipbuilders, i selected by the buildimr committee of the J Atlantic Coast Shipbuilders" association, i of which Homer T,. Fercuson of Newport ! News is chairman.