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Show OREGON SHIP BUILDING CALLS FOR LABOR Thousand of Men nt Illgli Wages Oaii Find Employment. The secretary of the Stato Editorial Edi-torial association of Portland, Ore., Informs us that Oregon's effort to dp her part in tho building of stcol and wooden ships for tho war is seriously seri-ously crippled through lack of labor. Latest authentic Information gathered gath-ered points to tho necessity of employing em-ploying at opco nearly lp,00D mou In tho ahjpbuldtnB business at Tort-land, Tort-land, and betwppn4two and threp thousand in tho yards outside. WIUi cpntract alrpady ot and certain cer-tain tq bo placed, Jn the, near future, t 1 stated by jho shipbuilders (hat from 20,000 to "25,000 men should be omployed by thn close of this year, or early,next year. Tho work is on hand to give this employment and tho domand for ships is growing greater every day, Tho development of an Industry of this magnitude so suddenly has ro-sultod ro-sultod In drawing practically all of tho available men within Immediate reach, and already tho shipbuilders of tho ntato are urging laborers from all parts of tho West to toko positions posi-tions in their plants. Appoals are coming from national officials and al tho leading business men of tho East for all seaboard state to concentrate their supreme enorglos upon the program of building build-ing .ships. This Is deolarod to bo the greatest duty controntlng.the nation today and. onvory hand jt Is admit-ted admit-ted frankly, despite tho optlmfstlo statements made of 'the position "of tho allied forces, that unless ships aro built, by America at "once absolutely abso-lutely beyond tho present program tho effectiveness of the United1 States In tho European war wllt-bo. largely rcducod. Germany Is counting Implicitly Im-plicitly upon destroying more ships than aro built tg prevent America, from participating extensively In the war. Tho submarine program la making moro rapid progress than the shipbuilding program. For thesa reasons the federal government Is putting tho building of ships as the primary patriotic duty of tho, people of the country, and urging every person per-son who can aid In the work to take It up with as much reverence and as much sense of duty as If they wore enlisting In tho army. America's food, munitions, arms, and men cannot reach Europo without with-out an adequato supply of ships. Best authorities declare theso should be built of steel and vfood as rapidly as the forces of tho country can be marJ shalled for the work. i In tho emergency cvory man who has any mechanical or artisan skill' whatever ,1s being adapted to some part of ship construction, whercvpr' b.e desires to work. It has been necessary nec-essary to teach labor to do classes of work It has never undertaken beJ fore. All the facilities for such In' structlon are being provided by tho ship yards, the government and state, and men aro having an opportunity to take up lines of employment never presented before at 'tho boat wages that have ever been known In th9 Pacific 'Northwest and perhaps tho country. |