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Show SHIP BUILDING BEHIND SCHEDULE WASHINGTON. OcL 27. With a view to speeding up Hie government's great steel shipbuilding program now admittedly about twenty ships behind schedule, Rear Admiral Capps, goner- K al manager of the omorgoncy fleot cor- j poration, last night called upon every ateel shipbuilder on tho Atlantic coast r to. meet in Washington Monday with representatives of the fleot corpora-tion, corpora-tion, tho department of labor, the N American Federation of Labor and the navy department. The principal question to be discussed dis-cussed is that of labor and an effort will be made to outline some plan to attract men to tho ship yards, which need about 300,000 more workmen to carry through the work undertaken nd projected. Many other questions will be discussed and Chairman Hur- I ley of tho shipping board said he re- ! garded the conference as involving IH more important possibilities than any other meeting of builders held since the shipping board was created. oo Stockings were first worn In tho eleventh century "Before that cloth bandages wero used on Uie feet. |