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Show oo WM Ml TO 110 1 9 BUUI Tho following statement from Wal-tor Wal-tor S. Gifford, managing director of tho Council of National Dcfonso, has boen wired to tho chairman of the Utah State Council of Defense (and to all state chairmen of councils of defense) de-fense) for release to afternoon papers of Thursday: j "The workers that are going to j build tho nation's ships are scattered across the United States. Our immediate imme-diate problem ls to carry lo them tho ' message that to win the war our first need is ships, and to build ships our first need is labor. We mus have the j best artisans in the United States. We I must have, tho skilled, steady man, ma-1 ture in character and perhaps in years, who is willing to move his family from a cherished homo and break up comfortable com-fortable habits and fond associations for a new abode; who" Is willing to make these sacrifices because ho realizes real-izes that the success of this nation and tho allies is at stake and only his work, earnest and enthusiastic, can bring an early victory to the great cause of liberty. To reach these men and inspire them to patriotic effort is the particular task of tho state council of defense with their five thousand local lo-cal councils covering all the important industrial centers in the United States. They are peculiarly fitted for this work. They not onlyi reach into every factory, but they come into personal contact with skilled labor. It will bo their duty to rouse every competent artisan in the country. The states have already entered energetically Into the campaign. Before it is over we intend to have not only 350,000 workmen ready to serve in the shipyards, but so many more than that that tho nation can select the best; that as the need for workers grows tho yards will fill with a band of steady earnest toilers, putting their hearts and their muscles into their jobs for the sake of their country." oo |