Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-02-13 | Page 2 | Naval Workers Protest Order

NAVAL WORKERS mm mm 1 Discharge of Mechanics in Warship Building Declared De-clared "Heartless" WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. TV'-charge TV'-charge without warning of thousands! of navy yard workers, whose services wore no longer required because of tho armament limitation greeniert was characterized Sunday as "extremely "ex-tremely Inconsiderate heart le.13. und Inhuman,' and an act of "broken faith " In a letter sent by William H. Johnston, president of the Inter national Asnoclatlon of Machinists, to President Harding The administration was asked to provide work for the men by takmi; all form of armament manufacture out of the hinds of private contractors contract-ors and plants, by speeding ury plans for the construction of navil auxiliary auxil-iary crafl allowed under the disarmament disarm-ament treaty, and by arrnnglng for the manufacture of supplies for the civil government n the nay yard plants. "We maintain that proper concern by the government for its employee would have anticipated the likelihood of this emergency arising." the I- -ttr said. "Instead it has been singularly sin-gularly lax and apathetic Indeed It has the very arrogance to throw men long in its employ out of service on barely an hours notice All that wc have been ablo to note In a callous lack of Interest In nnd indifference J to the problem so serious to ill workers. work-ers. All wo meet with when we ip-proach ip-proach officials of vour administration administra-tion with requests to take cOnstruo-tlce cOnstruo-tlce action Is Incapacity and chronic absence of rosouree in bringing abou. the Intensive utilization of existlt.g government manufacturing facilities." An agency should be at once established es-tablished in tho navy department, the letter said, to seek and secure work from all other departments and bureaus bu-reaus for the yards