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...growing importance of the West and resolved, so to speak, that it would itself "go West and grow up with the country." So for years we have been calling national attention to all kinds of news unfolding in the West-from Upton Sinclair and Harry Bridges to Henry Kaiser, from Ham-and-Eggs and Hetch-Hetchy to Bonneville Dam. And percentagewise we now have more readers on the Coast than any other front-rank magazine...
...Maritime Commission had spent a lot of money to make sure that workers got cheap, comfortable transportation from downtown Portland, Ore. to three Kaiser shipyards. One million dollars was paid for two ferries which in gayer days had taken San Francisco vacationists across the Bay to the World Fair. Now, for 10?, a worker could buy a round-trip ferry ticket to the Swan Island yards or the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. Twenty railroad cars were purchased from the Southern Pacific. These offered a round trip to the Vancouver yards...
...Kaiser workers would not use the ferries or the railroad. Of the 93,500 employes, 15,356 still drive their cars to work, more than three-quarters of them with supplemental ration cards which they got by telling the ration board there was no other way of getting there. The trains ran with about 3% of their seats filled...
Meanwhile the ferries, fitted out with such conveniences as breakfast bars, chugged up & down the Willamette River with an average 5% load. The Boilermakers' Union refused to "force" its members to use this Government-provided transportation. The Kaiser Co. said nothing, for fear of losing workers. The Maritime Commission brought no pressure on unions, company, or the ration boards. Tires and gasoline burned...
...plan seemed to have a chink as wide as a Flying Fortress. What was to prevent laid-off workers from getting jobs in other shipyards outside the Puget Sound area (such as Henry Kaiser's yard at Vancouver, Wash.)? Also, many smaller plants in the area are understaffed, pay more under the WLB freeze than Boeing...