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...demanded that the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn start proceedings to get Fishgold his job on a permanent basis. He snorted that local draft boards "are certainly not going to defer able-bodied young men under 30 upon the theory that they are irreplaceable when, at the same time, the shipyard in which they are employed is. denying work to equally skilled men who are honorably-discharged veterans because of lack of union seniority...
West Coast shipyard workers quit their jobs in droves...
Watching his workers drift away, a shipyard official said: "I think ultimately our new-destroyer-construction program here will cease...
Going Home. Since Jan.1, more than 16,000 of the 120,000 shipyard and war workers at Portland, Ore. have headed for home and jobs with more postwar security. Result: boomtown Portland reported last week that newspaper ads listing houses for sale had doubled in number, real estate prices had dropped sharply...
...wider and almost half again as heavy as the Essex class carriers, now the first line craft of the U.S. fleets. But the tin-hatted, horn-handed men who built the Midway are accustomed to superlatives. They have long bragged that: 1) Newport News is the biggest U.S. shipyard; 2) its sharp-eyed, terrier-like boss, Homer Lenoir Ferguson, 72, is by all odds the best builder of warships in the U.S., if not in the world...