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...pointed out: "Mrs. Roosevelt's eminent husband has crossed picket lines. He crossed them with soldiers in the North American Aviation strike in California last June, to keep the warplanes rolling out. He crossed picket lines with sailors of the Navy last August to end the Kearney, NJ. shipyard strike which was holding up ship production...
Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall, 14-year-old granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, did bottle-smashing honors across the prow of the new U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Pathfinder at a Seattle shipyard...
...hard, building mine layers in a Portland, Ore. shipyard. Said Riveter Leonard Johnson: "I had a tough time, to tell you the truth. I was working on second platform inside ship, riveting angle bars through the wing tank and deck. They didn't have the size rivets I wanted, and there was a new bucker on the other end of them. I never knew when New Year's came. Down in the locker room when we went off shift everyone said 'Happy New Year.' I didn't go out and celebrate. I went home...
...called on the 200,000 welders in the U.S. to strike in protest. Promptly U.S. troops with fixed bayonets and armored cars rolled into the Bay area. OPM's Sidney Hillman, who declared that "no welder need belong to more than one union to work anywhere in any shipyard," sputtered from Washington: "Shocking act of disloyalty." A.F. of L. officials raised their hands in holy horror. Public opinion fell on the welders' heads like a ton of bricks. The strike call was a dud. Only a scattering from a few Pacific Coast yards responded...
...usual, the amateur strategists were wrong. The Navy wasn't planning on any more battleships because it had no place to build them. The ways of every shipyard in the country are choked and due to remain so for a long time. Four months ago Secretary of the Navy Knox pointed out that, if war came, the Navy would probably suspend all work on heavy units to free skilled labor for the production of destroyers, submarines and planes. The Navy is preparing to add many a cruiser in the 10,000-12,000-ton classes. Following the German lead...