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This was a taste of what the Government would dish out on V-J day and after. War workers were confused. In Philadelphia, shipyard workers asked when their jobs would end, learned that their bosses did not know. Some plants planned a two-day holiday-so that employes could celebrate while the companies try to discover Washington's intentions...
Running to a car parked nearby, the painters found a note signed by August De Mont, 37, an ailing shipyard worker. "I and my daughter," it said, "have committed suicide." De Mont had had an appointment with a doctor that morning to take a basal metabolism test. He had not gone. With his five-year-old daughter, who had cried to go along just for the ride, he had driven straight to the bridge...
Like a horse whose race was run and won, the speedy Bethlehem shipyard on Hingham Bay, 17 miles from Boston Common, was coasting to a stop. It had had a short life, and a happy...
...Shipyard Worker Talks Back
...TIME [June 4] "West Coast shipyard workers quit their jobs in droves." One reason is because an overzealous press scares the shipyard worker with its unnecessary stories about what is going to happen to shipyards and shipyard workers...