Word: shipyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Oakland, Calif. came a pertinent note on women in industry. To avoid a truck, a bus full of shipyard workers ground to a sudden teeth-jolting stop. Instead of yelling at their driver, in line with the time-honored practice of bus riders, the passengers jumped out, bawled the devil out of the truck driver for getting in the way of their girl chauffeur...
Things stirred when the President toured U.S. war plants last month, spent more than an hour in the Higgins yards, left impressed. Upshot: a fortnight ago the President directed WPB, the Maritime Commission and the Army to find some use for Higgins' abandoned $10,000,000 shipyard-and find it fast. First result: the huge plane order...
Besides this staff, Higgins has some plant, some materials and some promises. The plant includes a $100,000 shipyard structure which could be used for an aircraft layout room and office building; the materials are a three-year supply of lauan teakwood and pine lumber for plywood; the promises are that the War Department will supply most of the needed machinery. A. J. expects no labor shortage, plans to hire 80% women (50-50 white and colored). Lastly, he has a bagful of tricks which have already helped him win the Army & Navy "E." Samples: To fill a rush boat...
...weeklies (distributed free at the plant gates) merely extend McKinnon's parochial publishing formula: they print almost nothing except news about the personal doings of shipyard and aircraft workers. Though they devote a page to intramural sports, they did not mention the World Series. Worker-correspondents contribute items and cartoons at 5? an inch. Some 25 mechanics, jib builders, lathe operators and the like have become columnists, complete with bylines and photographs...
...best guess was that he was plain tired of being needled. Like a bear with bees buzzing around its noggin, he had struck out wildly. His cronies were agreed that he was not thinking of N.M.U. or any other union; he was just plain mad-at newspaper talk about shipyard loafing, at union squabbles between Joe Curran's N.M.U. and the Seafarers' International Union...