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...more than seven months the WLB had put off a decision on an old grievance. Since July, West Coast aircraft workers had been demanding an increase in pay commensurate with shipyard scales. Last week the dispute boiled over in a costly mass demonstration by workers in Seattle's two big Boeing plants. Work on Flying Fortresses stopped for three hours, was slowed down for longer...
Since that day, things have changed. Last week young (29) Lieut. David Hugh Conklin, the yard captain, could boast that his repairmen had long been giving shipyard service to any ship that could make port. Most of the yard's patients are Canadian craft, but ships of other countries also go there for overhaul. In Derry's shops and drydocks they can get repairs for anything, from broken optical equipment in binoculars and range finders to torpedo holes in their rusty hulls...
Manpower. More & more department stores will turn to self-service as the manpower shortage grows, more & more small retailers will close up as their one or two employes drift away to other better-paying jobs, or the owners themselves find they can make more money in a shipyard. Already turnover in jobs is fantastically high, some stores reporting 40-50% as against a normal turnover of 10%. Only hope of maintaining sales staffs at all is to employ elderly and middle-aged saleswomen, hire students on part-time...
More than a year ago he signed an agreement making A.F. of L. sole bargaining agent for the handful of shipyard workers then employed in his yards. Since then total yard employment has jumped to 150,000-a huge army of dues payers who are hungrily eyed by rival C.I.O. shipbuilding unions...
...Brown brothers started in the construction business (Colorado River Mansfield Dam and Corpus Christi Naval Air Station). In mid-1941 came a lucky accident: the Browns heard that a small Houston shipyard was going to lose its subchaser contract because of money troubles. They asked for the job and got it. Within six months the Browns bought and cleared a 156-acre tract, built a small shipyard of secondhand materials, rounded up a working force, purchased supplies and parts and launched the first subchaser. The Navy promptly gave the Browns more subchaser orders plus a contract for a medium-sized...