Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1941 — Page 4
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MARITIME
CALLED TOO SLOW
His Aids Say New Shipyards |
Critics of Admiral Land and
CHIEFS
Should Be Constructed, Besides Expanding
Present (Third of a series of articles on the
Facilities. emergency Shipbuilding Situation)
By THOMAS L. STOKES
Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, July 25
when President Roosevelt ghipbtiilding program almost
Only three and a half months ago the retired naval | officer had taken a strong position against further expan- |
gion. Now comes the greatly i
the New Dealers who have ©
recently
5.—Rear
doubled.
wereased program, a victory for
at whatever cost to stop Hitler.
~~ They have won the Can the program,
cells for 1417 vessels by the
énd of 1943, he completed on |
time? Some critics say this will take a shaking up of what they regard as tab conservative an attitude in
the Commission, failure to utilize all facilities posgible Admiral Land fn stating his views on April 8,
Was discussing the second expansion in the program since January — a. President Roose- Mr. Stokes velt's order for 212 ships for Great Britain under the Lend-Lease Act “The United States can do the Jabs assigned so far and the expgnsion I have just outlined,” he said, “but to extend or enlarge this program greatly will defend the allimportant objective of obtaining completed ships. of obtaining de-
stroyers and torpedo boats and submarines for the Navy, as well as cargo ships These smaller naval vessels and these merchant ships are now scheduled 1841 and 1042 delivery might What we today is pri mention this pect to see ih pressure for
for
be disastrous. need in rity of objectives! I because I fully exthe coming months still further expan sion
Sincere but misguided persons wi argue that a keel shot ld be laid a down immediately for every vessel sunk Opposes ‘Diluting Brains’ : % i "Any further expansion will be done only at the expense of efficiency and economy and with delay ih delivery of the vessels how ordered and authovized. Any further dilution of shipbuilding brains, whether the skilled and unskilled |
labor in the yards o the ® managerial and professional talent in the office,
battle for more ships which;
delivery ih Any delay in oe
this country |
\ s feoulg
never even got close
aper,
This, critics complain, persistence in a conservative attitude. They say capable men heading responsible companies have of- | fered their has been found for them.
ability vard site offered by a third party could be joined up by the Commission to produce new facilities, assert. Fear More Monopoly
The over-all result, they to intensify monopoly. They cite the contracting far, virtually all of which ig with | big companies in the National Council of American Shipbuilders About 40 per cent of the emergeney program thus far is con{tracted with the Todd Shipbuilding Co, affiliated with the redoubtable | Henry K. Kaiser and the six Western construction companies which built Boulder, Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams. A big stockholder in Todd is Joseph P. Kennedy, former chairman of the Maritime Commission and ex- Ambassa- | jdor to Great Britain.
feel, Is
Admiral Emory 8S. |
Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, beat a retreat | ordered the merchant
ried for more and more ships
{undue |
services and no place
Financial ability here, managerial | there, and a suitable ship- |
they
thus
| | |
Of the rest of the program, Reth- |
lehem is getting the largest shave,
with other big shares going to the |
Newport News Shipbuilding Co, a U. S. Steel affiliate.
Asked ‘All or Nothing’
The Todd-Kaiser an example of initiative finally recognized by the Maritime Commission, and it is argued that this be duplicated on a smaller | scale with other combinations of capital and managerial ability. For 20 years Todd had been a ship repair outfit and had built no ships. Tied into the shipbuilding combination with Todd is an old-
time shipbuilder of long experience, | William 8. Newell of the Bath Iron] Kaiser and the six
Works, and My. construction companies which had to shipbuilding before They proposed to build 60 emergency ships for Great Britain—and on an “all-or-nothing” basis—but
|
combination is
So Ai
Will result in gross waste and in- were turned down in 1930 by the efficiency.” Maritime Commission. They went In order to “dilute shipbuilding|divectly to the British, who surbrains still further, the commis- | veyed their setup and were so well gion intends to add facilit tes 10 ex-| impressed that the Commission was, isting and recondition vards | induced to give them the whole
without autho
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Zing any new vards. |
contract, | More criticized than any one sinlgle act of the Commission was the authorization of the EC-2 type for emergéhey ships, the so-called “ugly ducklings.” which constitute half of the entire number of ships fin the whole program, including ithe recent expansion. These vessels are criticized for their speed. lonly 11 knots, which, it is said, i makes them especially vulnerable | to submarines. Other ships in the merchant program are of 15 and 18 knots, NEXT—Maritime defends its handling of
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