UNION ORGANIZERS

Southland Times, Issue 24880, 21 October 1942, Page 5

UNION ORGANIZERS

Admiral’s Condemnation (Rec. 7 p.m). NEW YORK, October 19. Four pet hates for the duration are organizers, profiteers, typewriter strategists and “needle boys,” Rear-Admiral Emory Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, told the Investment Bankers’ Association. By organizers he explained he meant union organizers. “As far as they are concerned,” he added, “for the duration my opinion is that they might be shot at sunrise.” Of profiteers Rear-Admiral Land declared: “We will get them if they don’t get themselves.” He advised the typewriter strategists to let the President and the military experts handle the war. Rear-Admiral Land did not elaborate on the “needle boys.” He said the United States was building three ships daily and would be producing four daily in January if the steel was available. “The United States will need 20,000 licensed seamen and 100,000 unlicensed seamen by next year,” he said. “The United States has 241 shipways and 3600 ships contracted to be built, of which 1098 have been delivered. Rear-Admiral Land gave a warning that because of the longer nights the submarine menace would be progressively worse during the winter. “We can get on top of the submarine menace and maybe ameliorate it, but we can’t lick it,” he said.