SHIPBUILDING.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 2

SHIPBUILDING.

New York,. May 8. "Rivalry and enthusiasm"—these, in the words of Mr. Charles Schwab, who yesterday witnessed at the Sew York Shipbuilding Yard at Camden (ISFew Jersey) the launching of tho 5,548-ton steel steamship Tuckahoe, 27 days three hours after the keel was- laid,, aretho incentives which he plans to apply in maintaining tho powers of endurance of the vast army of workmen engaged m carrying out America"* fihipbuilding programme.

Mr. Schwab, after the ceremony, explained how these incentives' are being' utilised.

We Jvave prizes (he said) and the- less tangible but quite as potential incentives of proclaimed championsliips for riveting gangs, pile-driving squads, and others groups. Graphic charts are made which show at a glance how each yard is producing. The effect of this is to perfect, the team work, first in groups comprising the working force in each yard, and finally in the yard itself. The Pacific coast just now is making the best record, but I, am looking forward to a spurt along the Dela-' ware River that will carry this district to the front. ~ Immense crowds watched the ceremony. The 12-year-old daughter of the chairman of the Shipping Board broke a bottle of champagne over the. bow and named .the vessel, which, amid humcane cheers, slid gracefully into the Water.