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SHIP WORKERS WITNESS LAUNCHINGS Sight of Vessels They Have Created Sliding Down the Ways Proves Inspiration to New Efforts No more practical means of inspiring labor to the great task of winning the war has been developed according to information reaching the Department of Labor than through the wartime practice of in ¬ viting the workmen in a body to witness the ship launchings At the big Fore River yards and else ¬ where every effort is made to assure the men who have built the ships an opportunity to see them slip into the water for the men in witnessing the spec ¬ tacle not only come to a realization of the great work America is doing but they take a personal pride iu their own labor that they would not feel otherwise otherwiseIn In the past launchings have been generally cere monies for a comparatively small and select com ¬ pany for in peace times nothing in particular de ¬ pended upon tlie addition of one vessel more or less to the navy or to the merchant marine Now all tliat has changed every ship launched today is a body blow to the enemy Tlie feeling prevails at most shipyards that the workmen partners with the management in tlie building of every ship should be honored guests at the launching
