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White Ribbon, Volume 24, Issue 284, 18 February 1919, Page 5

Milk-drinking stupyaid workers of Seattle arc for .’Ol pci cent, of ,ij| the ocean going tonnage completed and delivered to the Cnitcd States Shipping Hoard during the first five months of this year, despite th»' fact that this |M>rt is 3000 miles from the 1 steel mills. No shipbuilding port on the Atlantic did even half as well as Seattle, though the Eastern yards are almost next door to the steel mills; Seattle, in fact, stands as the* savour of the Shipoing Hoard programme during America’s first year of the' war. Milk-drinking Seatt'c, remote from the steel mills, was setting the pace for the entire world in cargo ship construction, when the old established beer-drinking port-, of the Atlantic Coast were wadding around trying to get started. Seattle’s record of 20J per eent. of all the' cargo tonnage delivered to Cncle Sam the first five months of the year is ’.he answer to the argument that ships cannot be built in “dry” territory, according to the Seattle plants’ men in overalls.—“ Seattle Times.”