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MSS q Sehwahb's Formu la for His Sueeess New Chief of Shipbuilding Program Has a Simple Recipe and Wants All Shipyard Managers and Workers to Copy It UCCESS.. of *= the. \ 'Charles. Mi, S Schwab brand can be defined in 'two words: enthusiasm, rivalry. For this, there is the statement of the new director general of the Emergency Fleet corporation himself. Furthermore, these two words sum cause the site of their yard to be known in the future as Victory island rather than Hog island. Later in the same day, in finishing an inspection of the Sun Shipbuilding yard, Mr. Schwab pointed out that "virtually the whole secret of my success in handling big up what Mr. Schwab considers the twothings may be summed up in the two essentials in hold- ing production. at a maximum. His success in trans- lating govern- ment ship con- tracts into actual vessels will de- pend, according to Mr. Schwab, upon the, Geeree to; which he can in- still these essen- tials of his own success into the half million men orsonow at work on the new ship- building program. Oke The recipe for the Schwabian type of accom- plishment was dis- closed at the end of a busy day. The recital of the events: of ° -that day seemed to bear out Mr. Schwab's belief in what can be accomplished by his formula. He had witnessed, and delivered an address at the the launching of the TUCKAHOE in the quick time of 27 days after her keel was laid. The workmen at the plant of the New York Ship- building Corp. have had both qual- ities of the formula in mind when rush- ing the ship through to completion. Whatever they lacked in enthusiasm was vociferously in evidence at the close of a short address by Mr. Schwab which was punctuated with "boys, give it to them! Put your shoulders into it! Keep up the good work, and--down with the kaiser!" <A little while later at Hog Island, Mr. Schwab aroused a similar demonstration of enthusiasm when he urged the workers by their efforts to A TEAM OF MUTUAL ADMIRERS--E, N. words--enthusiasm, rivalry. You can't get men to endure extraordinary labor unless you arouse enthusiasm. You Gait get them to go a swift pace unless the man who tries to arouse them to such effort is himself the setter of the pace. Rivalry in the various shipyards goes hand in hand with enthusiasm. We have prizes and the less tangible but quite as potential incentives of proclaimed cham- pionships. The effect of this. is to produce team work, 'first = im. ime groups comprising the working force in each yard, and finally in the yard itself." i: es One of Mr. Schwab's confessed am- 247 HURLEY AND C. M. SCHWAB bitions for years has been to be the largest shipbuilder in the company. In -1904, when he organized the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. to take over the properties of the old United States Shipbuilding Co., he embarked for the first time upon a path that not only brought him to the position of the larg- est American ship- builder, but won him his present post as_ director of the largest shipbuilding _ or- ganization in the world as well. The scattered yards he purchased were put upon an efficient basis, and when the war opened Mr. Schwab was in control of around 40. per cent of the ship- building capacity of the country. His success in this field paral- leled his develop- ment of the Beth- lehem Steel Co., which he_ took over as a_frun- down property and transformed into one of the largest independ- ent steel works in the country and the equal and fi- nally the peer of the Krupp works in Germany. In the steel business, Mr. Schwab is an optimist and consistently extended his properties at a time when others were practising caution. The part his ifnmense steel works and_ shipyards have played in promoting the cause of the allies Lord Kitchener was only too glad publicly to acknowledge. That similar approval is being gained in this coun- try is evidenced by his selection as the man to put the final winning touches on the shipbuilding program. * * * At the recent Cincinnati meeting of the National Foreign Trade council, (Concluded on Page 259)