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type, a far higher type than those included in the tonnage the Government has to dispose of. 
Left to themselves, our shipowners would gradually supplant the small and relatively crude 
tramp type of ships by larger vessels of the liner type, of greater speed and of greater cargo- 
carrying capacity. Left to themselves, they would build many more passenger and cargo 
liners of a superior class, of a type of which we have too few. And left to themselves, in the 
fullness of time they would turn to the building of the finest ships engaged in that great pas- 
senger trade across the Atlantic Ocean. 
The promise for shipbuilding in this billis very great. The bill in a measure comes 
just as closely home to you as it does to us. If the bill is enacted in complete form, I believe 
that ten years hence will see the United States firmly established as the foremost ship- 
building nation in the world, not necessarily in the bulk of its product, not necessarily in 
the aggregate of the amount of tonnage launched year by year, but in the quality of the 
tonnage and in the value of that tonnage combined. 
I am glad to see, Mr. President, that so many members of this Society are comparatively 
young men, with their years of achievement before them. You have in this great measure 
pending in Congress an opportunity to enter upon a professional career of the very greatest 
honor and the very greatest profit and advantage. I know that, and I can speak of it, be- 
cause I see many of the shipping executives—I see all of them in the course of a brief time. 
I can say to you with authority that this is not a shipowner’s bill, but it is a shipbuilder’s bill 
equally. We have a chance as citizens, all of us—shipbuilders possibly more than shipown- 
ers, because the shipbuilders have behind them a great mass of labor, which politicians 
respect because of its votes, a great mass of labor that ought to be heard here on the issue 
now pending in Congress. Boards of Trade and Chambers of Commerce in the country, from 
the National Chamber down, have spoken; the seamen on our ships, the American seamen, 
have spoken for this bill; but I am very much disappointed that as yet no voice, so far as I 
have heard, Mr. President, has come from the thousands of workers in our shipyards. And 
my message to you, gentlemen of the shipbuilding industry of the United States, is this— 
that you lose no time in organizing the intelligence and the self-interest of your workingmen, 
and putting that power behind the legislation which Representative Edmonds and his col- 
leagues will soon be championing in the lower house of Congress. Let shipyard labor be 
heard, and heard at once. (Applause. ) 
THE PrESIDENT:—I cannot forbear to say, gentlemen, that it is a rare thing for us to 
have such an eloquent address as we have just listened to from Mr. Marvin. As Captain Dollar 
said tonight, he was a worker and not a talker, and with most of us the training in oratory 
has been slight, so that our speeches as a rule lack that elegant finish which we have just had 
so much delight in listening to from Mr. Marvin. 
The hour is getting a little late now, and I see that the committee has returned, and I 
will ask Captain McAllister to come forward and read the resolutions which I presume that, 
with their usual efficiency, they have prepared. 
Captain MCALLISTER :—Mr. President and gentlemen, the committee unanimously de- 
cided to submit this for your consideration: 
Resolved, That the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, at a special meet- 
ing held in New York on May 19, 1922, having discussed the bill now pending before the 
