Various
entries 1920 to 1925
Friday-July
16, 1920
Steamer Fallie
towed the Steamer Enterprise from the Ways. Both boats are sold and are
going to Mexico to tow oil. I hate to see them passing out this way,
they were both lost in the Gulf.
January 15,
1921 strike on at the Ways, they are asked to take a reduction of 17
1/2%, the old rate of $6.60. August 27, 1920
November 16,
1921, wages reduced to 57 1/2 cents per for carpenters and caulkers-30
cents for laborers, they were getting $1.00 per hour.
High water
December 25, 1921- 33 ft. 8 in., floated the Steamer Swan off the Ways
and the Steamer National on the second yard, cylinder timbers covered.
Wages advanced
to $6.60 Saturday September 23, 1922 again on May 21, 1923 to $7.00.
Closed down at
the Ways July 23, 1924 and again April 1924.
Friday March
20, 1925 - Steamer Ranger towed the Old Tom Dodsworth away. Raymond
Horner, March 23, 1925 and then the Boaz. This was our last look at
these boats, they were good ones and I'm sorry to see them passing out,
they seem like old Friends.

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