President John Goefield of the United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters heated a rivet into a glowing thing of beauty. Frank Morrison, Secretary of the A. F. of L., passed it to some workmen. William Green, President of the A. F. of L., picked up a riveting hammer, sank the glowing thing into the keel of what is to be the 10,000-ton Pensacola, first of the U. S. "treaty cruisers." Thus organized labor demonstrated that it knew Oct. 27 was Navy Day, and not merely the opening of Apple Week. The host, Admiral Charles...
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