WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:04.001 Industry on parade. 00:00:07.001 --> 00:00:14.000 A dictatorial review of events in business and industry. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:22.000 Produced each week by the National Association of Manufacturers. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:30.001 The New York Waterfront. 00:00:30.001 --> 00:00:33.001 Industry on parade stops off at the New York Waterfront. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.001 For a look at some of the new ideas being adopted by the 00:00:36.001 --> 00:00:38.000 great American shipping industries. 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:42.000 Let's visit the Hudson River Pier of the Moore McCormick Lines. 00:00:42.001 --> 00:00:45.001 And see a few of the innovations in cargo handling methods 00:00:45.001 --> 00:00:47.000 adopted during the past few years. 00:00:47.001 --> 00:00:52.001 When a cargo liner is about to sail, the bustle of activity is much like that to 00:00:52.001 --> 00:00:54.000 be found when a passenger liner leaves. 00:00:54.001 --> 00:00:59.000 Except of course, that it's goods instead of people that converge on the 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:00.001 pier from all parts of the nation. 00:01:01.001 --> 00:01:06.001 The use of pallets and forklift trucks has relieved the hard working longshoremen 00:01:06.001 --> 00:01:09.000 of much of the back breaking labor that formerly was his lot. 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:14.000 The cases and bags are stacked on the pallets, which then can be shifted about 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.001 the pier or hoisted right into the ship's hull. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:29.001 But this cargo is going into a steel container called a cargo van first. 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.001 The cargo vans are proving especially useful in the safe shipment of small cargo 00:01:34.001 --> 00:01:37.001 that's more susceptible to pilferage or damage in handling. 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.000 The vans are scientifically and snugly packed, so goods can't shift or break 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.000 loose, either when being loaded or during the ocean voyage. 00:01:50.001 --> 00:01:57.001 Not only does it save storage space aboard 00:01:57.001 --> 00:02:01.001 ship, but in a cargo van a shipment is kept under lock and key 00:02:01.001 --> 00:02:03.000 until it reaches its destination. 00:02:10.001 --> 00:02:17.000 In days gone by, and even today in the ports of some nations, cargo is manhandled 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:21.001 aboard ship, trundled up gangways, then down into the hulls on the backs of men. 00:02:22.001 --> 00:02:25.001 Tortuous, expensive business compared to methods like these. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:42.000 Only U.S. style speed, service, and efficiency have allowed American shipping 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:46.000 firms to meet foreign competition with its vastly lower wages. 00:02:46.001 --> 00:02:50.000 The same sort of know-how that created the wide array of American industrial 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:54.000 products we see moving out to ready markets everywhere in the free world. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:59.000 For the best in the world, you must have the best tires, and not even Joe Stalin 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:05.000 has any doubts about where they'd be. 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:11.001 After the 00:03:11.001 --> 00:03:17.000 tires come barrels of salt cod, all ingeniously stowed away according to a plan 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:18.001 carefully thought out in advance. 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.001 One day spent in watching the loading of a cargo liner gives a good idea of the 00:03:23.001 --> 00:03:27.000 tremendous scope and variety of production here in America. 00:03:30.001 --> 00:03:37.000 It's a real 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:41.000 achievement on the part of Moore McCormick and other land, sea, and air transport 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:45.000 industries that they've been able to keep the goods moving as fast as our 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:46.001 farms and factories turn it out. 00:03:56.001 --> 00:04:01.001 Meet a couple of young men named Lloyd and F. Briggs-Dalzel, who for the past 00:04:01.001 --> 00:04:06.000 nine years have directed the operations of one of the biggest tugboat companies 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:07.001 in the busiest harbor in the world. 00:04:08.001 --> 00:04:12.000 The scene is, of course, New York and the dispatcher's office 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:13.001 of the Dalzel towing company. 00:04:13.001 --> 00:04:18.001 From this nerve center are controlled the movements of 38 tugs that ply hundreds 00:04:18.001 --> 00:04:23.000 of miles each day, back and forth, over the North River, the East River, the 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:26.001 Lower Bay, and the rest of this busy port attending to a variety 00:04:26.001 --> 00:04:28.000 of highly essential duties. 00:04:34.001 --> 00:04:39.000 Calls from customers flood the office of the dispatcher, who must deploy the 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.001 fleet of tugs by radio telephone in such a way that each tug can move from one 00:04:43.001 --> 00:04:46.000 assignment to the next with a minimum of lost time. 00:04:46.001 --> 00:04:51.000 Since calls for tugs come in at all hours of the day and night, and there are 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.001 frequent time changes, keeping the organization running 00:04:53.001 --> 00:04:55.000 efficiently takes some doing. 00:04:55.001 --> 00:04:59.001 This captain has been dispatched to the side of an incoming freighter that needs 00:04:59.001 --> 00:05:04.000 plenty of skilled assistance in reaching a North River pier in the face of a 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:07.000 brisk wind and powerful, tricky tidal currents. 00:05:14.001 --> 00:05:19.001 Just one of the daily chores of these workhorses of the harbor, without which 00:05:19.001 --> 00:05:24.001 many of the port's facilities could not be used, even by medium-sized ships, like 00:05:24.001 --> 00:05:26.000 the one here being docked. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:39.001 Whistle signals allow ship and tugs to work smoothly together. From here, our tug 00:05:39.001 --> 00:05:44.000 may be dispatched across the Hudson to New Jersey to handle barge loads of the 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.000 coal that's brought into New York City almost exclusively by this method. 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:52.000 Coal for homes, for factories, for steam and electricity. 00:05:57.001 --> 00:06:02.000 Then perhaps help another ship put out to sea, or lead a disabled vessel to the 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:06.001 shipyard, or help put out a fire or haul heavy cargo. Unimpressive, little craft, 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:09.000 but what would New York do without them? 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.001 History shows that we Americans have attained the highest standard of living in 00:06:19.001 --> 00:06:24.000 the world. The competitive American system, based on freedom for the individual, 00:06:24.001 --> 00:06:29.000 has encouraged us to develop new and better raw materials, and to improve our 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:30.001 buildings, equipment and tools. 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:37.000 As a result, we now produce three to four times more per hour than we did in 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:40.001 1850, while we enjoy nearly twice as much leisure. 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.000 We can have an even higher standard of living in the future by increasing our 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:49.000 productivity, which will mean more and better products for all. 00:07:00.001 --> 00:07:01.000 Thank you.