New Britain herald., 1918-05-21
MANUFACTURERS ID FACE WAR PROBLEMS
Connecticut Delegates to Attend
 Atlantic City Convention

For the first time in the history Of the country, the manufacturers of six Of the leading Eastern manufacturing states, New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Delaware, will meet in conven- tion at the Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City, on June 12, for the purpose of discussing problems intimately re- lated to the war
 The convention is called by the manufacturers council of the state of New Jersey, the first organization of it's kind created in the United States and the avowed object of the meet ing, which will be an all day session, with a banquet in the evening, is to create similar bodies, comprised of manufacturers only, in the five states other than New Jersey. from which the delegates will assemble.
 The purpose of these councils will be. as is the purpose of the New Jer- sey council, to secure the fullest CO., operation of manufacturers. in assist ing the governmen ent in increasing the output of essential war industries; in providing the government the labor of which if stands in need, and of otherwise aiding in the speedy win ming of the war
 The leading manufacturers of the principal cities in each of the states mentioned above, have been invited to send representatives to the con- vention and invitations have been extended to the senators and govern ors of the states, to the president, to the secretary of war, secretary of the navy and other cabinet officers and nf11 1oir l- of tI,o o,-t ments, directly engaged in securing or producing the supplies needed by the amy and navy, the shipping board and other interrclated activities.
 Call for Convention.
 The call for the convention, issued by Warren c. King, president of the Manufacturers' Council of the State of New Jersey, states
 "The Manufacturers Council of the State of New Jersey, since it's forma- ton in 191I. has been able to be of service, both to the government and to the manufacturers who are it's members; it has succeeded in solving or helping to solve, many problems directly connected with the prosecu- ton of the war and the effect of the war on the manufacturing indus
 
 reau has been cordially welcomed by government officials and by the departments in Washington, which must have the aid of the manufac- turers that it has seemed fitting there should be invited to the war conven- tion which the Manufacturers Coun- cil is to hold at the Hotel Traymore, Atlantic City, on June 12, the manu lecturers of other nearby states whose wish to help the government is as suredly as great as that of the manu facturers of New Jersey and whose problems are virtually identical.
 Tt is the belief of those representa- tive manufa cturers who comprise the New Jersey council, that the organi- zation of similar bodies in New York Pennsylvania, Mas achusetts, Connec- ticut and Delaware, will be of ma terial advantage to the government and of material advantage to the manufacturing interests of these states. For that reason, the New Jersey council has extended a cordial invitation to the manufacturer of these other states to learn what it has accomplished, to become ac- quained with it's object, and to enter into full and free discussion of the WlSQOI1l Ol llle Ol edC1l of these states forming councils of their own. There can be no doubt but that with the completion of the organization of the six state councils to be comprised of manufacturers only, and to be representative of the entire manufacturing industry in each state, who would come together at frequent intervals, very great | deal of good can be accomplished. 1T believe that this will lead to the l establishment by the several state or l ganization of Washington bureaus, 1 which will place at the disposal of l the government, the entire manufac- 1 turing resources of the several states, 1 and will ultimately lead to a central 1 organization, or a congress of manu- 1 facturers, which will represent the l complete manufacturing interests of i the nation"