Milford chronicle., 1918-09-13
PRIORITY LIST OF
INDUSTRIES OUT
Divided Into Four Classes-GOyerns
Flow of Basic Elements Essential
To Needs Of War Program

tries and plants that will serve to
govern the future flow Of basic indus
trial elements essential to the war
program. Under the terms Of the
list, which supercedes all previous
lists. the industries of America are
divided into four great classes for
preferential treatment by the govern
ment. 1t virtually amounts to a list
of essential industries, and in that re-
spect the first list Of its kind issued
by the government.
The new classification will serve as
the basis for industrial exemption
from the draft, and, according TO the
announcement of the war industries
board, may be regarded as the gov
erning factor in the distribution OF
labor, capital facilities, material and
transportation and fuel.
The industries end plants grouped
under Glass 1 are only such as are Of
exceptional Importance in connection
with the prosecution of the war. Their
requirements must be fully satisfied
preference to those of the three re-
naming classes.
Fuel for domestic consumption
residences, apartment houses, restau-
rants and hotels-is in Class /. In
that Glass also are foods, railways
operated by the railroad administra-
tion, the army and navy, aircraft,
ships and shipyards, war chemical
plants, coal mines, and by-product
coke plants, certain public utilities,
ordnance and small arm plants, am
munition and explosives.
Requirements Of Industries and
plants grouped under Glass 2, and
shall have precedence over those
not appearing on the preference list.
AS among these three classes, how
ever, there shall be no complete or
absolute preference.
The division into classes is for the
purpose of presenting a composite
picture of the relative Importance of
the industries and plants embraced
within each group. 1t is not intend
ed that the requirements OF Class
shall be fully satisfied before supply
ing any of the requirements Of Glass
8, or that those of Glass shall be
fully satisfied before supplying any
of those of Glass 4 The classifica-
tion does, however, indicate that the
industries and plants grouped in
Glass 2 are relatively more important
than those in Glass 3, and that those
in Glass 3, are relatively more import
ant than those in Glass 4. The COM
plete list follows:
Glass I.
Plants principally engaged in pro-
ducing aircraft, supplies and equip
ment, ammunition for the United
States and also for the Allies. chem
icals for explosives, ammunition and
aircraft and use in chemical warfare,
metalurgical coke and coke by-prod-
ucts, including toluOl, yplosives for
military purposes, feed for livestock
and poultry, food, including cereals,
and cereal products, meats, including
poultry, fish, vegetables, fruit, sugar,
syrups, glucose, butter, eggs cheese,
milk and cream lard, lard compound,
oleomargerine, and other substitutes
for butter or lard, vegetable oil, beans,
salt, coffee, baking powder, soda and
yeast and ammonia for refrigeration;
fungicides, oil and natural gas for
fuel or mechanical purposes, includ
ing pipe lines and pumping stations;
tuluOl gas plants, ships, other than
pleasure craft or vessels not built for
the United States or the Allies or
under license of the shipping board;
steel plants, plants producing solely
steel ingots and castings by the var
ious processes, domestic consumers
of fuel and electrical energy for res
idential consumption, including homes
apartment houses, residential fats,
restaurants and hotels, coal mines,
arsenals, cantonments and camps Of
the army and navy yards, railways
operated by the United States railroad
administration, maintenance and Oper-
alton Of ships, excluding pleasure
craft, not common carriers and main
tenance Of public buildings used as
hospitals or sanitOriums.
Glass 2. .a,r,.. j,
Plants principally engaged ''''
ducing locomotiTTON and
rolling and q
%iss Sper oiassie SogPS ee to all stud nro- G1 %
S.asan macaine tog or travelling cranes; lsS the
Iirnaces pfHe ps.o, y conner, brass anu met
mills lpSof%lns e,l.ss coke not other am
per yaIol alloy aS listed, ferro alioys, pel
Wal or " 81. 5 wire rope; plasii pie
s,s Aas,on ~ o3nS s mig iron; steel l, T~,' y,
oochs' lodnelnS Ssails over fifty lps,, &c
Ways, aduclhss ctioon work OF sne en-
Sa--o il11ranartments IN euiSe els,s u, q,
49, Jaw harbors, fortinca ncaeleas, - -
sieSs,Forts' ,l,snnels, inland Waeoi y
,l,s,slocksi e,.....is....Anance and Iepe-.a -
/Fffno ...1,s ~ producing mesah's eve vs
SCIs fse; Lnins -,iners; street Ialtrss I.,iss.
So AliSg liogSting and power eo%psifd %nIpesifed; c
'$eKo sn hs'-d and otherwise .,sa cl..s,,i Mes. b
g5s ans plae's and telegraph S SoTlV Iil1e gem t
telePhon,nr oa,,rnIv companies any any ,o,nerated I
water rrsilities; sIRii railways. lcd,Dg aO5 those
srai - United States, .,sssas s4Ssu0
Dy DlySsrated as plant lsSs'A'
OiSso snor,ncipally in pro.
Plants sosd sst not Otherwise ssstS, ssss'tionery
incluehsnSw incl Chewing gum; Ice, ,,osnt minld and sup
plies for p1S for mechanical ,..l psTpSplip5 EQUIP
oil or sast steei chains, elecsriftSo tcols s fer
iron and aaxDIosives or hand nd, too5' and elsc-
ment, eARssd Rgood or metal Tue, ',rnoses s9a not
working nsrgy ~ for domestic poTRloss pSoIllog and
othsTl%ls0 otlne mills not os1srwaiif 1Silaings athei
maintsSnsnS'Su mai. sSosS used as hospitals anu -
itoriums.