The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-16
BIC BOOM IS DUE.
The United States VIII See Bet
ter Business.
That Is Belief of Government
Officials Now.

washington, Nov. - N.thfn q rev
weeks the United States will undergo
Q big boom, according to the forecast
of leading government officials here
today. They anticipate no hard
times or panic during the process of
graduating industry back from war to
peace.
So confident is President Wilson
that the foundations for reconstruct
ton are firm that ne will not hurry in
his recommendations 20 congress for
legislation needed for reconstruction.
Pending his appearance before con-
gress-which will probably await his
annual message-the president may
place in the hands of a commission of
experts, members of the house and
senate appropriations committees and
secretaries Baker and Daniels the
work of arranging details for infiltra-
ton of returning soldiers into indus
try.
The war labor board, one of the
agencies created by the war, will be
retained, it is said, for a long time.
To Stabilize Labor.
The government will follow a policy
or stabilizing labor and industrial
conditions as thoroly as possible in
cancelling contracts for munitions and
war materials.
1t was strongly intimated today that
the first contracts to be cut off will be
SAAOoC WLiiCA are uSlIlS IldleTldlS LOT
which there Is large commercial de-
mand both at home and abroad, TAX
ing into consideration at the same
time the problem of redistribution of
labor.
Bernard Baruch, chairman of the
war industries board, revealed this
governments policy on reconstruct
t1on today with the announcement
that the war industries board will be
the clearing house for the cancella-
ZION OF all government contracts.
Supervise the Work.
The facilities sections of the war
industries board, will supervise this
work. Contracts will actually be can
celled by those departments in which
the contracts originated. The war in
dustries board does not make contracts
and never has done SO. The war and
navy departments, the shipping board,
railroad administration and other gov
eminent agencies which make con-
tracts with manufacturers, will imme-
diately notify the war industries board
upon cancellation of orders. The war
industries board will then Immediate
ly relocate materials to commercial
. enterprises. The war labor board will
at the same time direct the redistribu-
ton of labor whenever such action is
necessary.
The facilities section will perform
the reverse function of the require
mentS division. Since the war indus
tries board was organized the heads
of all the various sections and repre-
sentatives of the war department.
navy, shipping board, railroad admin
istration, etc, have held conferences
each morning in the war Industries
board building. At such conferences
requirements for materials were pre-
scented. In this manner. bidding of one
department against another was pre-
vented.
The war industries board would
then allocate materials accordingly,
shaving the estimated requirements of
one division or another to make the
best use of availa BILE material.
The facilities section will be con-
stituted by the heads of the various de-
partments and will perform just the
reverse function.
In cancelling contracts, the first en-
deavor will be to release the materials
and labor from factories engaged in
making shells. explosives, and those
commodities which are strictly NUM-
lions. AS soon as the war industries
board Is notified materials and men
released will be Immediately made
available for commercial industry
which can best absorb/them.