Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-12
EASTERN STATES
WAR LABOR NEEDS
Requirements of the Essential War
Industries Make Threaten
ing Array.

A rough survey of some OF the i'm
mediate war labor needs In eastern States
alone is given below. In birds eye form
il shows the effort and self sacrifice
which must be made to keep war pro-
duction on level with the demands OF
the military program
Every shipyard on the Atlantic coast
is in urgent need of additional men,
particularly skilled workmen, to get
out the ships necessary TO maintain an
uni 1terrupted flow of supplies to France.
The nitro powder plant IN West
Virginia must have twenty thousand
men steadily employed in order to finish
construction by January !. Only 1000
are now on hand. This plant Is required
in order that it may ship b25, 900 pounds
of smokeess powder a day to France
before the spring offensive.
SHORTAGE OF wooDsMEN.
In Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont there IS Il demand estimated any
where from 25.O0O to 10000 men 10 get
out aeropiane spruce, shipbuilding ma
terial and other timber for war work.
Massachusetts. Connecticut and Rhode
Island arc filed with munition factories
and are short approximately as 900 men.
In New York State, the American
Locomotive Co, with plants at Scirnec-
tady and Dunkirk. manufacturing loco
motives for France il badly handicapped
for lack of common labor The Interior
Storage Depot at Schen ctady IS like
wise short of labor, as is the Aluminium
Co. of America at NessIna.
JERSEY SHELL PLANTS.
In New Jersey 35 600 men will be
found necessary TO fill labor shortages
In shell plants alone.
In Pennsylvania several steel mills
have had to shut down part Of their
plants for lack of labor
Delaware and Maryland are filled with
war industries. number Of which need
more men for maximum output.
vIRGrkrA's NEEDS.
The United States Employment Service
in the past six weeks has sent 5000 men
TO war projects nj Norfolk, Va These
projects need approximately 10000 more
men In addition 10 this Virginia 9
needs include a large powder bag loading
plant of the du Points. badly in need OF
men, the Norfolk port terminal. short
1000 men. and numerous other in-
dustries. including sh,pbuilding plants,
are suffering.
North Carolina has one new camp at
Fayetteville which alone needs romr
5000 to 10000 men. II has also several
other camps and war projects wher
scheduled production i threatened by
lack Of labor
CAMP KNOX HELD Up.
In kentucky urgent construction work
at Camp Knox is held up because OF a
labor shortage estimated at 10000.
South Carolina has the great Charles
ton port terminal, which should employ
about 1900 and has about 5000; To-
600 men are needed for Camp jackson
Immediately. vt this camp 800 out OF
] 900 skilled carpenters are working a.
common laborers because the common
labor work must be done first
The State OF Georgia requires 4.00C
men for the picric-acid plant at Bruns-
wick alone.
In Alabama there Is the AIR Nitrates
Corporation at Muscle Shoals, together
with various other contracts associateo
with II. requiring 10 maintain force
OF about 10000.
NV oRLEANs FoRF TERMINAL.
Louisiana has the New Orleans Port
terminal. requiring thousands OF men
Arkansas has Camp Pike and the new
picric-acid plant at Little Rock, Camp
Pike alone needing nearly 10000 men
The dn Pont plant III Tennessee shoulo
maintain working iorce OF nearly
but 5000 men, that number has moi
been attained
In Ohio, aside from the well-know1
war activities, there are two new nitrate
plants being constructed that together
will require $1,000. or 10000 men, ncnt
of whom are now In sight,