The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-09-09
BARUCH ANNOUNCES
NEW WPR|OR|T|ESL|ST
Important Ruling Of War In
dustries Board Includes
All Essential Industries
BASIS FOR EXEMPTIONS

Washington, Sept. "a new pri
orities list of industries and plants
essential to the war or the civil pop
ulation was announced yesterday by
Chairman Buruch, of the War In
, dustries Board. 1t was described as
the master key" governing the is
suance Of priority certificates by the
priorities commissioner of the board
for fuel supply or electrical energy
transportation, material facilities
capital and labor, and as the basis
for industrial exemption from the
draft.
"The inclusion of the industries
and plants on this preference list, u
said the announcement, docs not
operate an embargo against all 9TH
ers, but the effect is to defer the re-
quirements of those on the prefer
ence list shall have been satisfied" +"
Industries have been grouped into
four classes according to their rela-
tive importance. No distinction
however, has been made between
any of the industries or plants with
in any one class and it was explain
ed that no significance is to be at
tached to the order in which they
are listed within any class. The in
dustries or plants under class one
are of exceptional importance anu
include those most vital to the pros
ecution of the war and the public
and their requirments must be fully
met in preference to those of the
three remaining classes.
Fuel for domestic consumption
residences, apartment houses, res
taurants and hotels-is in class one.
In that class also are food, railways
operated by the Railroad Admins
tratlon the army and navy aircraft,
ships and shipyards, war chemical
plants, coal mines and by-product
coke plants, certain public utilities,
ordnance and small arms plants, and
and explosives.
Requirements of those grouped
under classes two three and four
will be given priority over those on
the preference list, but as between
.hese three classes, there is no COM
Dlete or absolute preference proviG-
I'd. Relative Importance of the III. j,
iustries and plants within each
group will be the basis of operation.
Each plant listed in the three last !
'lasses will be required to file with
he War Industries Board before the
lfteenth of each month report of
IS activities during the preceding
month. Failure to comply with this
rider will mean removal from the
reference list. |
The complete list follows:
Glass One: Plants principally
ngaged in producing aircrapt sup
lies and equipment; ammunition
or the United States and the allied
rmies; ordnance and small arms
or the United States and the allies;
hemicals for explosives. ammuni-
ion and aircraft and use in chemi-
al warfare; metallurgical coke and
'y-products including toluol; explo-
ives for military purposes; feed
or livestock and poultry; foods, in
luding cereals and cereal products
meats, including poultry, fish vege-
ables, fruit, sugar, syrups glucose,
'utter, eggs, cheese milk and
ream, lard, lard compounds, oleo-
nargerine and other substitutes for
'utter or lard vegetable oil beans
alt, coffee, baking powder, soda and
east, and ammonia for refrigera-
ion; fungicide, oil and natural gas
or fuel or mechanical purposes (in-
'luding pipe lines and pumping sta