New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
List of Plants Exempted
From Closing Down Order

WASHINGTON, Jan 1s.-Latc to-
day the Fuel Administrator announced
that a large number OF plants--about
Il thousand in all-doing war work
would be exempted from the fuel re-
striction order Many of the biggest
industrial plants OF the country arc on
the list in one way or another The
ruling assured work for hundreds of
thousands of men.
Besides the makers OF munitions,
army cloth, cotton duck and blankets
exempted in the preferred list issued
last night, the new lst contained the
names Of manufactures and light and
power plants added after protests had
been received to-day.
All the principal munitions plants
Will be permitted to work at full ca
pacity. A. announced last night by
the fuel administration only portions
Of the plants making condenser tubes
would have been permitted to operate.
1t was an official mistake.
All the du Pont powder plants and
thc plants OF eighteen other great COM
panies mentioned in last nights Off
cial announcement as being restricted
to manufacture Of Condenser tubes arc
by the official modincation to-day per-
mtted to run full blast.
TO Exempt Shipbuildcrs
While the list Of exemptions makes
no specific mention of shipbuildinG
plants engaged on merchant ships, the
Shipping Board has received assurances
that all will be exempted from opera
ton OF the fuel order.
All locomotive building plants are on
I the exempted list.
The food administration issued an
order to-day cxempting every sort OF
| food handling manufacturing OF dis
! tributing agency" from the fuel re-
! strictiOn order.
1t was ordered o-day that only one
ice-making plant may operate in any
one place. The exempted plant, how
ever. will be required to furnish its
product to the closed ice plants at pro-
duction cost.
A partial list. by name, Of exempted
manufacturing companies follows:
For the Production Of Steel Plates for
the Emergency Fleet Corporation:
Forged Steel Wheel Company Butler, Penn.
Whittaker-Gles Steel Company Ports
mouth Ohio.
Youngstown Sheet and Iron Company,
Youngstown Ohio.
Allan Wood. Iron and Steel Company, Con-
shohockcn. Penn.
Bethlehem Steel Company plants at Stceton,
Penn, and Sparrows Point, Md
Midvale Steel Company's plants at Coates
Vile and Johnstown. Penn.
I.ukens Steel Company plants at Coatesvillc
and Carnegie, Penn.
Crucible Steel Company plants at Pittsburgh
and Harrison, N. j.
LabelIe Iron Works. Steubenville. Ohio.
Otis Steel Company. Cleveland
Lackawanna Steel Company Buffalo.
Illinois Steel Company. Chicago.
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company, Pittsburgh.
Donner Steel Company Buffalo.
Inland Steel Company, Indiana Harbor,
Ind.
Central Steel and Iron Company, Harris
burg, Penn.
Republic Iron and Steel Company, Youngs-
Brier Hill Steel Company. Youngstown.
Corriaan-M kinney Steel Company, Cleve-
General Electric. Schenectady, N. Y.
Goodman Manufacturing Company, Chicago
Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus,
Ohio.
Pittsburgh Transformer Company Pitts
burgh.
Reliance Electric and. Engineering Company
Triumph Electric Company. Cincinnati.
Westinghouse East Pittsburgh, Penn.
For the Manufacture of Liberty Bond
Paper:
Crane & Co.. Pittsfield, Mass.
Chrome green-J T. Lewis Brothers Com.
pany. Philadelphia
Linseed oil-C. w. II. Carter New York
Building Destroyers:
Fore River Shpbuilding Corporation. Quincy
Mass
Cramp & Sons and Submarine and Electric
Boat Company, PHILADELPHIA.
New York Shpbuilding Company, Camden
n. j.
Newport News Shipbuidng Company. New
port News.
Forgings for Destroyers:
Camden Forge Company, Camden, n J
AlIis-Chalmers. Milwaukee.
Erie E~rgc Company Erie. Penn
Boilers for Destroyers:
Habcock 4 Wilcox Company. Bayonne n. j.
Seamless Tubes, Less Than H.. Inches
in Diameter:
National Tube Company. McKeesport. Penn
Pittsburgh Steel Tube Company PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh Steel Products Company. Pitts
burgh.
Ohio Seamless Steel Tube Companv. Shelby,
Condenser Tubes. 3s of an Inch ir
Diameter, for Destroyers:
American Bras; Company, Bridgeport
Bridgeport Brass Company. Bridgeport.
For the Manufacture of Gas Masks OF
the Box Respirator Type:
Goodrich and Goodyear Tire companies. Ak.
ron. Ohio.
Mechanical Rubber Goods Company. Cleve
land
c. Kenyon Company. Brooklyn
Gas Defence Plant. Long Island (operatec
by Gas Defence Servce).
Astoria Light. Heat and Power Company
Astoria. Long Island
tuiford Manufacturing Company, Provi.
dence.