The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-09-09
new PRIORIT|ES
LIST OF PLANTS
IS ANNOUNCED
Baker Makes Trip Across on
Transport Carrying U. S.
lroops-on Business.

WASHINGTON. Sept "a new
priorities list of industries and plants
essential to the war or to the civil
population was announced today by
Chairman Baruch, of the War Indus
tries Board. 1t was described as the
master key governing the issuance
OF priority certificates by the Priorites
Commissioner of the board for fuel
supply or electrical energy. transpor-
tation. material. facilities, capital and
labor and as the basis for industrial
exemption from the draft
Industries have been grouped into
four classes according to their rela-
tive importance. No distinction, how
ever, has been made between any Of
the industries or plants within any one
class, and it was explained that no
significance is to be attached to the
order in which they are listed within
any class.
The complete list follows:
Class PLANTS principally engaged
in producing aircraft, supplies and
equipment, ammunition for the United
States and the allies: ordnance and
small arms for the United States and
the allies; chemicals for explosives,
ammunition and aircraft and use in
chemical warfare; metallurgical coke
and by-products. including toluol;
explosives for military purposes; feed
Y. for live stock 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 compounds, oleomar-
garine and other substitutes for but
ter or lard. vegetable oils, beans, salt,
coffee baking powder. soda and yeast.
and ammonia for refrigeration; fun
gicides, oil, and natural gas for fuel
or mechanical purposes Including
pipe lines and pumping stations).
Toluol (gas plantsp ships, other
than pleasure craft or vessels not
built for the United States or the
allies. or under the license OF the
Shipping Board ...
Steel plants plants producing solely
steel ingots and castings by the va
rious processes domestic consumers
of fuel and electric energy for resi-
Dental consumption, including homes,
apartment houses. residential flats.
restaurants and hotels, coal mines, ar
senals, cantonments and camps of the
army and navy yards.
Railways operated by the United
States Railroad Administration; main
tenance and operation of ships, eX-
Guiding pleasure craft. not common
carriers, and maintenance of public
buildings used as hospitals or SANTA
RUINS.
included in Class 2.
Glass 2-Plants principally engaged
in producing locomotive or travelling
cranes, rolling and drawing copper al
Toys, coke not otherwise CLASSIFIED and
listed, ferro-alloys, machine tools and
wire rope; blast furnaces producing
pig iron; steel rail mills (producing
rails over so pounds per yard).
Construction work of the War and
Navy Departments in embarkation
ports, harbors, Notifications, flood pro-
lection, operations. docks, locks. chan
-[nels, inland waterways and in malnte-
nance and repair of same; mines pro-
ducing metals and ferro-alloy min
erals street railways. electric light
ing and power companies, gas plants
not otherwise classified.
Telephone and telegraph companies.
water supply and other general utili-
ties; railways not operated by the
United States excluding those operat-
ed as plant facilities.
Plants in Class 3.
Glass 3-Plants engaged principally
in producing food not otherwise list
ed. not including soft drinks, confec-
tionery and chewing gum, ice mining
tools and equipment, equipment and
supplies for producing or transporting
oil or gas for mechanical purposes, F!
iron and steel chains, electrical equip |
ment, explosives not otherwise listed, !
tin plate and small or hand tools for
working wood or metal
Fuel and electric energy for domes-
tic consumers not otherwise listed. !
steel rolling and drawing mills not
otherwise listed, maintenance of pub
lie buildings or other than consumers !
not otherwise listed, steel rolling and (
drawing mills not Of those used as ,
hospitals and santa RUINS.
Laundries in Class 4.
Glass 4-Laundries, plants engaged
principally in producing and manufac
-turing hemp. jute and cotton bags,
manufacturing chemicals not other
wise listed, medicines and medical and
surgical supplies. fertilizers, fire brick,
gray iron and malleable iron, castings,
food containers, insecticides and fun
gicides. soap, tanned leather and tan
ming extracts.
Cotton and wooden textiles, includ-
ing spinning, weaving, binder Irvine
and rope; plants engaged exclusively n
in manufacturing boots and shoes.
Plants engaged exclusively in manu-
featuring pulp and paper. cotton com