The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-04-11
WAR INDUSTRIES
PRIORITY RULES
HA We BIG SCOPE
Include Articles Necessary to the
War and Essential to Pub
lie Welfare
OTHERS TO BE ANNOUNCED
Fuel, Aircraft Equipment, Am
munition, Farm Implements,
Fertilizers Preferred

Washington, D. c., April lore
vised priority regulations, designed tt
assure fuel and transportation to in
dustries necessary to the war and es
sential to the public welfare. were is
sued today by the war industries
board.
A lengthy preferential list. made
public CASTLES dozens of transporta
ton and fuel users as essential
Others, it was announced, will be add
ed from time to time. The preferred
Industries under a plan now in pre-
paration also are to be given prefer
ence in obtaining raw materials and
other supplies.
The priority list is as follows:
Plants engaged exclusively in man
ufacturing aircraft, or supplies and
equipment, ammunition for the Unit
ed States and the allies; army and
navy cantonments and camps small
arms; chemicals, coke. domestic con
sumers, electrical euipment, cleo
trodes, explosives, farm implements
Zero alloys, fertilizers, fire bricks, foof
for human consumption, food contain
ers, gas, gas producing machinery
guns, hemp, jute and cotton bags, in
secticides, fungicides, iron and .stee,
blast furnaces and foundries), laun
dries, machine tools, mines. mining
tools and Equipment, newspapers anC
periodicals, oil retineries (mineral an(
vegetable), oil wells equipment, pub
lie institutions and buildings, pubic
utilities, railways, railway equipments
and supplies, refrigeration, seeds Eek
cept flower seeds bunker coal (nol
including pleasure craft, ships, shil
supplies and Equipment, soap, stee'
plants and rolling mills, tanning
plants, except for patent leather, tan
ming extracts, tin plate, twin (binderj
and rope, wire rope and rope wire.
None Classified NonessentiaIs
1T is proper to say" a statement b!
the board set forth, that the boart
has not undertaken to classify al!
industry as nonessential or at this
time to limit the quantity Of "fue
which any particular industry or plan
shall receive. The board has how
ever, listed certain industries whose
operations of exceptional importance
measured by the extent of their direc
or indirect contribution either to
ward winning the war or toward pro
noting the national welfare, an(
whose industries will be accorded pre-
ferential of coal and coke and alst
in the transportation Of such coal ant
coke by the railroads
This same plan will be followed in
according preferential treatment to
war Industries and pants in the trans
portation of raw materials and SUP
plies reuired by them in their manu-
factureing operations, so that the
may not be delayed or hampered il
complying, with priority orders ISSUED
governing their products.
Two Factors Control
preference list No. | is not com
plete in itself but it will be noted thai
provision is made for certifying add
tional classes Of Industries and alsC
individual plants whose operations
are necessary as a war measure. II
determining what industries or plants
are entitled to be certified, two fac
tors will control:
1.-THE relative urgency Of the users
or purposes for which the product OF
the pant is utilized, and,
"The percent of the product of the
plant utilized in war work, direct o.
indirect, or work of exceptional or nat
ional Importance No plant, very sub
statial part of whose products is no.
of exceptional Importance, can be &C
corded preferential treatment"