New-York tribune., 1918-09-29
United War Workers
Need Auto Men
For Overseas

Two hundred experienced automo-
bile men a month for service over
seas is the call Of the Y. NJ. c. A. War
Council and the knights of Columbus,
.two of the seven organizations which
nave Joined forces for the united war
work campaign for $170,5OO,O0O in No
vember. This tax on the skilled labor
of the automobile industry is required
by the rapid expansion of the Ameri-
can forces abroad and vacancies caused
by expiring contracts. casualties and
the like.
OF the one hundred men required
every thirty days by each organization
sevcnty-five should be drivers and the
others mechanics, men capable of keep
ing the rolling stock at maximum of
efficiency even to the extent of making
one truck from the parts Of two she'll
struck machines. The Knights Of Co.
lumbus Committee On War Activities
announces that the organization has
nearly two hundred trucks in France
at the present time, and is constantly
increasing this total in order that the
fighting men may not lack for home
comforts.
The Y. M. C. A.. with more than six
hundred trucks, has hundred out of
commission because necessary repairs
cannot be made by the undermined
staff. Others are idle because of the
shortage OF drivers.
10 facilitate the recruiting Of the
man power of this keystone division of
the service which the knights Of Co.
lumbus, Y. M. c. A, American Liberty
Association, Salvation Army and other
organizations are contributing as an
essential part of the military machine
an advisory committee of prominent
men IN the automobile industry has
becn. formed and is cooperating en-
Enthusiastically
5. A. Miles is chairman Of this COM
mlttee, and serving with him are l.. r.
Afford, Arthur j. Baldwin, A. G. Baton
elder, Emlen S. Hare. David Beecroft.
Colonel Charles Clifton, George a.
Grlffiths, George NJ. Hendee, F. W. A.
gesper David Jameson }. d. Kenner-
dell, Charles A. Stiger, c. G. Sinse-
Willis. of the Y. NJ. c. A. War Cou,.-
Gil, is secretary to the committee, Clar-
ence M. BALDWIN. formerly manager of
the specification department OF tho
Packard Motor Car Company. Of New
York (Brooklyn branch), is his assist
ant and interviews ali volunteers al
347 Madison Avenue.
Just how serious is the situation
which these committees have to face"
sald MIR. baldwin yesterday, ",nay be
realized when one knows tnat the bin
ion cigarettes, the millions of cigars and
packages of chewing gum, millions OF
pounds of sugar, flour and The like. all
are carried by motor transport from
the forty divisional headouarters in
France to the camps and the trenches
Where hghtng men are stationed. When
the transport system breaks down the
work OF the various organizations i
hampered, and the boys must 20 WITH
outthe comforts which they desire and
to which they are entitled.
hundreds Of tons of supplies are
handled every week. The man at the
wheel Of a motor truck soon becomes
one of the most popular individuals
in France. He is abl. to enjoy all the
thrills Of the big game, for he alone
OF all the volunteer workers who are
sent overseas may be sure that at some
tlme he Will be able to get as close to
the front as he desires
Men who are too old TO fight. men
who couldn't fight because of some
marked physical disability. men who
want to be able to say when the vic
tory is won that they did their part
these are the volunteers whom the
motor transport division seeks to re-
cruit. Volunteers must be prepared to
make sacrifices. Probably the kind OF
men who are needed never have known
time when their services were in
such demand and the possibilities of
large financial return so great. They
must be willing to put these opportuni
ties behind them. For what? For their
expenses while in service, plus an allow
ance for their families sufficient for
them to live while the breadwinner is
at the front"