The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-06-13
TO AID KENOsHA FACTORIES
Manufacturers of State Will Meet at
Milwaukee on Wednesday for First
Conference With New Representa-
tive of the U. S. Government.

August Fl. Vogel, of the Pfster and
Vogel Leather Company of Milwau-
kee, has been appointed director Of
Regional Industrial District, No. II,
embracing all of Wisconsin up to the
north line of Chippewa, Taylor, Lin
coin, Langlade, Oconto and Marinette
counties, the portion of the state
above that line being districted with
Minneapolis. District II includes
all the great industrial interests
Of Kenosha
On Tuesday and Wednesday the
members Of the Wisconsin Manufacture
ers' Association will meet in Milwau-
kee and at that meeting Mr.. VogeI and
secretary of the regional committee,
Chester f. Rohn, will lay before
the manufacturers the purposes Of
the war industries board in making
this division Of the country into
twenty districts.
The arrangement is intended to
obviate the necessary Of manufacturers
going to Washington or sending repre-
sentatives to obtain contracts for gov
eminent work and also to equalize the
placing Of these contracts to the
congestion of the transportation sys-
TEN of the country
The resource and conversion divi-
sion of the war industries board will
have absolute control over all the
manufacturing resources Of the country.
Each of the twenty regional industrial
sections Of the country will have a
representative in Washington and thus
the war industries board will have
only twenty men to deal with,
representing all of the industrial re-
sources of the country.
Regional District No. IL will be d.
vided into sectional districts, each
with it's local committee, the chair
man of which will serve as a mem
Der of the regional industrial commit
tee which will hold it's meetings as re-
quired in Milwaukee.
The sectional committees will be re-
sponsible for the collection of funds
from manufacturers in their several
districts, the gathering of industrial
statistics for the war industries board
and the placing before manufacturers
Of calls for bids issued by the several
purchasing departments of the govern
ment. It is expected that sectional
committee will be formed in Kenosha
following the meeting in Milwaukee.
In addition to the permanent secre-
tary in Milwaukee, there will be a
permanent secretary in Washington,
subject to the direction Of Chairman
Vogel of Regional Committee No. II.
This will undoubtedly be Frank J.
Schmitt, now in charge of the Milwau-
kee Industrial Bureau in Washington,
as manager. His duties under the new
arrangement will be to obtain specif-
cations and drawings from all purchas-
ing branches of the government, and
to see that Wisconsin industries are
fully recognized in the placing of
government contracts.
This regional industrial committee
Of the resources and conversion section
Of war industries board at Washing
ton, will be divorced entirely from any
County Council of Defense in the state.
It's headquarters will be located in
Milwaukee merely for convenience
and because of its proximity to the
coverings boards for the ordnance
and quartermasters departments in
the Chicago district.