Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1918-10-12
STATES
WAR LABOR needs
Requirements of Essential
War Industries Make
Threatening Array
WORK AT CAMP
KNOX DELAYED

A rough survey Of some OF the i'm
mediate war labor needs In eastern
States alone is given below. In birds
eye form Il shows the effort and self
sacrifice which must be made to keep
the war production on a level with
the demands OF the military program.
Every shipyard on the Atlantic coast
Is in urgent need Of additional men,
particularly skilled workmen, 10 get
out the ships necessary to maintain an
uninterrupted flow OF supplies TO
France.
The nitro powder plant in West
Virginia must have twenty thousand
men steadily employed in order to fin
ish construction by January 4. only
1900 are now on hand. The plant is
required In order that II may ship 62o,-
900 pounds OF smokeless powder a day
to France before the spring offensive.
In Maine, New Hampshire and Yer
mont, there is a demand estimated any
where from 5000 TO 10000 men to get
out aeroplane spruce, shipbuilding ma
terial and other timber for war work.
Massachusetts,. Connecticut. and
Rhode Island are filled with munition
factories and are short approximately
5000 men.
In Now York State, the American
Locomotive Company. with plants at
schenectady and Dunkirk, manufactur-
ing locomotives for France, is badly
/ handicapped for lack OF common labor
The Interior Storage Depot at Science
tady Is likewise short OF labor. as is the
Aluminium Company Of America, at
Messina.
Jersey Shell Plants.
In New Jersey 5000 men will be
found necessary TO MI labor shortages
in she'll loading plants alone.
In Pennsylvania several steel nils
have had TO shut down part OF their
plants for lack OF labor.
/ Delaware and Maryland are fllled win
war industries, a number OF which need
more men for maximum output.
The United States Employment ser
vice in the past six weeks has sent
/ 1900 men to war projects at Norfolk
Va. These projects need approximately
/ 1000 more men. In addition to this
/ Vircinia's needs include large powder
bag loading plant OF the duPOnts, badly
/ in need Of men: the Norfolk port ter
minal. short 1000 men; and numerous
other industries. including shipbuilding
plants. are suffering.
North Carolina has one new camp al
Fayetteville which alone needs from
5000 10 10000 men. Il has also several
other camps and war projects where
scheduled production is threatened Dy
/ lack OF labor.
Camp Knox Held Up.
work at Camp Knox Is held up because
OF a labor shortage estimated az 1U,VOO
South Carolina has the great Charles
| ton port terminal, which snouia en-
ploy about 1850, and has about sOoO
| 10000 men are needed for camp JACK,
son Immediately. At this camp $40 oul
OF 1000 skilled carpenters are working
as common laborers because tle coih-
mon labor work must be done nrAt
The state OF Georgia requires 4'OOu
men for the picric acid plant al BRUINS
wick alone. ,-,,
In Alabama there is the Air Nitrates
CORPORATION at Muscle Shoals, together
with various other contracts assoclat-
ed with It. requiring to maintain a
force OF about 10000.
Louisiana has the New Orleans port
terminal, requiring thousands OF men.
Arkansas has Camp pike and the new
picrlc acid plant at Little Rock. Camp
pike alone needing nearly 10000 men.
The dupont plant in Tennessee should
maintain a working force Of nearly 3o.-
600 men, that number has not yet been
attained.
In Ohio. aside from the well known
war activities there are two new nj
trate plants being constructed that, To-
gether, will require 5000 or 10000
men, none Of whom are now in sight.