The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-09
A PRIORITIES LIST
Glass One Gets First Preference
on Fuel, Power, Etc.
Classes 2, 3 and 4 Stand To-
gether on Equal Footing.
ALSO BASIS FOR EXEMPTIONS
Men of Draft Age Necessary to
These Industries May Stay.
No Embargo Against Industries
\
Not Included.

Washington, Sept "a new priori-
ties list of industries and plants es-
sential to the war or the civil popula--
ton has been announced by Chairman
Baruch of the war industries board.
1t is described as the master key"
governing the issuance oflpriority GER
tificates by the priorities commissioner
of the board for fuel supply or cleo
trical energy, transportation, material,
facilities, capital and labor, and as the
basis for industrial exemption from
the draft.
"Tbe inclusion of the industries and
plants on this preference list said
the announcement, "does not operate
as an embargo against all others, but
the effect is to defer the requirements
of all other industries and plants until
the requirements of those on the
preference list shall have been sat
isfied"
Placed in Four Glasses.
Industries have been grouped into
four classes. No distinction, however,
has been made among any of the in
dustries or plants within any one class.
Fuel for domestic consumption-resi-
dences, apartment houses, restaurants
and hotels-is in class 1. Require
ments of those grouped under classes
those not on the preference list. but
as among these three classes there
is no complete or absolute preference
provided. Relative Importance of the
industries and plants within each
group will be the basis of operation.
Industries Must Report.
Each plant listed in the three classes
will be required to file with the war
Industries board before the 18th of
each month report of it's activities
during the preceding month. Failures
to comply with this order will mean
removal from the preference list.
The complete list follows:
Glass 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; metallurgica1 coke
and by-products including tuloul; ex-
plosives for military purposes; feed
Tor livestock and poultry; food, in
Guiding cereals and cereal products:
meats. including poultry, fish, vegeta-
bles, fruit, sugar, syrups, glucose. but
ter, eggs, cheese, milk, and cream,
lard, lard compounds, o1eomargarine
and other substitutes for butter or
lard, vegetable oil, beans, salt, coffee.
baking powder, soda and yeast and
TeIrlSeTaL1On.
cides, oil and natural gas for fuel or
mechanical purposes including pipe
lines and pumping stations); tuloul
(gas plants; ships, other than pleas
ure craft or vessels not built for the
United States or the allies or under
license of the shipping board; steel
| plants; plants producing solely steel
| 1ngots and castings by the various
| processes; domestic consumers of fuel
| and electric energy for residential con-
sumption, including homes, apartment
| houses, residential flats, restaura nts
and hotels, coal mines, arsenals, can
| comments and camps of the army and
1 navy yards, railways operated by the
United States railroad administration
maintenance and operation of ships
excluding pleasure craft, not common
/ carriers and maintenance of public
buildings used as hospitals or sanitar-
iums.
| Glass plants, principally engaged
In producing locomotive or travelling
cranes, rolling and drawing copper
brass and other copper alloys, coke
| not otherwise classified and listed
ferro alloys. machine tools, and wire
rope; blast furnaces, producing pig
| iron; steel rail mills, (producing
rails over fifty pounds per yard)
construction work. of the war or navy
| departments in embarkation ports
harbors, Notifications, flood protec.
ton, operations, docks, locks, chan.
nelS, inland waterways, and in main.
tenance and repair of same; mine:
| producing metals and ferro alloy min
erals; street railways, electric lighting
and power companies, gas plants no
otherwise classified, telephone anG
telegraph companies, water supply
companies and like general utilities
railways not operated by the United
States, excluding those operated a.
plant facilities.
Class 3-PlantS enga Ped Driucipa II,
in producing food not otherwise listed
not including soft drinks, CONNECTION
cry and chewing gum; ice; mining
| tools and equipment; equipment ant
oil or gas for mechanical purposes
iron and steel chains; electrical
equipment; explosives, not otherwis,
listed; tin plate; and, small or hant
tools for working wood or metal; fue
and electric energy for domestic con
sumers not otherwise listed; steel roll
ing and drawing mills not otherwis,
listed; maintenance of public build
ings, other than those used as hos
pitfalls and sanitariums.
Glass 4-Laundries; plants engaged
principally in manufacturing hemp
jute and cotton bags; MANUFACTURER,
chemicals not otherwise listed; medi
cines and medical and surgical sup
plies, fertilizers, fire brick, gray irol
and malleable iron castings, food con
tainers. insecticides and fungicides
soap. tanned leather and tanning ex
tracts, cotton and wooden textiles in
Guiding spinning, weaving and finish
ing, cotton and wooden knit goods
textile machinery. binder Irvine an,
rope, plants engaged exclusively il
manufacturing boots and shoes; plant
engaged exclusively in manufacturin
pulp and paper; cotton COMPRISING
plants engaged principally in pro
ducing newspapers or periodical
which are entered at the postoffic
as second class matter; plants pre-
serving. drying, curing. packing an
storing tobacco but not for manufac
1 turing and marketing.
Final Hearing on X. C. S.