The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-08-28
LABOR DEMAND AT
PlCRIC PLANT IS
SLOWLY BEING
FILLED

ment, II. NJ. Stanley are doing every
thing in their power to secure the
labor to keep essential war indus
tries IN Georgia going, is shown by
the TACT that following the Govern
or's proclamation of the twentieth
calling upon all county and municipal
authorities and the county Councils
OF Defense to aid to the utmost the
Employment Service to furnish with
IN a week, as demanded by the War
Department, five thousand labors
and mechanics for the completion of
the Government picric acid plant at
Brunswick
The Governor on Saturday sent a
telegram ia the Sheriff and chair
man of the Council of Defense of
every county in Georgia and the
mayor of seventy-five cities and
towns urging them and every loyal
citizen to do everything in their pow
er to aid in sending to Brunswick
quickly the men needed to enable
the War Department to complete the
plant, on which may depend not only
the success of our armies but the
very lives of our soldiers. Further
evidence of how seriously the stu
alton is considered by the Governor
and Director Stanley is given by
fha ~{ 4
ing on Saturday a proclamation
making the Work or Fight" Act eff
fective on September first, and of
Director Stanley in rushing the
printing of instructions for the en-
forcement of the act, from which so
much is rightly expected in securing
labor for making munitions, harvest
ing crops, and other essential in
dustries.
The statment of the War Depart
ment that the mammoth plant, on
which probably $1O0O000, has al
ready been spent, would have to be
= abandoned at Brunswick and erected
in some other state unless the need
ed five thousand additional men
are provided by Georgia within a
week, and the splendid efforts OF
/ the Governor and Director Stanley
and his employees throughout the
state, have resulted in the sending
OF nearly one thousand. men to
Brunswick during the past week, and
as the urgency of the need and their
PATRIOTIC duty is realized by the
people of Georgia, they will res
pond so unanimously that the five
thousand additional men will be at
work at Brunswick within another
week or ten days, thus saving for
Georgia great industry that, after
the war, will be operated permanent
ly as a fertilizer material and dye
stuff factory giving employment to
thousands, and, at the same time,
performing patriotic service to our
country and our Soldiers of value
beyond eStlllldtlOn.
The wage scale at the picric acid
plant has been raised until, with
the free lodging and abundant food
at cost furnished by the plant, the
workers make more money than is
possible in any other industry. New
quarters have been erected and
furnished fcr six thousand men.
The restaurants have been pronounc-
ed superior to most of the better ho-
tells and restaurants in the cities For
twenty-five to thirty-five cents.
meal can be purchased that is better
than can be obtained for double the
money in most restaurants or hotels.
Many office workers who live in
Brunswick eat in the plant restaur-
anats in preference to eating at
. home, and this is true of all from
manager to clerks. The water sup
ply is entirely from artesian wells.
absolutely pure and germless and I'M
limited in quantity, and is piped to
every point for the convience of the
wcrkmen. Every dormitory has
Showerbaths for the men, and all
living and eating quarters are
screened from flies and mosquitoes.
1t is true, also that there are remark
ably few mosquitoes at the site,
which has little fresh water nearby
and faces on the saltwater barber.
Jhc location is high and DIV and
the sanitary and health conditions
are as nearly ideal as nature and
a far-secing government cau make
them.
Since the urgency of the need and
the vital nature of the plant, which
manufactures non-eXplosive ingredi-
ents for explosives, the final in
gradients making it explosive being
added in France, were present to the
authorities and citizens of Georgia
by Governor Dorsey and Director
Stanley, the disposition to obstruct