The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-04-19
Priority Rules Announced By
Federal Board.
CLASSIFlES ALL ESSENTIALS
Aims To Speed Up Production Aircraft
Plants Given First Preference,
Then Firms Making Am
munition.

was eStdDllSneQ Win the complexion
of new priorities order compiled by
the War Industries Board.
The purpose of the order. which
provides for conservation Of fuel and
raw materials by placing industries in
their order Of relative Importance, is
aimed to prevent conflict of interests
among the various departments in the
war government and speed up produc-
ton and transportation.
The Governments action practically
places the country's business under
Federal control
Recently, through agreement with
musical instrument manufacturers, a
reduction of 80 per cent. in the produc-
ton of such instruments was agreed
to with the War Industries Board.
Conferences with other manufacturers
have been going on for some time to
bring about a general reduction in all
output in order to give war work the
right of way.
Automobile and candy manufactur-
ers are hit by the new ruling, no pro-
vision being made in the priorities list
for either industry to receive fuel and
transportation facilities until vital
needs have been supplied.
This ruling does not apply, however,
to those portions of the plant engaged
on special work for which fuel pro-
visions are made.
No distinction is made, it was off,
cially announced today, between any
of the industries and plants which are
included in the list and no significance
Is to be attached to the order in which
they appear. The list follows:
Aircraft plants engaged exclusively
in manufacture of aircraft or equip
ment therefor.
Ammunition plants engaged In the
manufacture of ammunition for the
United States Government and Allies.
Army and navy environments and
camps. Small arm plants engaged in
manufacturing small arms for the
United States Government and the
Allies
Plants engaged in manufacturing
chemical exclusively.
Coke plants.
Domestic consumers.
Then follow plants manufacturing
electrical equipment, electrodes, ex-
plosives and agricultural implements
and farm and operating equipment.
Plants producing feed, ferro alloys,
fertilizers and friedrich follow in or.
der.
Food plants manufacturing, milling,
preparing, refining, preserving and
wholesaling come next.
Food container manufacturers, gas
producing plants, plants manufacture
ing exclusively gas-producing machin-
cry and plants producing large guns
follows aa
Plants manufacturing exclusively
hemp, jute and cotton bags, insecti-
cides and fungicides are placed next
In order, with iron and steel, glass
furnaces and foundries, laundries,
plants manufacturing machine tools,
mines and plants engaged exclusively
in manufacturing mining machines
and equipment following.
Printing and publishing exclusively
newspapers and periodicals are next,
followed by refneries of both mineral
and vegetable oils. plants manufacture
ing exclusively oil well equipment.
Public institution and buildings,
public utilities, railways, plants man
ufacturing locomotives, freight cars
and rails and other plants engaged ex-
clusively in manufacturing rail sup
plies. refrigeration for food and ex-
elusive reproducing plants produc-
ers or wholesalers Of seeds, except
flower Seed ships bunker coal, not
including pleasure craft, plants en-
gagged exclusively in building ships,
not including pleasure craft, nor in
manufacturing exclusively supplies
and equipment therefor, manufacture
ers of soap, steel plants and rolling
mills, tanning plants, except for patent
leather, plants for manufacturing tan
ming extracts, tin plate, binder Irvine
and rope and wire rope.
Edward d. Parker, chairman of the
priorities board, stated that the list of
essential industries might be extended
from time to time. Two factors, it
was declared. will control determine
ton of essential industries. They are:
1. Relative urgency Of the uses for
which the product of the plant is
utilized.
2. Percentage Of the product of the
plant which is utilized for war work,
direct or indirect, or work of excep-
tional or national Importance.
Newspapers and periodicals. were
placed on the preference list.
The priority board in its official
statement asserted that it had not IN
dertaken to classify any industry as
nonessential or to limit for the present
the quantity of fuel any particular