The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1918-10-26
EASTERN STATES
NEED WORKERS
War Labor Requirements Make.
Threatening Array Accord
ing to Survey.

A rough survey of some Of the i'm
mediate war labor needs, in eastern
states alone is given below. In BIRDS
eye form it shows the effort and self
sacrifice which must be made to keep
war production on level with the
demands of the military program.
Every shipyard on the Atlantic
coast is in urgent need of additional
men, particularly skilled workmen, to
get out the ships necessary to MAIN
tain an uninterrupted flow Of supplies
to France.
The nitro powder plant in West
Virginia must have 10000 men stead
lily employed in order to finishsA con-
struction by January 1. Only $4,000
are now on hand. This plant Is re-
CURED in order that it may ship $685.
600 pounds of smokeless powder a
day to France before the spring Of
fensive.
In Maine. New Hampshire and Ver-
mont there is a demand estimated
anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000 men
to get out aeroplane spruce, shipbuild-
ing material. and other timber for war
work.
Massa chusetts, Connecticut and
Rhode Island are filled with munition i
factories and are short approximately
$4,000 men,
In New York state, the American
Locomotive company, with plants at
Schenectady and Dunl1irk, manufac-
turing locomotives for France, is
badly handicapped for lack of COM
mon labor. The Interior Storage
Depot at Schenectady is likewise short
of labor, as is the Aluminium company
Of America at Messina.
In New Jersey $4,000 men will be
: found necessary to fill labor shortages
in shell-loading plants alone.
In Pennsylvania several steel mills
have had to shut down part of their
plants for lack of labor.
Delaware and Maryland are filled
with war industries, number of
which need more men for maximum
output.
The United States Employment
Service in the last six weeks has sent
1900 men to war projects at Norfolk,
Va. These projects need approx
mately 10000 more men. In, addition
to this Virginia's needs include a large
powder bag loading plant of the du
Points, badly in need of men; the Nor
folk port terminal, short 1000 men;
and numerous other industries, includ-
ing shipbuilding plants, are SUFFERING
North Carolina has one new camp
at Fayetteville which alone needs
from 5000 to 10000 men. 1t has also
several other camps and war pro-
jects where scheduled construction is
threatened by lack of labor
In Kentucky urgent construction
work at Camp Knox is held I'D be-
cause Of a labor shortage estimated at
10000.
South Carolina has the great
Charleston port terminal. which
should employ about 1850 and has
about 5000; 10000 men are needed
for Camp jackson Immediately. At
this camp 500 out Of 1000 skilled car
penters are working as common Ia
5orers because the common labor
work must be done first
The state of Georgia requires 1000
men for the picric-acid plant at
Brunswick alone.
In Alabama there is the Air Nitrates
corporation at Muscle Shoals, together
with various other contracts associ-
ated 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 picric-acid plant at Little Rock
| Camp Pike alone needing nearly 1O,-
900 men.
The du Pont plant in Tennessee
should maintain a working force of
! nearly $4,000 men. That number has
| not yet been attained. s.
In Ohio. aside from the. we'll known
| war activities, there are two new nj
| trate plants being constructed that,
| together, will require@35,O 900 men or
10000 men, none of whom. are now
! in sight.