The Nenana daily news., 1918-12-12
NATION FACING
 B|G INDUSTRIAL
 PROBLEMS NOW

WASHINGTON, D. C.-ln the great task of internal reconstruction the War Industries Board seems cer- tain to continue in existence and play large part in the transforma- tion of war manufacturing back to peace time production. This is one feature of the governments program for easing the nations business from the pitch of war to the pursuits of peace without convulsing it in the process. In sense, the program is tentative, because it's formation has just begun. Nevertheless the planning for peace is giving all gov ernment agencies in Washington these days material for as systematic thought as the prosecution of war
 Industrial reconstruction, next to rehabilitation of the army, is pro- bably the most important phase of these plans. How to stop the manu- fracture of shells, of guns, of army and navy supplies, without stopping the industrial wheels which made them, and to furnish new work for these wheels, is problem which agencies of the War Industrial Board will be called on to solve. This means that the hundreds of indus trial and commercial leaders who have been called to Washington will have to continue their services for essential peace work, or substitutes for them to be found.
 Manufacturing plants which now look to the War Industrial Board for assistance in obtaining materials and which in turn comply with the force ful suggestions of the board, eventu ally will call on some government agency to guide them during the pro- cess of facing about toward peace production. The War Industries Board is the only agency equipped with the machinery and supplied with the information to give this guid- ance. For that reason, the officials in closest touch with currents of ideas within the government insist that the War Industries Board will continue in existence indefinitely after the war, regardless of when peace is finally settled.
 Officials intimate that means will be found of continuing the current plans for eliminating strikes, of giv- ing labor greater voice in the man. agement of industrial plants and of extending both labor and trade fed erations to promote collective bar gaining. They suggest that the gov ernment, through the War Finance Corporation, may aid in the conver- sion of industries from war to peace footing, reversing the existing prior ity of war industries. Railroad transportation, industrial production and ocean shipping must be co-or- dinated and supervised for a few years after peace comes as they have been during the war, in the opinion of government leaders Employment agencies, universities and schools. churches and other social organiza- tlons must cooperate to facilitate the placing of returned soldiers in the occupations where they are best fitted and most needed.
 To do all this, it is the belief in many offical circles in Washing ton that most government agencies which have sprung up during the war must continue to function for an indefinite time afterward. These include the War Industries Board the Shipping Board, War Trade Board, Food and Fuel Administra- tions. War Labor Board and the War Labor Policies Board, numerous divi- sions of the Council of National De- fense, War Finance Corporation, and many other connected agencies. The Railroad Administration has 21 months to live after peace is signed unless future legislation should change existing plans for restoration of railroads to private control. The