Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-12
MANUFACTURERS WILL
SPEED WAR SUPPLIES
Business L Leaders From Six
States Open War Conven.
ton at Shore
PLAN INTERSTATE UNION
Pennsylvania Well Represented
at Important Industrial
Conference
Atlantic City. June IL.

| tering support to President Wilson and
debate plans for further speeding up of
every branch of win-the-war activity in
an interstate war convention today under
the auspices of the Manufacturers Coun-
ell of New Jersey.
The presence of Captain Francesca
Guarda bassi. as representative OF
Count di Cellere. the italian ambassa.
dor. and Louis Tracy. Of the British
mission to the United States, gives
the gathering an international signif-
canoe. aside from the fact that the con-
ference comprises some of the most
important of the industries upon which
the Washington Administration is de-
pending for war supplies.
Warren C. King. of Bound Brook,
president of the council. sounded the
keynote of the conference In his address
at the opening session, in which he up
held the Administration and urged that
criticism and faultfnding be sidetracked
Instead of wasting precious time find
ing fault with others, we must devote
that time to doing the work which con-
stitutes our part in winning the war;"
he said. Senator Frelinghuysen, of
New Jersey. a member of the Mill
tary Affairs Committee. is expected
to enlghten the manufacturers upon
the progress of the aircraft inquiry.
Charles A. Otis. chief of the re-
sources and conversion section OF the
war industries board. and Senator Clar-
a1a1 rtrn
at the morning session.
During the afternoon session Colonel
Austen Colgate. vice president Of the
New Jersey body, will outline plan for
creating similar councils in Pennsylva-
MIA New York. Massachusetts. Connec-
ticut and Delaware for an interstate
union of the industries of the six States.
Peter Smith will present the report OF
the Washington bureau. through which
Jersey manufacturers are cooperating
directly with the Government.
At the evening dinner session the
manufacturers will hear from the for
eign representatives. including Lieuten-
ant Renard, OF the French mission. and
CAPTAIN ~ A. Ross, of the British army
Louis F. Post. assistant secretary OF
Labor: Charles A. Clayton. of the United
States Labor Employment Bureau: II.
T.. Miles, of the war industries section of
the Council of National Defense: the
Rev DR. w. II. S. Demarest, president
of Rutgers College; Major r. A. Greene.
of the Ordnance Department. and John
C. Jones. chief Of ordnance for the dis
trict of Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania Representatives
Pennsylvania representatives in the
conference include n. z. Graves, Philip
s. Tilden, f. S. Jenison. William Frei-
hofer. S. S. Flesher Thomas Devlin,
$. Russell. Jr., H. S. Zuber. Morris Dam
nenbaum. Henry F.. Scheetz, W. Kirk
land Dwier. william r. HeXamer. w. NJ.
whitney. Philadelphia L. B. Huber, II.
G. Wolf and Charles o. Wood, Cham
bersburg Andrew n. Bodey. A. J. Brum-
bach, Reading NJ. J. Brown, l.. S. Dow,
II. r. Harris, p. H. Ferguson. Pitts
burgh; Albert Meyer Easton; William
f. Tinker, Johnstown; l.. n. d. Mixsell,
Bethlehem j. w. DeChant, Harrisburg,
and Walter Palmer, Chester.
Delaware's representatives include s.
*. Smith, for the Bethlehem Shipbuild-
Powder Company; A. p Van Golden.
Hercules Powder Company, and C. C.
Bye and F. A. Daboll, for the Charles
Warner Company. H. L. Hess will rep
resent the Hess Steel Corporation, of
Baltimore.
Britain's Sacrifice to War
Louis Tracy. of the British Mission to
the United States and of the American
Defense Society. told the convention
that Great Britain and her colonies had
armed 100000 men for the war. He
presented series of authentic statis-
ties from official sources that he said
would convey a necessary lesson.
IN the Somme battle between July
and December, 1916" Mr.. Tracy said,
the British casualties were: officers,
24.SO3. and men of all other ranks,
5O3.27S.
lin the Dardanelles. that scene of
utmost heroism and unhappy blunder-
ing, Britain lost SAL officers and 7l2,-
3O7 men. During the seven months be-
tween September. 1917, and March, 1918
the British casualty lists were 21966
officers and 449,211 men, while the total
o1s GERS and men for the month of
April of this year were 46,359.
These figures, which might rightly
be regarded as appalling. represent the
actual wastage of the war during the
major and minor operations covered by
the period stated. but do not include
the losses sustained during the two re-
cent German attacks"
Turning to more satisfactory figures
he gave the totals of prisoners and guns
captured and lost by British troops
These showed that since the beginning
Of the war and up to the end of No
vember, 1917, the British had captured
on all fronts 10000 prisoners and more
than 800 guns, while for the same period
the Germans had captured $500 Oh GERS
and 53,704 men of all other ranks.
Industries Must Develop
Industries must Immediately develop
their organization along the line of war
requirements or be put out of business,
Charles A. Otis chief Of the Bureau of
Resource and Conversion, of the War
Industries Board, told the manufac-
turers. Continuing in part, the speaker
said:
1T is obvious that as we progress the
the only buyer. II Is facing us now
that many industries must Immediately
develop their organization along the line
OF war requirements or be put out of
business. To save this very serious situ-
alton is the work Of the resource and
pendent upon the hearty support of
every business man of the country.
"Helpfulness between districts will be
expected, where an organization Is doing
a certain work well and another resource
must be started to keep up the volume.
the successful man will be expected to
give all possible information to the
one starting In to increase this pro-
duction
"A study must be made and careful
one of the fuel and power situations, so
that districts loaded with work will not
increase beyond the limit OF the power
and transportation facilities Of the coun-
There is not a man in the United
States | feel sure, today, but has any