Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-28
STATE TO WAKE UP TO FACT
THAT FACTORIES ARE Los
ING OUT ON WAR WORK.
FAIL TO CHANGE TO
ESSENTIAL WAR WORK
AGENTS Rushing to Washington to Ask
Aid Of Industries Board in Convert
ipo Plants or Securing Other Relief
Only Forty Iowa Plants classed as
Essential.
rBy Il. G. Doughertw1

Washington, sept, -o'N
MANY Iowa manufacturing plants are
going TO wake up to the fact some OF
these days that they are threatened
with suspension of business by reason
Of their failure to convert from nom
essential to essential war work.
In the last few days there has been
y. stream Of manufacturers ana manu-
lecturers agents coming to Wash'hs
ton to ask the war industries board
for aid in converting plants to war
purposes and to give them some other
means Of relief This is what these
manufacturers should have done
months ago. Their rush to washing
ton now after their doom has been
sealed is comparable only to that of the
rush of men between 81 and 40 to
Washington for commissions after the
law passed bringing them within the
draft.
The war industries board last week
announced its plan of grouping all the
industries Of the country into five
classes. Four of these. classes are on
a preference list and will be given al
lotments of raw material raAiroae
cars coal and labor. The MIN i's''
which is a big one that incluoes scores
of Iowa firms, is not mentioned py
name. It included all the plants not
ella ssitied in the four classes as essen
ti,l TO the prosecution Of the war
Firms outside the pale in this fifth
class will get no basic raw material
They will get no other ma
terial. unless they haul it themselves
because the railroad administration
will not give them cars or accept thelr
shipments They will get no fuel until
the needs of all essential Industries are
filled. which probably means that such
manufacturing plants will receive only
fuel enough to keep their pipes from
freezing.
They will have difficulty in keeping
their labor because it will be drawn
by the war plants, and there will be no
grounds in these industries for claim
ing industrial exemption for employees
Iowa Lays Behind.
In a list of plants classed as essen
tial plants by the war indutries board
lust forty Iowa firms are mentioned.
It is inconceivable that this Is all the
Iowa plants engaged in war work ana
there is reason to believe that some
manufacturers have not come forward
with their claims to be classed as es-
sential. Here is the list:
Des Moines-American Glue Com
pany; Boyt Walter Company; F. Bro
& Iron Company; Des Moines lncuba-
tor Company; Des Moines Sawmill
Company; Klondike Incubator Com
pany; Priest -O-Lte Company; Thomp-
son Manufacturing Company.
Observation-Disclosures Locomotive
Works; Davenport Machine & Foun-
dry Company; Davenport Manufacture
ing Company: Prest-O-Lite Company:
Sears Saddlery Company; Zimmerman
Steel Company: and Bettendorf Com
pany.. Bettendorf
Dubuque-Adams Company: Nc
Donald Manufacturing Company: Nor
rison. Bros.
Clinton-Clinton Saddlery Company;
Clinton Wire Cloth Company.
Marshalltown Bogardus N e ! s n
Company; c. A. Durham Company:
Fisher Governor Company; Marshall
town Trowel Company.
Burlington-Murray Iron Works:
Northwestern Stamping Company.
Ottumwa-Nicholls Manufacturing
Company: Box Car Loader Company.
Sioux City-Sioux City Tent & AVN
ing Company; Fl. A. Baker Company.
Mason City-Northwestern States
Portland Cement Company.
Cedar Rapids. G. Cherry Com
pany.
Fort Dodge-Amercan Cement Plas-
tic Company; Rockland Camden An
Choir Roekland Machine Company;
Grinnell- Dodge Tool Company: Park
lin-M. & c. Skirt Company; Newton
Parsons Company; Keokuk- United
Lead Company; Muscatine-Van Nos
trand Saddlery Company
This does not include firms given
blanket food preferences. such as pack
ing houses. but it takes in most others.
II any Iowa firms are not in this list
that ought to be on it they should take
1t up with Chairman Baruch at once
II they can't geet on 1t, they ahould
prepare for hard shedding.