The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-06
Others May Not Be Able TO
Procure Fuel in Kansas.
Warning Sent Out by War In
dustries Board Today.
OUESTIONNAIRES OVER STATE
Manufacturers Must Give Sta
tistics on All Machinery.
Meeting of All Factory Owners
in Topeka Next Week.

lODthd w echs
Acting on a mandatory request
from Charles A. Otis. chief of the Re-
sources and Conversion section of the
War Industries board. the managers
and operators of all industrial plants
and machine shops in the second dis
trfct of the fourteenth region will at
once begin the compilation of neces-
sary data. The data will be listed in
QUESTIONABLE sent out today by
c. P. Buck. chairman of the second
district war industries board in Topeka.
The second district of the fourteenth
regional war industries board includes
in its jurisdiction the following coun-
| ties: Shawnee, Johnson, Douglas
Wabaunsee, Geary. Dickinson, Morris,
Chase, Marion. Lyon. Usage, Frank
| lin, and Miami.
| Industrial plants and machine
shops. however small, must under the
terms of the mandatory request i'm
mediately complete the survey of the
| individual plants.
The letter sent out by Buck gives
warning that soon now plants which
are not engaged in making war es-
sentials will find themselves una BILE
! to secure materials or fuel with which
to carry on their work, and Buck in
Inmates in his letter that the govern
/
employment of operatives in plants
other than those engaged in the pro-
duction of the war essentials.
Meeting in Topeka.
The letter is being sent out to secre-
! taries of Chambers of Commerce in all
the cities and towns in the second dis
trict and these officials are charged
with the responsibility of making the
| industrial surveys of their respective
| communities. The secretaries are also
requested to urge all managers of ma,
CLINE shops and factories TO attend the
meeting of the war industries board
| in Topeka, July IL.
| The Topeka Chamber of Commerce
has made arrangements for taking
care of the visitors who may come to
! the city to attend this meeting. A
| luncheon for the visitors will he served
July IL, and all of the meetings of
| the War Industries board will be held
in the Chamber quarters.
| Select Chairmen,
| Chairman Buck, of the Second dis
| trict board, announced this morning
that a chairman will be chosen at the
| meeting July II to represent each
| class of industry as outlined by Chair
man Otis the resources and con-
version section. There are ten classes
| of industry recognized in this list, and
| the chairman chosen to head each
! classification will become by virtue
of his craftsmanship, a member of the
executive committee of the war in
| dustries board of the Second district.
The duties of the executive COM
mittee will be to supply any further
information that may be required
| concerning the Industrial conditions
| of the section, and to spend their ef
forts in co-ordinating the industries
of the section SO that they may find
| themselves in a position to figure, to
the fullest extent, in the manufacture
| of war essentials.
Another duty of the chairman CT
| each industry will be to line up the
factories and hops under his juris-
diction so that the fullest co-opera-
ton among plants may be had on
| war orders. For instance if an order
| should come out for larger quantity
of war products than any one factory
in the district would be able to handle,
! 1t would become the duty of the chair
man of that particular branch of m
| dustry to apportion the order on the
quota basis-th is, number of the
factories equipped to handle that par
ticuldr kind of product would be call
ed upon to fill parts of the order, in
| stead of having to turn down the
| whole thing on account of lack of
capacity.
Into Nine Sections.
As was said before the industries
of the section will be divided into nine
sections The sections and the indus
| tries which each section includes are
as follows:
% Castings-A1uminum and brass,
gray iron. nalleable steel.
(2} Forgings and Stampings-Drop
forgings. light and heavy; gun forg-
ings. shell forgings, large and small;
stampinss, heavy and light; sheet
metal, heavy and light.
(3) Rubber Products-Solid tires,
pneumatic tires and accessories. cloth
ing, footwear, mechanical goods. ball.
airplane fabric, medical supplies, gas
masks, hard rubber.
t4) Clay Products-Chemica1 stone
ware apparatus. sewer pipe. hollow
tile, bricks, fire. paving and building;
linsulators, conduits, common stone
ware. tableware.
CD. Machinery and Machine Prod
ucts-Electr1cal appliances, machin-
cry, machine shop equipment, special
ties, bar metal products.
(6) Chemicals, Oils and Paints
Oils. refined and grease paints: paint.
varnish, shellac. driers and thinners.
chemicals, acids, fertilizers, industrial
chemicals
I CD Textile and CIothing-Knit
goods. Shirts and overalls, sewing ma
chine products. uniforms, garments,
caps and hats, woolens.
(S) Wood and Leather-Paper
boxes, wood cases, leather, truck bod
les mill work.
(9o Engineering-Plant survey, es-
Inmates. tools, jigs, gauges, etc, pro-
duction.
Mandatory Request
Under the terms of the mandatory
request" by Chairman Otis. for the
war industries board relayed to the
second district by Chairman Buck, in
dustrial plsnts and machine shops
. Iconfinusd on Ps0a TWol