Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-09
b. a StaS Correspondent
washington, Sept. 2.

Washington, Sept. g
The ,,tatus OF men between eighteen
a and forty-fve will not he affected by
the war industries boards selection OF
esseutjal industries The ruling OF the
war industries board will ne sen, TO the
district appeal boards for their informa-
tion, but the members OF those boards
win retain full jurisdiction over the es-
ssntiality of the service OF any of the
men under their aui horltT. 1t VIII oe
possible to draft men within the INDUS
tries listed by the wa industries board
and 10 regard as essential the services OF
men elsewhere employed.
In order to make more UNIFORM the
policy with regard to industrial ANemp-
liens. General Crowder VIII announce in
his regulations upon thr suhject the ap-
pointmcnt of an industrial advisory
81 board which will sit with the district
boards in all apped! cases This new
board will consist of ,hv'e members ono
s from the Depa rtment q Labor, one from
the Department OF Agriculture. one from
the district board. Il will have final
authority over all cases OF industrial ex-
: smption and in enforcing the work-or-
stght order.
The War Deps rtmen, is approaching
this problem from the opposite angle
from that chosen by the war industries
essential, rather than essential. occupa-
tsons His list stands, though II is likely
to be extended.
Tho preferred Industries included in
3 the four classes are as follows;
Class One
Plants principally engaged in produc-
inw aircraft. supplies and equipment
nnmunition for the United States and
the Allies. ordnance and small arms for
the United States and the Allies. chemi-
Gals for explosives. ammunition and air.
craft used In chemical warfare, metal
IS lurgical coke and by-products. includ-
ip9. toiuol. explosives for military pur-
poses: feed for livestock and poultry.
feed. including cereals and cereal prod
ucts; meats. including poultry: fish.
vegetables, fruit, sugar, syrups, glucose,
butter. eggs, cheese. milk and cream
lard. lard compounds oleomargarine and
other substitutes for butter or lard,
vegetable oil, beans. salt, coffee. baking
powder. soda and yeast. and ammonia
for refrigeration, fungicides. oil and
natural gas for fuel or mechanical pur-
popeo ttncludinE pipe lines and pumping
stations) toluol tgas plants). ships
other than pleasure craft or vessels not
built for the United States or the Allies
or under dicense of the shipping board
steel plants, plants producing solely
steel inEots and castings by the various
processes domestic consumers of fuel
and electric energy for residential con-
sumption. including homes. apartment
,uses, residential fats. restaurants and
hNtels coal mines. arsenals, canton
ments and camps of the army and navy
yards. railways operated by the United
States Railroad Administration mainte-
nance and operation Of ships excluding
pleasure craft. not common carriers and
maintenance OF public buildings used as
hospitals OF sanitations.
Piants principally engaged in produc-
ing locomotive or travelling cranes. roll
Ing and drawing copper. brass and
other copper alloys. coke not otherwise
classified and listed. ferro alloys, ma
chine tools and wire rope blast furnaces
producing pig iron steel rail mills (pro-
ducing rails over Atty pounds yard)
A constructon work of the War or Navy
Departments in emba rkatio ports nar-
bors. fortifcatiOns, food protection
operations. docks. locks, channels. inland
waterways and in maintenance and re-
pair Of same, mines producing metals
and ferro alloy minerals. street rail-
wsys electric lighting and power COM
panses. gas plants not otherwise class-
ned. telephone and telegraph companies.
\ water supply companies and like general
utilities. railways not operated by the
Tuised states, excluding those opera ed
q Z ~ plant facilities
Class Three
Plants engaged principally in produc-
ing food not otherwise listed not in
Guiding soft drinks, confectionery and
chewing gum, ice mining, tools and
equipment. equipment and supplies for
producing or transporting oil gas for
mechanical purposes. iron and steel
chains. electrical equipment. explosives
not otherwise listed. tin plate and small
or hand tools for working wood or
metAl. fuel and electric energy for do.
s msstic consumers not otherwise liste ed
y oteel rolling and drawing mills not
6<herwise listed maintenance of public
buitoings other than those used as hos
i p5tais and sanitsriums.
KS - Class -Four
AAundries, plants engaged principally
- producing and manufacturing hemp.
nte and cotton bags. manufacturing
ehemicals not otherwise listed. medicines
ene medical and surgical supplies. fer
Il uuners. nre brick. gray iron and NAL
liable iron casting, food containers in
seeticides and fungicides. soap. tanned
leather and tanning extracts. cotton and
woolen textiles. including spinning
waving and finishing cotton and woolen
knit goods. textile machinery, binder
txfne ard rope. plants engaged exclu.
otvely In manufacturing boots and shoes
plants engaged exclusively in manufac.
turing pulp and paper, cotton compress,
|4<% Ing. plants engaged principally In pro.
s1 60clng newspapers or periodicals which
~ enteretf at the postoftice as second
b 0MD matter. plants preserving. drying
* G1a<lng. packing and storing tobacco bu
4 ~ FOR manufacturing and marketing.
n ~ 1XnIm Hat Ia the most imDortant III.
!. S>1ion Of the industries OF the country
a1 made and is designed not only as
n6ater key for purposes of the draft
~ future howsof all the basic In.
~ eieSnsnts iAio industries essen.
~ uar program.
~ G1ept cpning within this cIsssl