The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-23

| of the military service of The Unilet
| States. Most of the men of the mill
tia, except those who went into til,
military service, were disqualified fol
active duty because of age, occupation
dependency or other reasons.
Under the direction of Adjutant Gen
eral Frederick Gilkyson the National
| Guard is being reorganized, and many
| of the former service men are enlist.
| ing. One regiment of infantry and one
troof of cavalry have already been ere
ated in the reorganization work. The
Second Regiment of infantry and a
! battery of field artillery are now being
organized in the southern section OF
the state, with headquarters in Cam
| den While the cities that will have
companies in the new regiment have
pected that they will be Trenton, Cam
den, Elizabeth, Perth Amhoy, Chat
ham. Summit, New Brunswick, Asbury
Park, Freehold, Pennington. Somer-
vile, Burlington, Mt. Holly, Riverside,
Bridgeton, Salem and Atlantic City.
Tentative plans are under way for or
ganization of two companies of coast
artillery and battalion of engineers
and field hospital company.
The requirements for service in the
new National Guard units call for one
night week for drill, outdoor target
practice and field encampment, with
all equipment furnished by the federal
government. The pay for weekly at
tendance at drill ranges from 500 to
$500 a year, according to grade attain
ed. Enlistment is from one to three
years, with no reserve clause. Men
will have the use of armories for recre-
alton
War Benefited Industries.
Effect of the war upon the growth of
Industries in New Jersey is the inter-
esting subject Of a report just issued
by the state department of labor Sta
tistics show that between 1914 and
1918 out of 1926 typical industries list
ed from the states total of 6,S32 the
capital invested in manufacturing en-
terprises increased $40 per cent; that
there was a gain of Al per cent in
money spent on lands and buildings
and that there was an increase of 20
per cent in the value of the states pro-
ductive equipment of machinery, tools
and implements.
The most phenomenal gains in the
industries was naturally confined to
those engaged in the manufacture of
high explosives for military uses in
this country and overseas. The man
ufacture of high explosives increased
as to capital invested by 402 per cent,
munitions 1890 per cent and shipbuild-
ing 1918 per cent.
The rise in wages was even more ex-
traordinary than the growth of the
trades. The average yearly earnings
OF employees in the manufacture of
high explosives increased 81 per cent,
Of munitions workers 243.1 per cent
and of shipyard employees lila per
cent in 1918 as compared with 1914
In this same period TIE average num-
Der of employees in shipyards of the
Sldlf1 NItuStu )tIO VI pei CClll. Ill Iuu-
nitions plants 4,364.S per cent and in
the manufacture of high explosives
1,069.1 per cent.
In the same period the amount paid
in wages to munitions workers showed
gain of S,713.6 per cent, high explo-
sives 2,0S6.9 per cent, shipyards 1,2447
per cent. Unskilled immigrant labor
ers earned between $1,000 and ST.
90T OF year in the period of COMPARE
SON. Other wage increases shown by
the report are: Wooden and wOrsted
workers, 1913 per cent; structural
steel and iron workers, 50 per cent;
employees of steam boiler plants, 1852
per cent; wire and wire cloth workers.
1908 per cent; window and bottle
glass workers, from S61610 to 1914 81
a year; tanners, S9.7 per cent; ma
chinists, 936 per cent; cigar and to-
bacco workers, S1.5 per cent; steel and
forge workers, from STD to 81, 1874 20
year; brick and terra Gotta workers,
500 per cent; miscellaneous Industrial
workers, 97S per cent Through the
state as whole the per capita earnings
of workers in industries increased
S499 So, or SS.7 per cent, in 1918 over
the wage rate in 1914
Better Pay for Teachers.
New Jersey will demand the best
teachers in return for its promise to
guarantee higher salaries, according
TO the legislative committee of the
80
Boards.
The federation, through its legisla-
tive committee, said New Jersey pays
its teachers the third highest average
salary in the Union, and there is no
reason why "our children should not
we are going to pay the salary we
must demand the best
The legislative committee of the fed
Grated boards is at work on a plan of
teacher salary Standardization for
trained and unframed teaching posi-
tons, with a living cost formula which
will allow the standards to be adapta-
BILE to any school district in New Jer-
sey.
South Jersey Industrial Boom.
There is business boom throughout
South Jersey that is unprecedented, in
Guiding the period when all the glass
plants were in full operation.
Woodbury. has recently gained a
large trunk mandatory, Clayton is
assured of shoe factory that will
employ 200 hands, Williamstown has a