Show v Survey Shows Plants Plant Lack Defense Jobs t By S. S BURTON HEATH NEW YORK The YORK The census of industrial in- in r r. potentialities now being I completed by the National Association Asso- Asso elation of Manufacturers will vill show two things very Important In the drive for lor pro- pro One is that the great majority of manufacturers willIng will will- Ing ingas as as they are are not contributIng contributing contrib contrib- because they have no con- con tracts The other other directly directly related related re- re and resultant resultant resultant-Is Is that while defense production Is falling behind behind beT be- be T hind urgent need the land is pocked with idle plant space and p partially idle equipment A A sampling based upon the first returns from Virginia Virginia- considered a typical state state showed showed that only 21 had defense work either cither direct or as subcontractors Almost half hall of those who an answered answered an- an are able and willing to expand their plants plants plants-if if they can get the orders orders anywhere anywhere from 10 to as much as per cent It would be hasty to assume that all of this waste of facilities Is needless Not all machinery is capable of conversion to war uses It is necessary that sufficient sum sum- dent clent plants be kept working on normal civilian production There may be some theoretically usable facilities which would not be Impracticable for utilization ex except except ex- ex in greater emergency than exists Yet the implications are enormous A maker of tobacco plant machinery already has turned to fabricating Diesel en en- en I en-I gines A huge Idle creamery ap appears appears appears ap- ap pears suitable for chemical proc proc- essing A laundry machine company company company com com- pany In Ohio Is producing equIpment equipment equipment equip equip- ment for making both guns and airplanes Ingenuity can go far |