Show T NEW PLANS ONi ON i 4 WORK OR FIGHTS FIGHT'S FIGHT S it b r. r NIPPED BY WAR J t. t 1 r J tt Cro Rc Report ort Reveals Reach Indus Indus- System to lo i i trial Slackers t 1 ft r rg g I Washington F Feb tJ G. G 5 While tho sec sec- J ond Jn l and probably r th tho o final annual animal al rc- rc J i lott ort on tho selective system prepared by MaJ Gen Enoch II Crow v dor provost marshal general and ma made c FT P J tic C toda today contained only oily one nc spa i recommendation that tho C draft a t tf f 3 i be bc used to take t the f. f nial census tic census pago COO o document f r gave Ia the first t inkling of or drastic exl ex- ex i l 4 a tensions of or tho the work worl or tl fight ht lC regula- regula 1 3 i t ons which had been planned Just before be- be 4 Moro fore hostilities ended tlde i a The report showed that specific plans j L before Secretary Baker Baler last No No- I under which a v minimum work J l ng ng week weel for 01 the tho essential In i would have hac lIc been n fixed In hm n or order cr that t I t Industrial slackers III might bo he reached I and that plans wore for fOt tho mandatory mandator deferment of or registrants egI tt Ins in inessential essential s In Industry denying them n jib nb- I tho the right of or military service Ber A scheme for supervising labor disI dis- dis I 1 I through h tin nn Industrial furlough fur fur- lom lough system also Iso was being evolved ol Workers Worker As 9 to tho accomplishments of ot tho so- so 0 system credit for tor which was gIVen to tho tIlO patriotic devotion of ot thousands i upon thousands of or Amerlean Amer- Amer J gk lean men cn and women who aided Con Con- cral Crowder sal salV said V Ve aro 10 too close upon tho en e events s j to assess them How great greato sla i part American selective service o fa played cd in n the tho drama rama o 0 the world worl war hIstory alone alono can tellI tell I To enroll for tor service over o to mobilize a selected army ofa of or J a more more than a million of or them themi i A r l' within the tho space of or ninety days das to toI I 1 have presently available for military duty dut additional fighting men y to classify this vast ast group of manpower manpower manpower man- man power In the order of Its military and an industrial Importance so flO as to pre pre- servo ser tho the domestic and Industrial life lIfo of or tho the nation to speed up war time 41 4 j t to maintain tain them In a I 4 status of ot maximum efficient efficiency product t r tion and to fo pave pa the way for tor a speedy return to normal time peace pursuits M 41 i i while recruiting tho the full fighting I I oJ e strength of or the nation these nation these are arc ret rei re- re t i suits which would he Instantly rejected j r I. I T 1 It I. o o i I it g not nUL me I U t 1 t stand as Irrefutable testimonials of or J their accomplishment J r round Pound Feasible t In BUS BUS' suggesting that the tho census might heretofore be taken talen through tho the so- so 4 f o service machinery General I t Crowler Crowder said the feasibility of or man many theories divergent ent from tho the prewar conception of or things has been demonstrated demon demon- although the time question of or how I f far those thos principles should be projected j j after aftel the thc war wr was a matter of or vital vHal vitali i national Importance He lie said however how- how i te ever that ho 1113 believed belle the machinery nj for or tho the census was wholly practical and added that were wore registered in a single day and In four da days Including nS' a complete survey and arid classification of their do- do and industrial status tho the census census census cen cen- sus data should bo be obtainable in days das instead of or months as is now tho time case The draft regulations towards which I General Crowder was mo ln moving when the war end ended d he lie S said ld Included tho the man maim man mandatory I ator- ator Industrial deferment because we we had almost reached the tho time timo when Ii- Ii It IL would have been necessary to make mak It it as impossible for or the man deferred for industrial reasons to secure military mili mill military tar tary service sor as It had been for the registrants In class 1 to avoid oid it Furlough Planned Conservation of labor already en engaged engaged engaged en- en In essential Industries would have haye thus been pro l provided cd time the report said aid but ut tho the as as' nation was not prepared prepared pre pre- pared parel for fOl an n Industrial draft dratt the equally necessary augmentation of or labor la labor la- la I bor had hul to be solved In some other way wa- Jt It was here that hat extension o othe of the i work or 0 fight principle and of ot the Industrial furlough would have hac keen been Invoked The c shifting of or labor In 1 the essential industries would have ha been 1 topped stoPPed b by calling men Into the m mill mill- ill ill- tary tar service se and furl furloughing them only for the time thc they engaged eng Iq a particular particular par par- Industry Another element of the time plan was aimed at industrial slackers men who worked a da day day or two at war wages only onh- to lay lay off for succeeding days das The minimum working week weel of eight a day da- dathe the report showed would t i i have b been n evolved ol aim and tho the furloughs furlough s of or men n who failed to give sho that week weeks s work worl without proving good cause cans would ha have havo 0 been cancelled On 1 November 11 11 1918 the tho report shows the United States had ll In Us its mil mil- milItary military and amid naval nl service men or 19 l' per pct el cent of or the tho male malc population Uon On the same day England had hall already I called to tho the colors or nearly nearl GO CO per cent cont The final official total for all 11 registrations regis rOls- was Of or these HG had hall been actually examined and practically thirty then men out oui of every everyone ono one hundred were found to be physically J call cally disqualified Oklahoma and Arkansas Arkansas Ar Ar- kansas returned the highest ratio of or orun men un under c tho the physical 1 requirements Rhode c Island Islan and Arizona tho time lowest lowest- |