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Show OFD RAFT BE USEFUL Those Who Will Not Work Will Be Put Into In-to the Army Under Drastic Amendment to Present Regulations. MANY MUST SEEK NEW OCCUPATIONS No Excuses on Ground of Dependency for Idlers, Gamblers, Bartenders Bar-tenders and Long List of Other Employees. WASHINGTON, May 23. Every mp.n of draft age must work or fight after July 1 under a drastic amendment to tho selective service regulations announced today by Provost Marshal General Crowd er. Not only idlers, but all draft registrants reg-istrants engaged in what are held to be non -useful occupa tions are to bo haled before local boards and given the choice of a new job or the army. Gamblers, ruco track and buckctshop attendants and. fortune tellers hoad the list, but those who will be reached by the new regulation also. -include waiters and bartenders, theater ushers and attendants, at-tendants, passenger elevator operators and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, etc, domestics and clerks in stores. DEPENDENCY IS NOT CONSIDERED. Deferred classification granted on account ac-count of dependents will be disregarded entirely in applying the rule. A man may bo at the bottom of class 1 or even in t-lass 4, but if he falls within the regulation regu-lation and refuses to take useful employment em-ployment he will bo given a new number In class I that will send him Into military mili-tary service forthwith. I.ocar boards are authorized to use discretion only where they find that enforced change of employment em-ployment would result in disproportionate disproportion-ate hardship upon his dependents. "It had been known for some time that some form of 'work or fight' plan had been submitted to President Wilson, but there had been no intimation that it was so far-reaching in scope. Both tho military mili-tary authorities and department of labor officials bellevo that It will go a long way toward solving the lahor problem for farmers, shipbuilders and munition makers, and will end for the present at least talk of conscription of labor. The Announcement today gives notice significantly sig-nificantly that the list of non-useful occupations oc-cupations will bo extended from time to time as necessity requires. ANNOUNCEMENT IS MADE BY CROWDER. Tho statement of tho provost marshal general's office follows: Provost Marshal General ( ,'rowder today announced an amendment t t ho selective service regulations which deals wit h Ihc great question of compelling men not engaged in a useful occupation immediately to apply ap-ply themselves to some form of la- , bor contributing to the general good. The idler, too. will find himself confronted con-fronted with t ho a Iternative of finding find-ing suitable employment or entering the army. This regulation provides that after July 1 any reglst rant who is found by a local board to bo a habitual Idler or not engaged In some useful occupation shall bo summoned before the board, given a chance to explain, and, in the absence of a satisfactory satisfac-tory explanation, to bo inducted into the military service of tho United State. Any local hoard will be authorized to take action whether It has original jurisdiction of 'the registrant or not; In other words, any man loafing around a pool room in Chicago may be held to answer to a Chicago board even though ho may have registered in New York and lived there DSOat of his life. The regulations which apply to idler registrants will le deemed to apply also to gamblers of all description de-scription and employees and attendants at-tendants of bucketshops, race tracks,-fortune tracks,-fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmists palm-ists and the like who. for the purpose pur-pose of the regulations, shall be considered con-sidered as idlers. The new regulations will also affect af-fect the following classes: (a) Persons engaged In the serving of food and drink, or either, in pub- (Continucd on Page Two.) EVERY MAN OF DRAFT ! AGE 1ST BE USEFUL (Continued from Page One.) lie places, including hotels and social clube. (b) Passenger elevator operators and attendants, doormen, footmen and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses, office buildings and bathhouses. (c) Persons, including ushers and other attendants, engaged and occupied occu-pied in, and in connection with, games, sports and amusements, excepting ex-cepting actual performers in legitimate legiti-mate concerts, operas or theatrical performances. (d) Persons employed In domestic service. (e) Sales clerks and other clerks employed in stores and other mercantile mer-cantile establishments. Men who are engaged as above or who are idlers will not be permitted to seek relief because of the fact that they have drawn a late order number or because they have been placed in class II, 111, or TV on the grounds of dependency. The fact that he is not usefully employed will outweigh both of the above conditions. List to Be Extended. It is expected thatVtho list of non-useful non-useful occupations will be extended from time to time as necessity will require so as to include persons in other employments. Temporary absences from regular employment not to exceed one week, unless such temporary absences are habitual and frequent, shall not be considered as idleness. Regular vacations vaca-tions will not be considered as absences ab-sences in this connection. The regulation throws a further safeguard around men not usefully employed, by providing that where there are compelling domestic circumstances circum-stances that would not permit change of employment by the registrant without disproportionate hardship on his dependents, or where a change from non -useful to" useful employment employ-ment or occupation, would necessitate a removal of the registrant or his family, local boards may give consideration consid-eration to the circumstances. The regulation further provides that where such a change of employment would compel the night employment of women under circumstances which a board might deem unsuitable for such employment of women, the board may take such circumstances into consideration consid-eration In making its decision. Crowder Explains. Explaining the new regulation and the necessity for it, General Crowder says: The war has so far disorganized the normal adjustment of industrial man power as to prevent the enormous enor-mous industrial output and national organization necessary to success. There is a popular demand for organization or-ganization of man power, but no direct di-rect draft could be imposed at. present. Steps to prohibit idleness and noneffective non-effective occupation will be welcomed by our people. We shall give the Idlers and men not eff ectively employed the choice between military service and effective employment. Every man. in the draft age at least, must work or fight. This is not alone a war of military maneuver. It is a deadly contest of industries and mechanics. Germany must not be thought of as merely possessing an army; we must think of her as being an army an army in which every factory and loom in the empire is a recognized part in a complete machine running night and clay at terrific speed. ; We must make ourselves the same sort of effective machine. Must Be Effective. It is not enough to ask what would happen if every man in the nation turned his hand to effective work. We must make ourselves effective. We must organize for the future. We must make vast withdrawals for the army and immediately close up the ranks of industry behind the gap with an accelerating production of every useful thing in necessary measure. How is this to be done? The answer is plain. The first step toward the solution of the difficulty is to prohibit engagement by able-bodied able-bodied men in the field of hurtful employment, em-ployment, idleness or ineffectual employment em-ployment and thus induce and persuade per-suade the vast, wasted excess into useful fields. The very situation we are now considering, con-sidering, however, offers great possibilities possi-bilities in improvement of the draft, as well as great possibilities for the composition of the labor situation by effective administration of the draft. No Exemption for Loafers. Considering the selective service law, we see two principal causes of deferment of the call to military service ser-vice exemption and the order numbers num-bers assigned by lot. The exemptions themselves fall into two conspicuous categories dependency and industrial employment. One protects domestic relations, the other the economic interests in-terests of the nation. Between the two there is an inevitable hiatus, for it is demonstrably true that thousands, thou-sands, if not millions, of dependency exemptions have no effect on industrial indus-trial protection whatever. One of the unanswerable criticisms of the draft has been that it takes men from the farms and from all useful use-ful employments and marches them past crowds of idlers and loafers away to the army. The remedy is simple to couple the industrial basis with other grounds for exemption and to require that any man pleading exemption ex-emption on any ground shall also show that he is contributing effectively effective-ly to the industrial welfare of the nation. The regulation itself makes plain the determination of the war department. depart-ment. The great organization of local lo-cal and district boards which has already al-ready accomplished a notable work may be relied upon to catch the spirit of the movement, and sorely needed man power will soon be flowing into the fields of useful endeavor or into the other direction of military strength. |