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Show SHIPYARD WORKERS MAY HAVE TO FIGHT PHTTjADELPHTA, July 3. New draft retaliations which will take from the exempt ex-empt classifications thousands of men employed In shipyards are being prepared pre-pared at Washington, according to Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. ERflby-Smlth. representative repre-sentative of Provost Marshal Crowder, who is in this ci-ty Investigating- selective draft conditions. The new regulations, it is said, are designed to place in military service men who are now exempt simply because they are working In shipyards and whose places can be taken by men in other deferred classifications under the work or fight order. Actual shipbuilders shipbuild-ers and technical men will not be affected affect-ed by the new rules. |