Show ALL IDLERS MUST FIGHT OR LABOR GENERAL CROWDER R ISSUES ORDER COVERING VARIOUS SPORTS AND TRADES EDICT IN FORCE JULY FIRST amendment to selective service lations to make nation nat oil efficient in n war takes registrants out of red class washington may 23 general crowders Crowd new work or fight regulations may inny require professional baseball players either cither to engage in fix useful occupation or to join tho the miny m iny players us its well as jockeys jock rya professional golfors and other probes lonal sportsmen general crowder said aid today will be affected ly by tho the reg ree lons 1 if enforced general crowder said lie did not desire to ginlio cIlle millings nt lit tills time toiuo arid would inke rulings only when cases catao to glim ailin front local boards lifter after july 1 bulletin washington liny 23 21 then performers likayo been except excepted cd front from new draft regulations nt at tho the direction of secretory secretary linker who la Is to foci feel that tile people cannot do with out nil all amusement lit in and that hint other could bo be dispensed with moro more readily washington alay 1 1 21 I civery ninn man 0 of draft ngo ago must either work VT vr after july li 1 under a drastic amend I 1 ment to tho the selective service tlona announced today by general crowder provost tu arshal general not only idlers but all draft registrants engaged in what are held to bo be non useful occupations aro are to be dialed before local boards ond ind given the hoice of a new job or tho the anny race track and bucket shop attendants and fortune tellers head tile the list but those who will bo be reached by the now new regulation also lit lir caudo walters waiters anti ami bartenders theater ushers and attendants passenger elevator tors und find other attendant ij ot OC clubs club hotels stores etc Cot nestles and and clerks in stores deferred classification granted on oil account of dependents will vill bo be disregarded entirely in applying tile tho rule A ninn man way inay bo be tit at tho the bottom of 0 class claar 1 or even lit in class 4 but it lie ho falls with wlter in the regulation und and refuses to td take 11 useful employment lie ho will bo be given ff a new nevy number in class I 1 that will solid him into tho the military service forthwith bocal boards ore are authorized to use discretion only where they find that enforced change of employment would result in disproportionate hardship upon ills his dependents may solve the labor problem it tins has been known for name tinto time that ome lonio form of work or tight fight plan line ahna been submitted to president wilson but there here has been no intimation that it was so far reaching in lla its scope hoth tile iho military authorities and depart merit of labor believe that it will go eo a long on way toward solving the labor problem for farmers era find makers and will end for the lio present at least leant talk of con of labor tito the announcement today gives notice lint the list hit of non useful occupations all aill be extended from iimoto time to time as necessity requires the statement statement of the mar diar shot generals ollice Is ns as follows provost lil marshal arshal general crowder toony announced Q d nn an amendment to tile lie selective service regulations which deals with the grout question of compelling men not engaged in ili a useful occupation immediately to apply thein selves to somo some forin of labor imbor contributing to tile lie general good tho the idler too will find himself confronted with tile alternative of finding suitable eul eni or entering tile army tills this regulation provides that utter after july 1 any registrant who Is found by a local board to be a habitual idler or not engaged in some useful occupation shall bo be summoned before tho the board given a chance to explain and in ill the absence of it stills factory explanation to be inducted into the military service of 1110 united states any local board will vill bo be authorized to take action whether it has nu an original jurisdiction of the registrant or not in other words any man loafing around a poolroom in chicago may bo be held field io answer ingwer to a chicago board even though he ha muy may have registered in new york ond and lived there most of 0 his ufa life the regulations which apply toddle to idle registrants will vill be deemed to apply also to gamblers of all description and employ ceu and attendants of bucket shops shop and race tracks fortuno fortune tellers ants palmists pal DAl mists and tile the like who for the purpose of the regulations shelf bo be considered as idlers new rule in IA sweeping the new regulation will vill also affect the following classes a persons engaged in the serving of food and drink or either cither in public places including hotels and social cluber b passenger elevator operators and st attendants doormen footmen and other attendants of clubs hotels stores stored apartment houses build ingli and bath bathhouses houses CO c Iler persons sons including ushers nud and other attendants engaged and decu pled lie I 1 a in I 1 0 ond lid in connection with gomes games sports porta and amusements excepting performers perform era erx in legitimate con amm jy IrlI nINIS A tu mr nv CR TO ta UK OIL K race I 1 liidi ticket act shop employees emp loye ilace track attendants g clai vo ala ond llio ilm alm ilk y arol g in ifera onal baseball players 4 j or overa operators tors at clubs and f club clu and hotel doormen 5 altein walters ul tein I 1 in motels und ivul clubs w 5 filp ap pp I 1 in it theaters lra 5 nt aborts S li cirona roona rona in do dome itlo service w S ak in stores aloie lr actori 44 cerla boits oleina or theatrical perform nd il persons employed in ill dolli domestic estic aar ice e P silica sales clorice and other oilier clerks employed lit in stores find other mercantile establishments nien men who tire me ns as above or who ho are idlers will mill not bo be permitted tip ti seek relief because of aho liu alint they luo have dinn 11 later order nuin her or bebau they have becil placed tn ili class 11 II ill III or IV on off tho lie grounds of 0 dependency tito iho fiut fact that lo lie 10 Is not usefully en loyed will all outweigh both tc of tiro tile to extend Non useful list it Is that tile lio list of non useful occupations will mill lio be extended front from to time ns as necessity will ro re quire so no na to include persons in other employments absences front regular not to exceed ono one unless such temporary absences are mil anti frequent shall not bo be con ns as idleness regular lorvi ailt not bo be considered na as absences lu in title this connection tito tho ri solution regulation throws a i further lifeguard around men mail not usefully oin cut played ploce by providing that where manre there are domestic doi circumstances that alint would mould not permit change of ciu by tile registrant without its proportionate proportion ato to lila its dupond dep erid cuts or where ix p change from to useful or occupation would mould necessitate a removal of the alia reg or ills hta family faintly local boards inny give consideration to the cir curn stances i tito tho regulation further provides provid eq lint where such n change of at employment would mould compel uio the night flight cul employment ploy of women under tinder illicit it board leonrd might deem unsuitable for such employment of women the board may inny take such into consideration in binkinz its do de llalon 11 general crowder explains plan explaining the new regulation and lilt necessity emilty for it general crowder on suld id the VM ling line so BO fur far the alio normal of industrial man power ns as to prevent the enormous iq otie industrial output and nal lonal organization necessary to success there la in it popular demand for or of ronn man power but no dl di draft could bo be imposed at present steps to prohibit idleness ind find occupation will mill bo be welcomed by our people j wo we shall give tho the idlers and men not effectively employed tile tho chill chillace ce bo be tween military service and effective employment every ani in the draft ago age lit at least must work mork or eglit tills this la Is not alono a war or mill tary man ino nenver cover it la Is it i deadly contest of industries and mechanics must copy german machine i germany must not be thought of nil as merely possessing in an army wo we must think of her ter as being tin an ormy dipti army tn in which every factory and loom lit in tile tho empire Is a recognized part in it complete machine macli lne running night flight and lay day it at terrific speed wo must make of ourselves the same sort of effective machine it Is not enough to ask what would happen if every man in tile tho nation turned ids his blind liand to effective work mork we wa must make ourselves effective we V must organize for lie ho future we roust must make vast withdrawals for tile tho aminy and immediately close up lit 1110 innas of industry behind the gnp with tin an accelerating production of every useful thing lit in necessary measure how la Is tills this to bo be dono done tile the answer Is plain the first stop toward the lie solution of the difficulty la ili to prohibit engagement by able bodied men tn in tile lie field of hurtful employment Idle neng or ineffectual employment and thus induce all and pors uddo tile vast wasted excess into useful the very cry situation wo are now considering si fil however lio Mover offers great kossl belittles blitt les in improvement of tho ilia draft ni as well ns as great possibilities for ills hi composition of the lie labor situation by effective of tho the draft considering the selective service law we see sec two ta principal causes of detriment of tho the call to military service exemption anad the order numbers n signed by lot exemptions exemption in two categories tile ilie exemptions themselves full fail into two conspicuous cate categories gorles s dependency and industrial employment ono protects domestic relations ionn the other the economic interests of tile tho nation between the two there Is nn an inevitable It latus for it Is in demonstrably true that thousands if not ti millions jillions of at dependency exemptions have no effect of industrial protection whatever one of tho the unanswerable criticisms of the draft bus been that it takes men from the farms and from nil fill useful employ nalta and marches them past crowds of idlers and lenfers to tho the army tho the remedy Is simple to couple tile tho basis with other grounds for exemption and requIre to hint any man pleading exemption on oil tiny ground shall olto also abow that ho he Is ing effectively to the industrial welfare 0 of the nation r |