Show CALL TO paramount duty to aid work of boards can perform great service to county py by helping 1 work of f classifying if registrants rants under the selective pervice act allro fogt general crowder Cr oder linn ninde public a nd dressed li ossed to employers of labor and other representatives of industry ludu stry throughout tile the country concerning their share of responsibility in the classification of the now new registrants under the selective service act general beneral crowder says 1 I have ag noticed in the general ex Dress lons of the public attitude which teace this flits office two frequent features which lend lue to the ho present comments liten tg ono one of these features Is the bellef that tho the process of awarding deferred classification to a registrant re quires merely tile the filling ailing out of the question naive and that flint the selective service boards will perceive the propriety of making tho the deferment without tho the assistance furnished by the registrants formal claim indicating tile deferment desired desire the other fa turc lure Is the employers failure to realize lils its responsibility to intervene in hiding the boards determination and therefore to inform himself fully on oa ell tile io considerations which should affect the lh decision as to deferment 1 As 0 to o the first mentioned belief it must he be pointed out that if it were acted upon the process of classification would bo be seriously hampered liam and delily delayed ed someone must in diante that hat the lie individual case casa Is one which velch should arrest the he special attention of the lie boards in respect to tho the registrants occupational status the boards donot do not possess n superhuman human boards will make examination the boards will do nil all that they hoy possibly can on their own initiative to rench a just decision hy fly n cop complete examination of the questionnaire oven even where no claim Is expressly made A registrant Is therefore nt at liberty if lie ho spes sees it at to trust tn in the scrutiny of tile boar to 11 scover the necessity for his derval allt the hp boards will wel oine edme and will need till all the aid that flint can be furnished furn phed by the Indi indication catlon of il ciffin mude for deform nt with tills this old tile hp process will become a simple and aly 1 one 2 why should the employer or oth third ierson IQ person in such cases make because the em employer plover in till alita represents lie ho nation tic because causo in the lie statutory the llie of the military establishment or of national interest during aaring the pin emergency orgen cyll requires flint flome well narl ed third person should look after that lint national in interest terest which the ifie registrant himself may not have considered it 19 a often forgotten that the se selective jec draft Is only one element in lie be depletion cletion of n particular manpower man power A second and large me cle trient la Is found in tile the voluntary withdrawals ith w dra wals for enlistment flow large this 1 ai q may lie be seen from the lie circumstance ahat tile total Induct inductions louR hy by draft have reached some rome while tile 10 lo totne enlistments in army anny and navy to some imme 1 henrly three fers ns as many A third element elein ent very large but unknown ns am to its precise extent b lina been the he transfer of labor tower power front from one industry to another into the ho distinctively in offering the inducement ot of li lelier wages now relatively small sini ill in III actual effect tills lins been beell tile the effect of the selve selective tive draft Is seen in the fact hint for till nil tho the represented in he flip classified r Is franti of january 1018 the p percentage of tho the entire industrial lien represented hy by the flip class I 1 reals arants trants amounted to only 0 6 per cent it ran ns as low ns as 1 per rent cent for some occupations cupat ions and correspondingly higher for some other occupations but thi the national was only 0 6 per cent any notably larger depletion depiction in particular industries must therefore linver fic endue partly to enlistments and in probably grantor degree to voluntary transfers into other industries must remember nations needs these other oilier influences tire therefore to 6 be kept in mind by employers anti and others ethers in weighing the lie question cheth er cr tho the best solution lit in the national interest Inter esst la is to ask for tho the defer deferment meni ot of individuals or groups of men suell such deferments may assist the immediate situation lit in the particular anent but they merely force the army und and the navy clavy to seek elsewhere for the same number r of men inon thus deferred the quantitative needs need of the military forces tire are known and tin lve and tiny any given quantity of deferments will ultimately have to be bilile up tip by the dep depletion letlon of some other occupation thus it becomes becom A the employers duty to consider these aspects of in seeking tha flint solution lution 89 of his h B own problem which best besl comforts comports com comp ports with the national interest the cessation of enlistments will henceforth protect industry against one irregular and uncontrollable flounce of derangement it will correspondingly spon throw upon the selective 0 ervice system the 16 i renter responsibility for nn an and d aini selection ninde in the light of 01 groell groups of 0 workers wor hera to fulfill this till r they must lust now pre paril themselves even more earn car fully than labarto lb arto ill ey walid wH i lid JA the ha boa 1 adi Vei rilly ready to cai co with their 16 to the ale utmost 0 V |