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Show II OF DRAFT If TO WORKQR FIGHT THOSE WHO WILL NOT WORK WILL EE PUT INTO ARMY, DECLARES GEN. CROWDER. Not Only Idlers, But Draft Registrants Engaged in Non-useful Occupations Occupa-tions to be Haled Before Local Boards. i ' Washington. Every man of draft jage must work or fight after July 1, (under a drastic amendment to the selective se-lective service regulations announced Way 23 by Provost Marshal General Crowder. Not only idlers, hut all draft registrants regis-trants engaged in what are held to be non-useful occupations, are to be haled before local boards and given the choice of a new job or the army. Gamblers, race track and bucketshop Attendants and fortune followers bead the list, but those who will be reached tiy the new regulations also include waiters and bartenders, theater ushers and attendants, passenger elevator operators' and other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores, etc., domestics and clerks in stores. Deferred classification granted on account of dependents will be disre-- disre-- garded entirely in applying the rule. A man may be at the bottom of class 1, or even in class 4, but if he falls within the regulation and refuses to take useful employment he will be given a new number in class 1 that will send him into the military service forthwith. Local boards are authorized author-ized to use discretion only where they find that enforced change of employment employ-ment would result in disproportionate 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 intima-tion that it was so far reaching in (scope. Both the military authorities and department of labor officials believe be-lieve that it will go a long way toward solving the labor problem for farmers, farm-ers, shipbuilders and munition makers, and will end, for the present at least, talk of conscription of labor. The an-onnouneement an-onnouneement gives notice significantly signific-antly that the list of non-useful occupations occu-pations will be extended from time to time as necessity requires. |