| Show CALL TO EMPLOYERS paramount duty to aid work of selective boards can perform great service to country by helping work of classifying registrants under the selective service act provost Al marshal arshal general crowder lins lias made public a communication addressed to employers of labor and ot other II 11 representatives of industry throng throughout il the country concerning their share of responsibility in tile the classification of the new registrants under the selective service net general crowder says I 1 have noticed in tile the general e expressions ic pres press lons of the public attitude which reach this office two frequent features which blell lead me to the present comments one of these features is tit the belief that the process of awarding deferred classification to a registrant requires fe merely the out of tile the questionnaire and that the selective service boards will perceive tile the propriety of making the deferment iltis without the assistance furnished by tile registrants formal claim indicating the def deferment ement desired the other feature Is the employers failure to realize his responsibility to intervene in aiding the boards det determination ernil nation and therefore to inform illin himself gelf fully on all the considerate consi considerations derat ions which should affect the decision as to deferment 3 1 As to the first mentioned belief it must be pointed out that if it were universally upon the process 0 of f cht would be seriously hampered and delayed someone must indicate that the individual case is one arrest the special attention of the hoards boards in in respect to the registrants occupational occupations st status statu atu the hoards boards do not possess coq ess a superhuman omniscience omnis cence boards will make examination the hoards boards will do 10 all that they possibly can on oil their own initiative to reach a just decision by a complete examination of the questionnaire bevc even n whore no claim Is expressly made A registrant Is therefore at liberty if lie he ces fit to trust to the scrutiny of the hoar boar Is to discover the necessity for 11 his 1 deferment I 1 nevertheless the hie boards will welcome ind and will need all tile aid that can he be furni furnished died by the indication of 1 a 11 claim mude made for deferment with this aid the process will become a simple and speedy one 0 2 why should the employer or other third person in such caze cases ninke make the claim because the employer in this situation represents the nation because in the statutory phrase the maintenance of the military establishment or of nat national ionnI ln interest luring during the emerz emergency ency requires require that some rome well advised third person should look after that national interest which the registrant himself may not lia have ve sufficiently considered tt it Is often forgotten that hat the selective draft iz Is only one element in the depletion of a 1 particular lar indu manpower man min power A k second and large element Is found in the voluntary withdrawals for enlistment how large tills this Is may be spen scon from the that the total inductions by draft have readied sonic some while tile ule the total enlistments enlistment in army and navy amount to 0 one ono nearly three tet it as ninny many A third element Ile Clit very large but unknown as to its precise lias is been the transfer rang fer of labor 11 power from one industry to nn another other tin namely mely into the distinctively IN iely war industries dus tries offering the inducement rt higher wages now relatively iiii small ill in actual effect has been tile the effect of the lie the biart liart I 1 Is scon in the hie fact that for all th the occupations occupation represented in h lie registrant of january 1918 tho the percentage of the lie entire population represented by the lie class clas 1 registrants nino tinted to only 6 per cent tt it nn oa low as 3 per cent for some come oc la 1 1 41 l correspondingly higher cupat ti pation lons a 2 fl Z but tit for cot some other national average was onla 6 p berhl i e ajl it ii i any notably larger declet depletion jolt in partle tiler industries must therefore have been due partly to enlistments and in probably greater degree to voluntary transfers into other industries must remember nations needs these other influences are arc therefore C to be k kept apt in mind by employers mid and others lit in wel weighing liln the question whether the best solution lit in the national I 1 In interest is to ask for the deferment of individuals or groups group 4 of men deferments may inny assist the immediate ittin tion lit in the particular establish went ment but they merely force the lie army and the navy to seek elsewhere forthe for the same number of men mail thus deferred ohp quantitative needs of the military forces force tire are known and imperative pera tive an and any given quantity of will ultimately line to be mado made up hy by the depletion of some other occupation thus it beC tile the employers eMployer 9 duty to consider these aspects of deferment in seeking ee king that thai solution ol ution of his own problem which be bert comperts comports com ports etli with the national interest the cessil cessation tion of enlistments will henceforth protect Inthis industry try against one irregular ind and uncontrollable kuiee or of derling piment it will correspondingly spon throw upon the selective service system the lie greater for un an intelligent and iff selection made ln 41 the lie light of groups of workers to fulfill this i responsibility they foust now prepare themselves even more carefully than lian hitherto they will tile lie ds heartily rendy to t cu co oper operia tt viall client to we the util utmost lost |
