The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-07-20
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AUGUST 20.
GOVERNOR ISSUES PROCLAMATION ON
COMPULSORY WORK - SHERIFFS
MUST GET DODGERS.

Governor Harrington Wednesday
took the first step in actually putting
rho screws upon those who neither
work nor fight.
He issued a proclamation requiring
,namuIoved able-bodied men between
+bp AGES of IS years and 80 years, with
carraiu exceptions, to register on or
ofrar August 20 name, address, age
and other needed information. The
~agi.rrati0n will be with the clerks of
me circuit courts in the counties and
win the Clerk of the Superior court
in Baltimore City.
On and after August 20 the sheriffs
will begin rounding up the dodgers.
The Governor is determined that those
who do not fight shall work. The loaf
arS eat. and the Governor intends to
do everything in his power to make
Them earn what they eat and not to be
q burden upon the balance of the COM
munitv. There will be fine up to $50
for each idler who does not register,
and if the fine is not paid he will go
70 iail and be registered for work af-
terWaTd.
Anv person who disobeys the Gov
4rnor's assignment to work after the
raqistratiOn shall have been completed
will be subject to a fine up to $500 or
ro Imprisonment up to six months,
with assignment to the work after
ward
great deal of work is to be done
before August 20 in preparing the ma
rhinprv for the registration. Rules
and regulations will be adopted gov
prning the assignment of persons to
work. and the labor field will be sur
yeved to determine the occupations to
which assignments should be made.
The COMPULSORY Work law, under
the authority of which the Governor
is acting, provides that idlers may be
nut to work in occupations carried on
bv the state, Baltimore city or any OF
the counties, or any OF their agencies.
or in occupations carried on by private
persons. firms or corporations, Wheth-
er such occupations be agricultural,
industrial or otherwise, provided that
such occupations are essential to the
welfare and protection of the people
OF the State and nation during the
war
The proclamation is, in part, as fol-
lows:
Persons able to support themselves
by reason of the ownership OF proper
~ or income and those supported by
others are included among those re-
quired to register.
persons falling within the follow
ing descriptions will not be required
to register:
Il. Students and persons hitting
themselves to engage in trade or in
dusuial pursuits.
- Persons temporarily unemploy-
Ell by reasons of differences with their
employers.
"" Persons engaged or employed IN
any SeasOnable business, trade or oc-
cupatfon carried on in Baltimore city
or AlloEany county.
Rules and regulations will be pre-
pared and published governing the as
sIgnmcut Of persons of the descrlp-
ton aforesaid to work, which will as
sure that all persons similarly clrcum-
stanccd shall. as far as 1t is possible
TO do 50. he treated alike.
In due time, and from time to time,
| will proclaim the occupations which
! lind 10 he essential for the prOtec-
ton and welfare of the people of this
State and the United States, and which
find cannot be carried on as the pro-
lection and welfare of the people or
this State and the United States re-
QuiTe without resort to said act"