The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-06-21
SPORTS NOT
USEFULRULES
GEN. CR0WDER
Travelling Statesmen Classed as
-
Engaged in Productive EN-
ployment by Government
WATERS NOT NECESSARY

Washington, June 2l.-Provost
Marshal General Crowder today called
for 8,976 draft registrants qualified for
general military service, tot be sent
on July Is to various schools for
special training. The call is to be held
open for volunteers until July l.
New regulations issued to draft
boards today by Provost Marshal Gen.
eral Crowder to govern application OF
the work or fight order, do not rule
specifically upon the status OF pro.
fessional baseball players or other
classes which may be affected, but
emphasize the section Of the order
placing games and sports among the
occupations assed as nOn-useful
In an oral statement announcing the
regulations, officials of General
CrOwder's office said: AT tpresent' the
occupation of baseball player is re-
garded as productive but that un-
til a case had been appealed from a
local board there would be no ruling
on the subject. ~. 49,.
Local boards will consider cases OF
withdrawal of deferred classifications
with common sense" General Crowd
er's instructions say, and they name
illness, vacations, the impossioility Of
securing productive employment with
out change of residence as reason.
able grounds for waving the general
order. Travelling statesmen will be
considered as engaged in productive
employment but automobile statesmen
in cities will not, it was explained.
Local boards are asked to assist
registrants to obtain new employment
through the federal employment SER
vice and are given power to postpone
action while effort Is being made to
place men in occupations held pro.
ductiv
"When 1t has been determined that
a person in deferred classificatiOns is
an idler or is engaged in non-produc-
tive employment the instructions
say, the classification and order num-
Der of such person will be withdrawn
and he will Immediately be inducted
into the military service"
Hits Walters.
The regulations provide that per-
sons engaged in the service OF food
and drink, or either in public places,
including hotels and social clubs, are
engaged in non-productive employ
ment. This, however, does not In
clude managers, clerks, cooks or 9th.
er employees, unless they are en-
gagged in the actual serving Of food
and drink.
THAT passenger elevator operators
and attendants in clubs, hotels, stores,
apartment houses, office buildings and
bath houses, are engaged In nOn-pr0'
ductive empl0yments. The words
other attendants include bellboys
and also include porters unless such
porters are engaged in heavy work
THAT persons including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and 0ccu-
pied in and in connection with games,
sports and amusements, excepting act
ual performers in legitimate concerts,
operas, or theatrical performances,
are engaged in non. productive occupa.
tions or employments This includes,
in additio 10 ushers and other attend
ants. all persons engaged and occu-
pied in games, sports and amuse-
ments, except actual performers in
legitimate cO"certs, operas or theatric-
al performances.
"That person engaged in domestic
service is engaged in nOn.prOduc-
tive employment or occupation but
this does not include public or pri'
vate chauffeurs, unless they should
also be engaged in some other occu.
patton or employment defined as non.
productive.
Clerks Non.Produetive.
"That sales clerks and other clarks
employed in stores and other mercan.
tile establishments are engaged in
non.productive> employments, but this
does no include store executives,
managers. superintendent nor the
hetads Of such departments as &C.
counting. financial, advertising, credit,
purchasing. delivery, receiving, ship
ping and other departments; noes not
include registered pharmacists EN-.
ployed in wholesale and retail drug es-
Establishments; and does not include
travelling salesr.en. buyers. delivery
drivers, electricians. engineers, carpet
layers, upnolsterers nor any employees
doing ehavy work outside the usual
duties of clerks. However. sales
clerks and other clerks include the
clerical force in the office and in all
departments of stores and mercantile
establishments. The words "stores
and other mercantile establishments
include both wholesale and retail
stores and mercantile establishments
engaged in selling goods and wares"