The sun., 1918-09-05
EXEMPT CLASS
IS BR0ADENED
CrOwder Is Expected to Ex-
plain To-day New Draft
Regulations.
WILSON GUIDES POLICY
District Boards Will Have
Many Industrial Advisers
and Wealth Of Data.
WILSON GUIDES POLICY
Special Despdtch TO The sux.

Special Despdtch TO The SuN.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.-President Will
son has approved the regulations which
are to guide the draft and district boards
in the task Of selecting from the 13.ooo.-
900 men expected to register September
IL those who are to make UP the new
armies Of the republic.
Provost Marshal General Crowder Is
expected to announce and explain some
Of the new regulations tomorrow.
There Is no disposition even at the
White House to underrate the impor-
lance Of the duty confronting the draft
boards. The problem was gone over
again to-day by the President and his
advisers making up the war cabinet.
Policy to He Followed.
In a general way the policy to be fol-
lowed will be this:
First, while allowing control abso-
lutely to remain with the district boards.
so far as exemptions go. to supply these
boards with Industrial and economic ad-
visers and with facts and figures based
on nationwide survey OF conditions
made by the War Industries Board. the
Labor Department and other central
agencies.
Second. TO see that no man Is taken
from a place when he cannot be spared
from the standpoint of national welfare
even though no application for exemp-
ton Is made by the individual in ques-
tion.
Presentation OF the Industrial needs
Of the country upon which this policy Is
based will be entrusted to a committee
on the relations between the military
and industrial requirements. This COM
mittee already has headquarters here
and h headed by Charles h. Neave. On
1t are representatives of the Provost
Marshal General and the War Labor
Administration.
This central committee is TO have a
representative to act as an adviser for
each OF the district boards of the coun-
try. 1t will be these district boards
that will exempt men for Industrial as
we'll as social reasons.
COrnerstone Already Laid.
The determination OF the essentially
of Industries and occupations has al
ready been made In a general way by
the War Industries Board. This will
be the cornerstone for the plan for In
dustrial exemption. Sixty-nlne groups
of industries deemed necessary are
comprised in this plan which will be
announced next Monday.
These groups are again divided into
four classes with respect to the relative
Importance Of their products. The groups
comprise INDUSTRIES whose continuation
throughout the period of the war Is
deemed essential. There are In addi-
tion some $500 industries having a
temporary status as essential due to
their execution of certain war orders.
This status may be changed at any
time. however, but while 1t remains their
labor needs will be taken care of by the
district board. Included In the essen
tial groups are many industries not en-
gagged in turning out war supplies, but
whose maintenance Is essential to the
needs Of the civil population. News
papers, for example, have been deemed
essential to the public welfare and have
been placed In the fourth class of es-
sential industries.
Determining Factor.
Mere employment In an Industry com.
ing within any OF these groups will not
of itself be sufficient cause for exemp-
tion from military service The essen-
TALLY Of the services of the individual
to the maintenance Of that industry is
to be the determining factor. Employers
will be expected to file requests for ex-
emption for those regarded as indispens-
able to the conduct Of their business.
The exemption Of the highly trained
officials OF banks, trust companies and
| other financial institutions from military
service on the ground OF their employ
ment In essential industry will be pos
sibie under the War Departments in
depreciation OF the notifications written
into the mas power law.
Many other occupations and employ
ments not heretofore regarded by local
boards as warra lting deferred classIfi.
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