The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-23
REGISTERED men
MUST Do USEFUL
WORK OR FIGHT
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ply also to gamblers of all descrip-
lions and employees and attendants of
bucket shops, and race tracks, fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, palmists and the
like, who for the purpose of the reg
ulations shall be considered as idlers.
1.-THE new regulations will also af-
feet the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels and no
tel clubs.
"Gb) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants, doormen, footmen and
other attendants of clubs, hotels, stores,
apartment houses, Office buildings and
bath houses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants engaged and occu-
pied in connection with games, sports
and amusements, except actual per-
formers in legitimate concerts, OPP
eras or theatrical performances.
"(d) Persons employed in domestic
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
who are idlers will not be permitted
to seek relief because of the fact that
they have drawn later order num-
Der or because they have been plac-
ed in class II, III or " on the
grounds of dependency. The tact
that he is not usefully employed will
outweigh both of the above cond1-
tons.
at is expected that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity VIII
require so as to include persons in
other employments.
Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed one week
| unless such temporary absences axe
habitual and frequent, shall not De
considered as id1eness. Regular va
cations will not be considered as ao-
sences in this connection.
'"The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed by promising that where
there are compelling domestic cir
cumstances that would not permit
| change of employment by the regis
trant without disproportionate hard
ship to his dependents, or where
! change from non-useful to useful en-
| ployment or occupation would necessl-
| tate a removal of the registrant OF
his family, local boards may give
| consideration to the circumstances
| The regulation further provides thai
| such a change of employment woulC
compel the night employment OF Wo'
men under circumstances which E
board might deem not suitable fol
| employment of women, the board may
take such circumstances into con
sideration in making its decision"
Explaining the new regulation, Gen
Crowder said:
s"The war has so far disorganizet
the normal adjustment of industrial
man power as to prevent the enor'
nous industrial output aT1 nationa
organization necessary to success.
There is a popular demand for or
ganization of man power, but no di-
rect draft could be imposed at pres
ent.
Steps to prohibit ,idleness and non
effective occupation will be welcomed
by our people.
eve shall give the id1ers and mer
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effective
Unemployment Every man in the draft
age at least must work or fight.
This is not alone a war of mill
tary vancouver. It is a deadly con
test of industries and mechanics. Ger
many must not be thought of as mere
ly possessing an army. We mus
think of her as being an army-a1
army in which every factory and loon
/ in the empire is a recognized part il
a complete machine running nigh
and day at terrific speed. We mus
make of ourselves the same sort O
effective machine.
'It is enough to ask what would
happen if every man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work. w
must make ourselves effective. w
must organize for the future. w
must make vast Withdrawals for tn
army and Immediately close up tn
ranks of industry behind the gal
with an accelerating production o
every useful thing in necessary meas
ure. How is this to be done? TIL
answer is plain. The first step towart
the solution of the difficulty is t.
prohibit engagement by able bodice
men in the field of hurtful employ
ment, idleness or Intellectual employ
ment, and thus induce and persuad
the vast wasted excess into usefu
fields.
"The very situation we are nov
hnUUaEaT nffnTS orroaf
sibilities in improving the draft, a
well as great possibilities for the com
position of the labor situation by eff
{ fective administration of the draf
, Considering the selective service Law
we see two principal causes of defer
ment to the call to military service
exemption and the order numbers as
signed by lot. The exemptions them
: selves fall into two conspicuous cate
gories, dependency and industrial EN-
ployment. One protects domestic re
lations, the other the economic in
a terests of the nation. Between tn
, two there is an inevitable hiatus, 70
it is demonstrably true that thou
q sands, if not millions of pedendenc
, exemptions have no effect of indus
trial deferment whatever.
zone of the unanswerable criticism
of the draft has been that it take
men from the farms and from all use
q full employments and marches ther
s, past crowds of idlers and 1oafers ava
: to the army. The remedy is simpl
" to couple the industrial basis wit
/. other grounds for exemption and
: require that any man pleading exemI
d ton on any ground shall also sho7
s that he is contributing effectively t
g the industrial welfare of the nation
'. THE regulation itself makes plat