The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-23
WORK OR Fight !.
RULE 1SEkIENDED.
TONqyDE MANY
important Notifications Of Regu-
Iation Received In Gable
Message From CroWdef
LARGE NUMBER ARE
AFFECTED BY CHANGES
List Of Non-ProduCtive 0ccupa
tons Is Enlarged - Non7Es-
SentaIS Must Find New lob

New and important notifications and
explanations Of the "Work or Fight"
regulations were received yesterday AZ.
ternOon by cable by Capt. VI. Gooding
Field, selective draft officer of the Ter
ritory, from Provost Marshal General
CrOwder, of Washington. These latest
rules appreciably extend the work or
Fight" rules to include a great many,
who, by the first reading of the regula-
tions, were excluded from its provi.
si6hs.
Because Of that the message received
by Captain Field is of very great in
terest both to employees and employers
in the Islands
How They Stand 1
For the purpose of making the status
of the "Work or Fight" rule plain as
1t now stands, the original selective
service regulations are here given, and
the text, in full, of the cable received
yesterday which modifies them, read.
ing will enable both employers and en-
Dloyes to know just where they stand.
What the Law Says
Section pix of the regulations de-
fines non productive occupation or en-
plOyment as follows: p g..
In the present emergency it is not
possible 10 extend the protection Of de-
ferred classification to those registrants
engaged in certain occupations or en-
| Payments which are nonproductiye.
"There is a great demand for labor
in all productive occupations and en-
Payments, and especially in agricul-
ture and other necessary industries.
! Therefore, rAgstrants who have been
| given deferred classification and who
can engage in some productive occupa-
| ton or employment without substan
| tial financial loss or hardship to them
selves or others should be willing to
seek some productive Occupation or
| employment or enter the military ser
vice rather than remain in an occupa-
! ton or employment i'll which they are
rendering no effective assistance to the
| Nation.
of a registrant is idle, he, of course,
is not occupied or employed at ALL and
his status of idleness furnishes ground
for the withdrawal of his deferred
classification or late order number; and
the regulations applicable to idle regis
trants shall he deemed applicable also
TO gamblers of all description and EN-
plOycs of race tracks and bucket shops,
and to fortune trllersJ clairvOyRnts,
palmistB, and the like, who, for the pur
1poses Of these regulations, shall be con
sidcred as oilers.
"ThC employment or engagement of
any able bodied registrant of military
age in any of the following occupations
or emplOyments is not sufficiently effec
tive, in the present emergency, to JUST
fly the postpOBement of his call into
military service, Notwithstanding he
may have a late order number and not
wthstanding he may have been placed
in Glass Ii, Ill, or ~ on the ground
of dependency; and all registrants en-.
gagged as follows are TO be considered
by local and district boards as engaged
IN nOnprOductivc occupations or employ
mcnts:
Must Change Work
GAY Persons engaged in the serving
of food and drink, or either, in
public places, including hotels
and social clubs;
| (h) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants; and door men,
footmcn, carriage openers and
other attendants in clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses office
buildings, and lighthouses;
lcD Persons, including ushcrs and
other attendants, engaged and
occupied in and in connection
with games, sports, and nmusr.
mcnts, excepting actual perform.
crS in legitimate concerts, operas,
or theatrical performances;
(d) Persons employed in domestic
service;
(eJ Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mrr.
camille establishments
The New Notifications
The full text of the message modi
flying and explaining the above is:
~. Paragraph A of Section l9l X
does not include managers or clerks
cooks or other employees, unless they
are engaged in the service of food and
drink or either.
''2. The words 'Other attendants
in paragraph b of Section l2l X in
cludr bell boys and also include por
tiers unless such pOrteTs are engaged in
heavy work.
"3. Paragraph G of Section l2I
Includes, in addition to ushers, and 9th
wv "'oi''o1 hiA pNISOho NllkdRNh uuh
occupied in games, sports and amusc
mrnts, except actual performers in lrgi
Inmate concerts, operas OF theatrical
IrI formers.
-. Paragraph ID of Section l2l h
does not include public or private
chauffeurs unless they are also engaged
in other Occupations or employment,
Ie" 9eS ,hXy pSsr sgYpti94 ~, I'Qu
In Down Town Stores
IS. Paragraph f of Section III X
does not include store executives man
ayers, superintendent, nor the hrud,
Of such departments as accounting
financial, advertising, credit, purrhns
ing, delivery, receiving, shipping aur
other departments; does not III, lud,
registered pharmacists emplovrd II
wholesale and retail drug stores o.
establishments, and does not in, hd,
travelling statesmen, buyers, delivery
drivers, electricians, engiueers, cnrprt
layers, uph"l>trrrrs, nor any ,ImIluy,
doing heavy work outside Abe umu
duties Of clerks
SO. The words Sales CLERKS an,