Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-06-28
WORK OR FIGHT
ORDER EXPLAINED.
GENERAL cRoWDER ISSUES IN
sTRUcTIoNs TO DRAFT BOARDS
REGARDING REGULATIONS.
Local Officials Requested to Assist
Registrants In Seeking Work as
Shifts Are Made-Common Sense
to Govern In All Cases.

washington. - Instructions TO draTe
boards were issued on June 81 by Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder, ex-
planning and simplifying the work or
fight order under which, after July /,
all men of draft age, regardless Of
their classification, must engage in en-
ployment held to be productive or join
the army.
"When 1t has been determined that
person In deferred classification is an
idler, or Is engaged in non-productive
service" says the instructions, "the
classification and order numbers of
such persons will be withdrawn, and he
will be Immediately indicted into the
military service
Several specific rulings are made as
to the effect of the order on certain
classes named as non-productiye. In
the case of sports and amusements, the
language of the order IS repeated with
emphasis, but without mentioning pro-
fessional baseball, an expected an
nouncement concerning which had been
awaited with keen and widespread in
terest. In making public the instruc-
tions, however, the officials of General
Crowder's office said baseball playing
lat present" is regarded as non-pro-
ductive, though there will be no ruling
until an individual case has been
appealed from local board.
Some Exemptions.
Managers, cooks, clerks and other
employees not engaged in the actual
serving of food and drink in public
places are exempted from the section
declaring such service of food and
drink non-productive. Store executives,
managers, superintendent and heads
of special departments, travelling sales
men, registered pharmacists. delivery
drivers, and men doing heavy work are
not included among the clerks and
statesmen of mercantile establishments
classed as productive.
Chauffeurs, public and private" are
eliminated from the non-productive
class unless they engage In work held
to be non-productive in addition to
their mechanical duties. This feature
of the instructions attracted attention
because 1t would class as useful fam
lily chauffeur who performed no Other
| service, and would send him into the
army II he also acted as butler OF
handy man around the house.
The regulations provide that persons
engaged in the service of food anC
drink, or either, in public places, In
Guiding hotels and social clubs, are en-
gageu In non-productive employment
This. however, does not include man
ayers, clerks, cooks or other employees
unless they are engaged In the actua
serving of food and drink.
"The regulations further provid,
that passenger elevator operators am
attendants and dOormen, footmen, car
riage openers and other attendants II
clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses
office buildings and bath houses, ar
engaged In non-productive employ
ments. The words other attendants
include bellboys and also include pOr
tiers, unless such porters are engages
in heavy work.
As to Domestic Service.
"The regulations further provide
that person engaged in domestic
service is engaged in non-productiv'
employment or occupation, but thi
does not inclue public or private chauf
feurs, unless they should be engages
in some other occupation or employ
ment defined as non-productive.
1.-THE regulations further provide
that sales clerks and other clerks EN-
ployed in stores and other mereantil
establishments are engaged in non-pro
ductive employments, but this does no
include store executives, managers
superintendent nor the lead of sue
departments as accounting, financial
advertising, credit, purchasing, deliv
cry, receiving, shipping and other dc
partments; does not include registere
pharmacists employed In wholesale an
retail drug establishments, and doe
not include travelling statesmen, buyers
delivery drivers, electricians, eng
neers, carpet layers, upholsterers, no
any employees doing heavy work GU
side the usual duties of clerks. How
ever, sales clerks ard other clerks II
clude the clerical force in the OffiC
and in all departments of stores an
mercantile establishments. The word
stores and other mercantile establish
ments' include both wholesale and n
tail stores and mercantile establish
ments engaged in selling goods an
wares
Boards are instructed to give Il
agents Of the United States emplO
ment service lists of the names of re
istrants who have been summoned fl
examination under the order
New Bread RlOts In Vienna.