Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-23
lAsoR soARDs INSTRUCTED TO
LIST MEN m NON ESSENTIAL
WORK.
DRAcric MEASURES DUE
TO MEET LABOR DEMANDS
Men Who Rsfuss 70 Engage in Nscss-
saey Work 70 De Publicly Rspri-
mandsd-Win De Looked UP BY
Proper Autheritiss-Next Large
Draft Call TO d For Men For Navy.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. Sept. 2s-Drastic In
structions to community labor boards
to post the names OF all men who fail
or refuse 20 get out Of what is classed
as non essential work and into essen
tial war work are being mailed out
from Washington oy Nathan A. Smyth,
director general Of the United States
employment service. Announcement
to this effect was made today by H.
j. Metcalf. state director Of the COM
munity labor boards in IOWA.
1t is expected these Constructions will
reach community labor boards early.
this week. The announcement sent out
from Washington and made public to-
day declares that the present million
and half labor shortage. both skilled
and unskilled. in war industries. with
an increasing army coming. is making
necessary drastic measures in the way
OF placing men In essential industries.
Nathan A. Smyth. assistant
director general Of the United States
employment service. is mailing out the
most drastic instructions ever issued
in this country to all community labor
boards instructing them to prepare and
publish lists Of non essential positions
now held by men that could be filled
by women" says the announcement.
''The result will be that men fail
ing or refusing TO get out OF slc:, posi-
tions OF their own accord and take up
essential work will be looked upon as
To- 81, ~ l.
the hand Of both non essential labor
and employers thereof. 1t probably
will include clerks. Office help. ticket
sellers OF all kinds. attendants and
similar occupations.
This is In line with Crowder's work
or fight order with instructions already
issued for the placing OF women in in
dustry. with the order Of war indus
tries board stopping unnecessary con-
struction. action limiting the banking
business and the taking Of raw mater
ials from nom essential industries.
"Smytf1's order will ultimately be-
come the most drastic Of all for COM
munity labor boards will insist that no
man shall occupy a position which
woman can m This nation must work
or fight and the order is made neces-
sary because employers Of non essen
tial labor have in many cases failed
to meet the issue .squaely.'
Next Call For Men For Navy.
Following the official notification by
General Crowder to all draft boards
the men are hereafter to be drafted
for the navy and marine corps as well
as for the army. 1t is thought that the
next big draft call will. be, for men for
service in the navy.
In fact General Crow1er's letter to
local draft boards now being mailed
out states that calls for men for the
navy will probably be announced by
the last Of September or The first OF
October and also that calls for men
for the marine corps will also. be made
in the next few weeks.
The physical qualifications are to be
strict. Men will not be ,taken who are
afflicted with venereal diseases, who
have transmissable skin diseases. who
are color blind or whose vision with
out glasses is less than fifteen
twentieth in either eye. Nor will men
be taken who are more than seventy
four inches in height. Conscientious OBJ
jectors, men who can not read or who
are not citizens Of the United States
will not be accepted.
General Crowder is also issuing
letter declaring that the practice OF
sending rejected registrants from camp
to camp without re- examination or in
vestisation. in the.hope that they may
somewhere be accepted, and thus NIL
the quota, must be stopped. 1t is re-
norted To state HEADQUARTERS that there
has been more or less Of this sort OF
thing. One Montana man now out at
Fort Des Moines who looies' healthy but
has chronic ailment was sent over
seas and was in hospitals in the rear
Of the army for many months. often
times not far from the front, but was