The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-30
General Cr0Wder Issues New
Regulations Effective July !, to
Coordinate War Industries.
AFFECTS DRAFTED men
Those Already Registered Included In
New Order - Store Clerks, Wait
ers, Bartenders, Elevator Operat-
ors and Others Are Included.

Fl, Washington, May 25.-Under a
drastic amendment to the selective
service regulations every man Of draft
age must work or fight, Provost Mar
shall General E. H. Crowder an.
nounced.
Not only oilers, but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held to be
nonessential occupations are to be
hailed before local draft boards and
given the choice of a new job or the
army.
Gamblers, racetrack and bucketshop
attendants and fortune tellers head
the list. But those who will be reach
ed by the new regulation also include
clerks in stores, d0mestics, walters
and bartenders, theatre ushers and at
tendants, passenger elevator operat-
Ors and other attendants. Professional
baseball players also may be affected
by the order.
Deferred classification granted on
account of dependents will be disre-
garded entirely in applying the rules.
A man may be at the bottom OF Class
1 or even in Class 4. But If he falls
within the regulation and refuses to
take useful employment he will be
given a new number in Class 1 that
will send him into the military service
forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use
discretion only where they find that
enforced change of employment would
result in dsproportionate hardship
upon his dependents.
Move Long Expected.
1t had been known for some time
that some form of work or fight" pla1
had been submitted to President Will
son, but there had been no intima'
ton that it was so farreaching in
scope. Both the military authorities
and the department OF labor officials
believe that it will 60 long way
toward solving the labor problem for
farmers, shipbuilders and munition
makers, and will end for the present
ut least talk Of CONSUMPTION of labor,
The announcement gives notice
significantly that the list of non-use-
full occupations will be extended from
time to time as necessity requires.
War DISCREPANCIES Industry.
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for it, General Crowder
said:
1.-THE war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment Of industrial
man power as to prevent the enor-
nous industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
"There is a popular demand for
organization of man power but no
direct draft could be imposed at pres.
ent.
Steps to prohibit idleness and non
essential occupation will be welcomed
by our people.
a. ldlers to Get Choice.
1--WE shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effective
employment. Every man, in the draft
age, at least, must work or fight.
"This is not alone a war of military
maneuver. 1t Is deadly contest OF
Industries and mechanics. Germany
must not be. thought of as merely
possessing al army, we must think
OF her as being an army-an army
in which every factory and loom In
the empire is recognized part in
a complete machine running night
and day at terrific speed. We must
make of ourselves the same sort of
effective machine"