The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-24
Gen. Crowder More Explicit
as to Who Are So
Regarded
DOES NOT AFFECT
DEPARTMENT HEADS
Does Include Clerks in Office and Every
Department Of Stores and Mercantile
tive July l.

tive July !.
Copies of telegram from Provost |
Marshal General Crowder relative to the |
withdrawal of the deferred classification |
of registrants found to be idlers or en-
gagged in non-productive occupations have
just been issued by Acting Adiutant Gen
eral Herbert T. johnson of Montpelier |
To understand the telegram it is neces-
sary to know who are considered by Gen. |
Crowder as engaged in non-productive oc
equations, and therefore the designations
as given in section l2lK in the selective
service regulations are reprinted here
with:
la Persons engaged in serving of
food or drink, or either, in public places,
including hotels and social clubs;
(b) Passenger elevator, operators and
attendants; and door men, footmen
carriage openers and other attendants in
clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses,
office buildings and lighthouses;
| (c1 Persons, including ushers and
other attendants. engaged and occupied
in and in connection with games, sports,
and amusements, excepting actual per-
formers in legitimate concerts. operas. or
theatrical performances;
| Id Persons employed in domestic
service;
| lei Sales clerks and other clerks en-
ployed in stores and other mercantile es
Establishments.
Gen. Crowder's telegram in explanation
of the above is as follows:
! I'm the administration and enforcement
of the amendments to Seiective Service
Regulations which become effective July
| LIST. 1918, and which provides for the
withdrawal of deferred classification and
order number of registrants found to be
idlers or engaged in non productive oc-
Icupations or employment,s You are in
strueted as follows:
] 4. Paragraph Ia, of section l2lk
does not include managers. clerks, cooks,
or other employees unless they are en-
gagged in the service of food. and drink or
either.a tes.t' u'F
- The words other attendants in
paragraph tbl of section l2lk include
bell boys, and also include porters. unless
isuch porters are engaged in heavy work.
3. Paragraph tcl of section l2lK in
lcludes, in addition to ushers and other
attendants, all persons engaged and oc-
cuped in games, sports and amusements,
Except actual performers in legitimate
concerts, operas, or theatrical perform
anees.
II. Paragraph Id of section l2lk
does not include public or private ehauf
feurs unless they are also engaged in
other occupations or employments de-
fined by these regulations as non produc-
tive
- Paragraph (e) of section l2lk
does not include store executives, man
! Iagers, superintendent, nor the heads OF
such departments as accounting, fnan.
j Il iai, advertising, credit, purchasing, de
livery, receiving, shipping. and other de
partments: does not include registered
! pharmacists employed in wholesale anf
retail drug stores or establishments: and
! does not include travelling statesmen
buyers, delivery drivers, electricians en-
, gineers, carpet layers, upholsterers, no
ANY employees doing heavy work OUTSIDE
the usual duties of clerks.
6 The words sales clerks aud othe
clerks in paragraph te) of section l2lf
do include the clerical forces in the office
and in all departments of stores and mer
lcantile establishments.
Il. The words stores and other mer
icautile establishments in paragraph le
lof section I2lk include both wholesal
and retail stores and mercantile estab
llishments engaged in selling goods an
!. wares.
y .'S In addition in the cases where rea
= : Isonable excuses may be accepted for tn
I temporary idleness or for being engage
!, in reproductive occupation or EN-
y ployment, local and district boards hav
!" authority under the regulations to with
hold or postpone action for "a reasonabl
. time in cases where it appears that tn
registrant, in good faith, is, or has beer
e seeking productive employment. and tina
- such reasonable postponement will Ell
y y able him to secure such employment
y - Local boards are instructed to &C
operate with the state directors of I'll
:. :, United States employment service, {
- local agents of such service when advise
of their appointment and location,
% order that this agency of the governmel
~ may be enlisted to assist registrants Ell
gagged in non productive occupations
II empioyments to obtain work of produ
tive character as soon as possible an
81 with the least hardship or Inconvenience
To this end local boards should furnis
70 to such directors or agents the names an
5; addresses of registrants to whom noti
n to appear has been sent; and should fu
v, nish such directors or agents with u
e, names and addresses of registrants wi
Z; may inquire for information in respe
a !; of 4 change of employment and refer q
Is, Iregistrants requesting such informatis
to the directors or agents OF the Unit,
States employment service.