Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-12

instructions for Classifying he9istranss
 Who Are Idlers-Quinebaug Lodge :.
 Celebrates Golden Anniversary-Boy and Girl to Be Committed to State
 Reform Schools = Mechaniesvlle | Strike May Be Adjusted.
 Tuesday the local exemption board received it's official instructions rela- i tive to classifying registrants who are | idIers or engaged in certain non-pro- ductive occupations and employments. | These regulations become effective 1 July 1, and one section says:
 Whenever after July 1, 1918, any registrant in Class I, II. III or ", wherever he may be located, Is report ed or observed by any local board, whether it be his local board of origin or local board having jurisdiction over the territorial area in which he is found, whether having original juris- diction over him or not, to be an idler, or to be engaged in any occupation or employment defined and described in these regulations or any amendments thereof as a non productive occupation or employment, such local board shall by notice, to him, set a day and hour when the registrant shall appear and present such evidence, by affidavit, or otherwise, bearing upon the reasons for his status, as he may care to sub init. The day so set shall be not less than three nor more than seven days after the date of such notice, unless the local board on account of distance or other good and sufficient cause ex- tend the time.
 Immediately after the decision of the local board in each case the entire records in the case of the registrant are to be sent to the district board for review, as on appeal.
 Tn cases where the circumstances
 warrant, the local board is empowered | toswithdraw any deferred classification that registrant may have received place him in Class I, assign him an | order number and induct him into 1 military service on the next call for men.
 If registrant is idle, he, of course, is not occupied or employed at all, and his status of idleness furnishes ground for withdrawal of any deferred classi- Hcation he may possess, or a late order l number; and the regulations applicable to idle regiStrantS also shall be deemed applicable to gamblers of all descrip- ] tons and employees of race tracks and bucket. shops and 'to fortune tellers. clairvoyants, palmists, and the like, T6SuldllOnS shall be considered idlers.
 The regulations further state that the employment or engagement of any able bodied registrant of military age
 in any of the following occupations or employments is not sufficiently effect IlVe, Tn the present emergency, to jus tlfy the postponement of his call into l military service, notwithstanding he 1 may nave later order number and notwithstanding that he may have | been placed in Class II, III or W on the ground of dependency; and all {! reglstrants engaged as follows are to | be considered by local and district
 boards as engaged in non productive
 occupations or employments:
 la9 Persons engaged in the serving
 Of food and drink, or either, in public
 places, including hotels and social
 clubs s (b) Passenger elevator operators
 and attendants, doormen. footmen, car l rage openers, attendants at clubs. ho
 tels, stores, apartment houses. office buildings and bathhouses.
 l (cl Persons, including ushers and attendants, engaged and occupied in and Ill connection with games, sports and amusements, excepting actual per
 formers in legitimate concerts. opera
 
 (d) Persons employed in domestic service. i (e) Sales clerks and other clerks
 employed in stores and other mercan-
 tile establishments. Local boards are instructed that they
 must consider cases with sympathy
 and common sense. The followinf grounds also are to be accepted by ,tht local board as reasonable excuse fo
 temporary 1dleness or for being en gagged in non-p productive employment
 Sickness reasonable vacation, ldck o |; 1 reasonable opportunity for employmen in any occupation. outside of those tha } are set forth in foregoing quotation
 rom the instructions or others no herewith printed; lack of reasonabl :. opportunity for employment in any .oc l equation. outside of those herewit mentioned; temporary absence iron ], regular employment, not to exceed on : week, unless such temporary absence : are habitual and frequent, shall not b : considered idleness Where there are compelling domesti Q circumstances that would not perm change of employment by the regis trant without disproportionate hard
 ship on his dependents; or where
 change from productive occupa a ton to productive occupation woul :, neeessitate removal of the registrar i, from his place of residence. and sue Il removal would, in the judgment of th d board, cause unusual hardship to tf = regiStrant and his family