The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-15
Community Board, Exemption
Board, Council Defense and
Peace Officers, Cooperate =
in Roundup of Loafers.
Get ESSENTIAL JOB
OR FIGHT is EDICT
Will be Offered Work; vagged
on Refusal; Or May be Placed
in Glass One; Includes
Men Worth Million.

That there shall be no idlers in
Chickasha or Grady county while
the war is on and while the nation
is in such dire need of war workers,
was the action taken yesterday even
ing at a joint melting Of the Labor
Community board, the Exemption
Board and the Grady County Coun-
Gil of Defense Today, and from
this time one, it's work or fight for
every able bodied man in Grady, the
ruling being in direct line wieh or
ders issued from Washington.
Officers this morning are rounding
up the idlers in Chickasha and Gra-
day county and are escorting them
before the Community Board at the
office of the Federal-State employ
ment office. There, the men viii be
questioned as to what they have
done, what they are now doing and
what they are best fitted to do.
With this information in hand es-
sential work will be offered the men.
No Exemptions Made.
~ the work offered is accepted
andS'the individual goes to the job at
once and ssaya busy, 4ii well ana
good. If, however, he does not take
the place offered, recommendations
will be made to the exemption board
to put him in class l. in line for
military service at once. The ex-
emption board has received inseruc-
tions as to how to proceed with such
cases. This action will be taken in
the event the man is between the
ages of Is and SO and is regardless
of what class he has been assigned
to by the exemption board In the
event the man is over SO, and he re-
fuses to take the work offered him,
he will be "vagged" through the Of
flee of the county attorney
This order, which is work or fight,
literally, applies to every able bodied
male regardless of whether he is
worth a million dollars or nickel,
according to the orders received
from Washington authorities, and
through the state officials
Non-EssentiaIs Are Next.
The stringent action now under
way, does not apply at this time to
those in non-essentiaI occupations,
but only to the idlers. However, Of
ficials are confident that the non
essential class will be included in
the next order that is received. The
authorities are advising the non-es-
sentials to shape their business in
such a manner that they can get in
to some branch of essential war
work on short notice.
AChe men rounded up under the
iNler drive, will be offered work on
farms, if such work is needed, or
they may be sent to Nitro, w. Va.
If they are skilled mechanics, car
penters, etc, they will be given op-
portunities to get into munitions
plans The authorities hint that
the drive on the ider is simply
pointing the way for the man engag-
ed in non-essential employment.
Council Supports Move.
At the joint meeting yesterday af-
ternoon, the Grady county Council
of Defense passed a resolution to
the effect that the body heartily ap-
proved of the movement and would
assist the work in every way pos
sible. working in cooperation with
the Community Board and the EX-
emption Board to achieve the end
aimed at by the Washington author
tiles. namely: that every man as
cure work that win help in the pros
ecution of the war.
Peace officers, including United
States deputy marshals. city police
men and men from the sheriff's for-s
are cooperating with the Communi
Board. the Exemption Board and
4he Council of Defense in carrying
Out the orders of the Washington
authorities i-.Az-4-ah