Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-24
LoaferS as Well as All Draft
Registrants Engaged in Non
Useful Occupations Must
Fish or Cut Bait.
DRASTIC ORDER GOES
INTO EFFECT JULY |
Gamblers, Race Track and
Bucket Shop Attendants,
Head the LIST Walters, Bar
Tenders and Others Included
tsy MOANING Lourn.L s,se,AL LEASED UIrsI


Washington, May 23.-Every nan
Of draft age must work or fight after
July l. under drastic amendment to
the selective service regulations an
nounced roday by Provost Marshal
General Crowder.
Not only idlers, but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held 10
be non-useful occupations, are TO De
haied before the local boards and CIV
en- the choice of a new job or the
army.
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune teliers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulation also in
clude walters and bartenders. theater
ushers and attendants, passenger eie-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs, hotels, stores, etc.-domestics
and clerks in stores,
Deferred classification granted on ac-
count of dependents will be disregard
ed entirely in applying the rule. A
man may be at the bottom of class
one or even in class four, but if he
falls within the regulation and refuses
to take useful employment, he will be
given a new number in class / that
will send him into the military service
forthwith. Local boards are author
lied to use discretion only where they
find that enforced change of employ
ment would result in disproportionate
hardship upon his dependents.
Solve Labor Problem.
1t has been known for some time
that some form of work or fight"
plan had been submitted to Presi-
dent Wilson, but there had been no
intimation that ii was so far-reaching
in scope. Both the military authorities
and department of labor officials be-
lieve that ii will go a long way toward
solving the labor problem for farmers,
shipbuilding and munition makers,
and will end for the present at least
talk Of conscripion of labor. The an
nouncement today gives notice signifi-
cantly that the list of non-useful oc-
cupations will be extended from time
to time as necessity requires.
The statement of the provost mar
shal generals office follows
Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to the
selective service regulations which
deals with the great question of COM
pelling men not engaged in a useful
occupation Immediately to apply them
selves to some form of labor contrib
uting to the general good. The idler,
too, will find himself confronted with
the alternative of finding suitable en-
ployment or entering the army.
The regulation provides that after
July !, any regstrani who is found
by n local board to be habitual idler
or not engaged in some useful occu-
patton, shall be summoned before the
board, given a chance to explain and,
in the absence of satisfactory eX-
planation, to be inducted into the mill
tary service of the United States.
Any local board will be authorized
to take action whether it has original
jurisdiction of the regstrant or not
in other words, any man loafing
around pool room in Chicago may tie
held to answer to Chicago board,
even though he may have registered in
New York and lived there most of his
life.
The regulations which apply %
idle registrants will be deemed to ap-
ply also to gamblers of all description
and employees and attendants Of buck
ct shops and race tracks, fortune tell
ers, clairyoyants, palmists and the
like, who for the purpose of the reg
ulations shall be considered as oilers.
Following Glasses Affected.
THE new regulation will also af.
feet the following classes:
"(A) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing of food and drink. or either, in
public places including hotels and So
cial clubs.
"(B) Passenger elevator operators
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