The Monroe journal., 1918-07-05
EXEMPTION BOARD WILL. BEGIN
on THE WORK Or FIGHT ORDER
New Regulations viii Affect Few in
Monroe Other Than Sales Clerks
List of Occupations Affected.

Mr.. Murray Clark, clerk 10 the To-
cal board of exemptions, states that
the board, in obedience TO the work
or night amendments 10 the selectixe
service law recently passed, would be-
gin IN a few days 70 summon regis
trahts before then Tor an investiga-
ton of the nature of the occupation
they are engaged H.. Under the new
amendments 10 the selectiye service
regulations all registgants who are
engaged in non productive occupa-
lions may have Their deferred classi-
flcatlons and order numbers with
drawn and be subject TO immediate
induction into the army after they
have been passed upon by the district
board ard president if there was no
dissenting vote in he district board
These hew regulations went into
effee, on July l. The board has the
has been granite deferred classified
ton on any ground TO appear for an
investigation as 10 the productivity
OF his occupation The regisrant
summoned shall present his excuses
for his occupation 10 the board at this
hearing either oral or written After
the local board has passed upon his
case and decided that he is engaged in
an un-productive occupation he has
the right TO appeal his case to the dis
trict board and if there this board
does not agree unanimously upon his
case TO the president.
The following occupations are re-
garded as non-proeuctiye--they are
so specified by selectiye service regu-
lations which have been received at
the local board of exemptions. Any
registrant engaging in them who
has been granted deferred classified
ton because Of dependents or other
causes may have his order number
and deferred classification withdrawn
by the board.
Persons engaged In the serving of
food and drink, Or either, in public
places including hotels and social
clubs, passenger elevator operators
and attendants. and doOr-men and
footmen, carriage openers and other
attendants in clubs, hotels, apartment
houses, office buildings and bath
houses, persons including ushers and
other attendants engaged in and con-
connected with games, sports and
|amusements, excepting actual per
formers in legitimate concerts, operas
or theatrical performers, persons en-
'ployed in domestic service, sales
Ettferks and other clerks employed in
stores and other mercantile establish
ments. Any and all registrants who
have no occupations are the ones thai;
come first under the law.
The following grounds shall be ac-
cepted by boards as reasonable ex-
cuses for temporary idleness or for
being engaged in non-essential oc-
cupation OF employment: Sickness,
reasonable vacation, lack of reasona-
Bile opportunity TO secure employment
outside those enumerated as non-pro-
ductive, temporary absences, not reg
ular vacation, unless habitual, from
the usual employment shall not be
regarded as idleness II they do not
exceed one week. When there are
compelling domestic circumstances
that would not permit change of EN-
ployment of the registrant without
disproportionate hardship on his de-
pendents or when the change from a
productive employment would neees-
state a change of residence and such
change in the judgment of the board
would place unusual hardship upon
the registrant and his family or when
such change of employment wiuld
necessitate the night employment Of
women under circumstances deemed
by the board unsuitable for women,