The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-05-24
'ALL LOAFERS
MUST co TO
WORK on WAR
Drastic Amendment to SeIectiye
Service Regulations is
Announced.
GAMBLERS AND
IDLERRS SAME
Walters, Bar Tenders, Bucket
Shop Attendants and For
tune Tellsr Head List

man OF draft age must work or fight
after July L under a drastic amend
ment to the seIective service regula-
tions announced today by Provost
Marshal General Crowder
Not only idIers, but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held to be
non-useful occupations are to be
haied before local boards and given
the choice of new job or the army
Gamblers, race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list, but those who will be
reached by the new regulations also
include walters, bar tenders, theatre
ushers and attendants, passenger ele-
vator operators and other attendants
of clubs. hotels. stores, etc, domestic
and clerks in stores.
Deferred classification granted on
account of dependents will be dis
regarded entirely in applying the rule.
A man may be at the bottom of class
1 or even In class 4, but IL he falls
within the regulations and refuses to
take useful employment he will be
given new number in class L that
will send him into the military SER
vice forthwith. Local boards are au-
thorized to use discretion only where
they find that enforced change of en-
ployment would result in dispropor-
tionate hardship upon his dependents.
1t has been known for some time
that some form of work or fight"
plan has been submitted to President
Wilson, but there had been no intima-
ton that 1t was so far reaching in
scope Both military authorities and
department of labor officials believe
that 1t will go a long way toward solv-
ing the labor problem for farmers,
shipbuilders and munitions makers.
and will end for the present at least,
talk of conscription of labor.
The announcement today gives no.
tice significantly that the list of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity re-
quires.
The statement of the Provost Gen.
erals 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
themselves to some form of labor,
to the general good. The
idler, too, will find himself confront
ed with the alternative OF finding
suitable employment or entering the
army
This regulation provides that after
July 1, the registrant who is found
by q local board to be a habitual idler,
patton shall be summoned before the
board. given a chance to explain and.
in the absence of satisfactory ex-
PLANTATION, TO be inducted into the mil
itary service of the United States.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action, whether IL has original
Jurisdiction Of the regfstrant or not;
in other words, any man loafing
around a pool room in Chicago may
be 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 to
idle registrants will be deemed to ap-
ply also to gamblers OF all descrip-
tions and employees and attendants
OF bucket shops and race tracks, for
tune tellers, clairvoyants. palmists.4
and the like, who for the purposes of
the regulations will be considered as
idlers
The new regulation will also affect
the following classes:
"(a) Person engaged in the serving
Of food and drink, or either. in public
places. including hotels and social
clubs.
(b) Passenger elevator operators
and attendants. door men, foot men
and other attendants of clubs. hotels.
stores. apartment houses. office build
ngs and bath houses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
,ther attendants. engaged and occu-
pied in, and in connection with games.
sports. and amusements.. excepting ac-
.ual performers in legitimate concerts,
operas or theatrical performances.
"(d) Persons employed in domestic |
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks |
employed in stores and other mercan- |
lie establishments.
Men who are engaged as above or |
Who are. idlers will not be permitted |
o seek relief because of the fact that |
hey have drawn late order number |