The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-11


nation as 1t reaches nineteen years.
Cicueral Crowder today reiterated
I the necessity for making claims for
deferred classification. The registrant
! may make such a claim. his employer
or business associate, OF the local draft
board may see the necessity or the
advisory board may discover the
necessity in going over the question
naire and make the claim for him,
hut General Crowder points out that
/ it is impossible for the local boards
TO burden themselves with the duty
/ Of searching AL he Guestionnaires en
/ this point
Employers Must Cooperate
The provost marshal general maxi es
an appeal To all employers to search
| their forces and see just what men
are essential They should equip
/ themselves with fun information as
! to What extent their employees are
affected by the liability of registrants
4 to military service: the extent to
| which other Influences of depletion
| have affected Ut lSuch as volunteer
! ing and Iau9fer Of Labor TO war or
other more highly paid industries) .
( the degree in which other methods of
supply can relieve the depletion such
/ @s the substitution of Womenl. and
/ they should lay these facts before the
/ advisory boards, So that those groups
or individuals who are tndtspensa BILE
shall receive deferred classification.
/ The employer makes affidavit sup
. porting the CLAIM for occupational de-
| ferred classification in any case, but
General CroWdcr urges him to initiate
/ the claim, should the registrant.
! through mistaken chiYalry,' fail to
do SO.
The employer" he continues. in
| this situation. represents the nation,
! and in the statutory phrase. the main
| tcnance of the military establishment,
or OF the national interest during the
emergency requires that some we'll
! advised third person should look after
| the national interest. which the regis
trant himself may not have sufficiently
considered. This third person is the
employer who, better than any one
! else. knows how necessary the regis
i trant is to his industry
| The final decision In the case,
| which involves first the decision If the
Industry Of employment is itself neces-
/ sary. il UP to the district boards"
/ No Blanket Exemption.
1 Pursuant To this request. the rail-
road administration and the shipping
| board are making survey Of their
I FoFCGS- Regional directors OF The rail-
ways have been asked by the director
| general to determine the necessity of
all ranks of employees and individual
/ employees in their territory and they
viii see that applications for deferred
| classification are initiated for those
! so regarded. 1t is probable that all
| engineers will be. so regarded and
Killed mechanics in the shops and
round houses, but in many cases other
! trainmen and yardmen viii not be so
! regarded and few clerks will be so
hold except those possessing special
technical knowledge. such as authori-
Ties on classifcations.
All the shipping boards sailors are
automatically in class FIVE, which is
practically an exemption. but the
blanket exemption to shpyard work
erS of The FIRST draft is withdrawn,
and the shipping board will determine
the necessity" Of men working in
en- FfaFat ion Yards III
/ initiate claims for deferred classified
ton for them
In private shipyards. as in private
businesses. II will nc necessary for
the employers to act to hold their
necessary men The United states
chamber of commerce has sent a
warning to all its members along these
lines. and urging that time for regis
tration be allowed all employees
The United States employment ser
vice announced today that it was
rapidly completing its nominations for
the district advisory boards through
sua the countl&