Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1918-05-30
CROWiD,ER EXPLAINS
PROVISIONS OF
DRASTIC WORK ACT
Is Expected. to Relieve Neces-
sity For Direct Draft Of Man
Power For Labor.

washington, u. ", May 90.
From the War department comes the
statement below relative to the new
work or fight regulations.
The statement of the provost mar
shall generals Office follows:
provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment to
the selective service regulations
which deals with the great question
of compelling men not engaged in
useful occupation Immediately to
apply themselves to some form Of
labor, contributing to the general
good. The idler, too, will find him
self confronted with the alternative
of finding suitable employment or
entering the army.
'sThis regulation provides that aft
er July 1, any registrant VINO Is
found by locaal board to be habit
ual idler or not engaged in some
useful occupation shall be summon
ed before the board, given a chance
to explain and, in the absence of a
satisfactory explanation, to be In
Quoted into the military service OF
the nited States.
Any Board May Act.
"Any local board will be author
ICED to take action whether it has
original Jurisdiction of the registrant
or not; in other words, any man
loafing around q pool room in Chi
cago may be held to answer to a
Chicago board, even though he may
have registered in New York and liv-
ed there most of his life.
"The regulations which apply to
idle registrants will be deemed to
apply also to gambler of all descrip-
tion and employees and attendants
of bucket shops and at race tracks,
fortune tellers, clairvoyants, palmtsts
and the like, who, for the purpose OF
the regulations, shall be considered
as idlers.
"The new regulations will also af-
feet the following classes:
s"(a) Persons engaged in the
serving of food and drinks, or either.
in public places including hotels and
social clubs.
s "(b) Passenger elevator opera
tors and attendants; doormen, foot
men and other attendants of clubs,
hotels. stores, apartment houses, Of
flee buildings and bath houses.
Gel Persons, including ushers
and other. attendants, engaged and
occupied in. and in connection with
games, sports and amusements, ex-
cepting actual performers in legiti-
mate concerts, operas or theatrical
performance.
"ld) Persons employed in. domes-
tic service.
.1e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mer-
camille establishments.
''Men who are engaged as above
or who are idlers will not be per-
mitted to seek relief because Of the
fact that they have drawn q late
order number or because they have
been placed in class 2, 3 or 4, on the
grounds of dependency. The fact
that he is not usefully employed will
outweigh both Of the above condi-
tions.
Will Extend List.
s.It is expected that the list Of nom
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity Will
require so as to include persons In
other employment:
Temporary absence from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual and frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regular va
cations will not be considered an
a ahsonco In this connection.