The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-05-30
ALL |DLERS MUST
FIGHT OR LABOR
oENERAL cRoWpER issUEs OR.
DIR COVERING VARIOUS
SPORTS AND rRADEs.
EDIcT IN FORCE JULY FIRST
Amendment to seIsetive Service Reou'
iations to Make Nation Efficient
In War Takes RssIstrants Out
Of Deferred Glass.

Iatoono TO make Nation Entcleht
In War Takes Rsolstrants Out
Of Deferred Glass.
Bulletin.
Warrington, May q. - General
Crowdsr's new ''work-or-aght" regula-
lions may require professional base
ball players either to engage in some
useful occupation or to join the army.
Baseball players, a. well as Jockeys.
professional golfers and other profess
Eonal sportsmen, General Crowder
said today, will be affected by the reg
ulations If strictly enforced. General
Crowder said he did not desire to make
specific rulings at this time and would
make rulings only when cases came to
him from local boards after July /.
Bulletin.
Washington. May 23.-Theatrical
performers have been excepted from
the new draft regulations at the d.
rsction Of Secretary Baker, who Is said
to feel that the people cannot do with
out all amusement In war time and
that other amusements could be dis
pensed with more readily.
Warrington. May 23.-Every man
ef draft age must either work or aglN
after July 1, under a drastic amend
ment to the selective service regula-
ions announced today by General
Crowder. provost marshal general.
Not only idlers. but all draft regis
trants engaged in what are held to be
nonuseful occupations are to be hailed
before local boards and given the
choice Of q new job or the army.
Gamblers. race track and bucket
shop attendants and fortune tellers
head the list. but those who will b
reached BY the new regulation also In
clude walters and bartenders. theater
ushers and attendants, passenger els-
vator operators and other attendants
Of clubs, hotels, stores, ETC.. domestics
and clerks in stores.
Deferred classification granted on &C
count Of dependents will be disregard.
Cd entirely In applying the rule. 4
man may be at the bottom Of class I.
or even In class I, but II he fails with.
In the regulation and refuses to take
useful employment hs will be given q
new number In class that will send
him into the military service forthwith.
Local boards are authorized to use die.
erstion only where they ind that en-
forced change Of employment would
result In disproportionate hardship up.
o. his dspsndents.
May ooive the Labor Problem.
Il has been known for some time that
some form Of ''work or fight" plan has
bssn submitted to President Wilson.
bot there has been no intimation that II
was % far reaching In it, scope. Both
he military authorities and depart
meat Of labor of1cials believe that II
viii 20 Q long way toward solving the
labor problem for farmers. shipbulld-
~ and munition makers and viii end,
to- the present at least, talk Of con.
seziption Of labor. The announcement
today gives notice stsnincantly that the
list Of nonuseful occupations will b ex.
tended from time TO time - necessity
requires.
TIE statement Of the provost mar.
shall generals once u a. follows:
Provost Aarshal General Crowdss
today announced an amendment to the
sslsctivs service regulations which
deals With the great question Of com.
polling men not engaged In . useful
occupation Immediately to apply them.
selves to some form Of labor. contrib.
utins to the general good. The idler
too. will ind himself confronted with
the alternative Of finding suitable en-
ployment or entering the army.
''This regulation provides that ate.
July l. any registrant who 10 found b.
Q local board to be q habitusi idler Of
not engaged In some useful occupation
shall be summoned before the board
given . chance to explain aud. In the
absence Of q satisfactory explanation
TO be indicted into the military service
Of the United States.
ANY local board will be authorized
to take action. whether It has an orig
inal Jurisdiction Of the registrant Of
not; in other words, any man loafing
around Q poolroom In Chicago may b.
held to answer to Chicago board even
though be may have registered IN
New York and lived there most Of biz
hfs.
THE regulations which apply to Idle
rsSistrapts will b deemed 10 apply
also to gamblers Of oil description and
employees. and attendants Of bucket
shops and race tracks. fortune tellers
eiairvoyants. palmists and the like
Who for the purpose Of the regulationa
shall b considered a. idierx.
New Rule 10 Sweeping.
The new regulation Will also Affect
The following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged In the servinl
e food and drink. or either. In public
places, inciudins hotsls and socia
clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator OPERATOR
aad attendants, doormsa. footmsn ant
etAss attendants Of clubs. hotels
seoess. apartment houses, once build
iaS1 and lighthouses.
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