The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-08
Will Lose Deferred Classifi-
cation and Order
Numbers
NEW INSTRUCTIONS
HAVE BEEN ISSUED
List Of Occupations Which Govern
ment Considers n-Productive-
istrants in Those Occupations to Be
Included in First Call.


. Persons having to do with carrying
out the selective service regulations
have just received details Of the
changes in~classifcation of registrants.
Hereafter it is the duty of all per-
sons connected with the administration
of the selective service law and reg
ulations, and of all citizens, to report TO
the nearest local board all facts which
shall come to their knowledge concern
ing registrants who are idle or who are
| engaged in any occupation or employ
ment designated in the regulations as
non-productive.
Whenever after July l of this year
any registrant in classes /, 2, 3 or is
reported to any local board, whether it
be the local board in his place of reg
| istration or elsewhere, as an idler or
engaged in non-produetive employment,
| the board shall notify him and set
time for a hearing, when he may pre-
sent such evidence as he sees fit to the
reasons for his status.
/ If it is found that without reason
able excuse the registrant is an idler
or not engaged-in a productive oecu-
patton his deferred classification, if
any, shall be withdrawn, together with
his order number, and he shall be liable
to be inducted Immediately into mill
tary service, subject to review by the
district board.
If the final decision is that the reg
istrant's deferred classification and or
ider number be withdrawn he shall be
inducted into military service forthwith
if the local board has an open call for
men of his qualifications, and if not
he shall be placed in class i and be
given such an order number as will in
, sure his induction into military service
on the next call for men of his qualifica-
, tions made on the local board.
> The new regulations say: "There is
. a great demand for labor in all produc-
tive occupations and employments, and
, especially in agriculture and other
necessary industries. Therefore, regis
trahts who have been given deferred
classification and who can engage in
: some productive occupation or employ
ment without substantial financial loss
or hardship TO themselves or others
: should be willing to seek some produc-
tive occupation or employment or en-
: ter the military service rather than re-
main in an occupation or employment
: in which they are rendering no effective
assistance to the nation.
All registrants engaged as follows are
t Ito be considered by local and district
: boards as engaged in non-productive oe
:, cupations or employments:
Il [a) Persons engaged in serving OF
$ food or drink, or either, in public places
:, including hotels and social clubs;
(b) Passenger-elevator operators and
attendants; and door men, foOtmen, car
: riage openers and other attendants il
e clubs, hotels, stores, apartment houses
h Office buildings and lighthouses;
(cJ Persons, including ushers and
4, other attendants, engaged and occu
e pied in and in connection with games
sports, and amusements, exceptin,
actual performers in legitimate con
certs, operas, or theatrical perform
ances;
yl (d) Persons employed in domesti,
l service;
(e) Sales clerks and other clerks EN-
ployed in stores and other mercantil
i establishments.