The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1918-07-01

order 10 give every one a chance TO
get employment
All violators of the State law. which
provides that all able-bodied men be-
tween eighteen and fifty years must
either work or join the army, will be
rounded up Immediately. The first
crusade was begun shortly after last
midnight when Assistant District At
torney James T. Smith and police de-
tectives visited Chinatown and other
lower Manhattan sections. AS "A re-
suit about 80 men and 10 women were
summoned TO appear before District
Attorney Swami to-day and explain in
what work they are engaged. while
the women do not come under the
anti-loafing law they were picked up
TO be used as witnesses against some
OF the men under suspicion.
But two were found among all the
men examined who did not have reg
istration cards and who had not filed
their questionnaires. These were
turned over to the Federal authori-
ties
No mercy will be shown by either
the police or the District Attorney,
who are working together, to men
who are habitual loafers. They Will
be rounded up wherever found and
prosecuted. The men, however, out
OF employment as result of the
Crowder order IA a different matter.
None ef them will be arrested for at
least seven days and perhaps longer,
II they can show they have tried TO
lind work but were unable to do so.
The order gives them a week from
July l In which to get other employ
ment-work that Is classed as es-
sential to the winning OF the war.
I'VE are not going to make it any
harder on these men than Is abso-
lutely necessary" said District At
torney Swami. "Of course, we ex-
pect every man affected by the or
der To do his best TO get other work
as soon as possible, and We realize
that some of them will have more
difficulty than others and will act
accordingly"
Attorney that this did not mean
there would be any lack OF effort
in the enforcement OF the order. II
will be enforced To the letter, he de-
clared, but in a reasonable and SEN
sible manner.
In this connection there are two
classes Of men in particular tina. will
receive attention from the District
Attorneys otiice-the rich idlers and
the men of draft age who have sud
denly become managers OF various
and sundry departments in stores.
The lounge and tango lizard and
the man with money but n grudge
against work have four things open
to them, according to the police. They
must either work, fight, die or leave
| New York.
The increase in the number OF men
L u hp hava oVar-niUhf hayclnna1 qtrilx
ing executive ability is an evasion OF
the Crowder order that will be in
vestigated. Information has reached
| District Attorney Swami that in
| many stores hundreds of clerks of
draft aVo have been given a title as
| manager OF some minor department
SINCE the Provost Marshal General
ruled that men at the heads OF de-
partments would not be included in
| the order.
| Among those arrested last night was
| Lincoln II. Loper, thirty-seven years
old, President OF the Independent
Electric Lighting Corporation, No
1857 Broadway, who lives at No. 200
West 54th Street. Loper. with an
other man, was in a restaurant at
57th Street and Broadway when tho
crusading party entered. He was un-
able to show his State regist ration
card and k)mil Klinge, a clerk in the
Dist trirt Attorneys Office, ordered HIN
taken to the West Side Police Station
Loper protested, and as result q
charge OF disonderly conduct wa!
made against him. This morning ht
was fined So.
Nathan Bayarer. aged eighteen, o.
No. IS Hinsdale Street, was the frs
man arrested in Brooklyn under th'
anti-loafing law. His father, Max
complained to the police that his soI
would not work. Nathan was held IL
$500 bail for special sessions by Mag
listrate Estabrook. He said the raiI
prevented him from starting on a new
job to-day.