Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-06-29
WORK OR FIGHT
ORDER IN EFFECT
Details of Ruling Which
Governs Work that May
be Done by Men Who are
in Registered Glasses.

received the following ruling govern.
ing the work or fight order thai
goes into effect on the first of July
in the present emergency 1t is not
possible to extend the protection OF
deferred classification to those regis
trants engaged in certain occupations
or employments which are nonpro-
ductive
There is a great demand for labor
in all productive occupations and EN-
ployments and especially in agricul-
ture and other necessary industries
Therefore, registrants who have been
given deferred classification and who
can engage in some productive occu-
patton or employment without sub
stantial financial loss or hardship
to themselves or others should be will
ling to seek some productive occupa-
tion or employment or enter the
military service rather than remain
in an occupation or employment in
which they are rendering no effective
assistance to the Nation.
If registrant is idle, he, of course,
is not occupied or employed at all,
and his status of idleness furnishes
ground for the withdrawal of his de-
forrnd classification ~ Iota ordo,
number and the regulations appli-
cable to idle registrants shall be
deemed applicable also to gamblers
of all descriptions and employees of
race tracks and bucket shops, and to
fortune .tellers, clairvoyants, palm
lists. and the like, who, for the pur-
pose of these Regulations, shall be
considered as idlers
The employment or engagement of
any able-bodied registrant of military
age in any of the following occupa-
tions or employments is not suffi-
GENTLY effective, in the present emer-
gency, to justify the postponement of
his call into military service, not
withstanding he may have a late
number and Notwithstanding he may
have been placed in Glass II, III, or
" on the ground of dependency; and
Ill registrants engaged as follows are
o be considered by Local and Dis
rict Boards as engaged in nonpro-
iuctive occupations or employments:
(a) Persons engaged in the serving
If food and drink, or either, in public
,laces. including hotels and social
lubs.
% Paragraph (a) of section /
121K does not include managers,
clerks, cooks, or other employees |
unless they are engaged in the .
serving of food and drink, or
either.
tb) Passenger-elevators and at
and door men, footmen,
arriage openers and other attend
nts in clubs, hotels. stores, apart
nent houses, office buildings, and
(2) The words their attendants"
in paragraph (b) of section 121
x include bell boys, and also in
clude porters unless such porters
are engaged in heavy work.
(c) Persons, including ushers and
ther attendants, engaged and oc-
upied in and in connection with
ames, sports, and amusements, ex-
epting actual performers in legiti-
rate concerts, operas, or theatrical
CD Paragraph (c) of section 121
K includes, in addition to ushers
and other attendants, all per
sons engaged and occupied in {
games, sports and amusements,
except actual performers In
legitimate concerts, operas, or
theatrical performances
(d) Persons employed in domestic
,ryice;
(4) Paragraph Cd of section 121
X does not include public or
private chauffeurs, unless they
are also engaged in other occu-
pations or employments defined
By these regulations as non-pro-
ductive.
y Sales clerks and other clerks en-
Dyed In stores and other mercantile =
Adjustments.
(5) Paragraph (e) of section 121
X does not include store execu-
tiyes. managers, superlntend- n
ents, nor the heads of such de-
partments as accounting, fnan Y
cial, advertising, credit, pur- 7
chasing, delivery, receiving, I
shipping and other departments; a
does not include registered phar-
macists employed in wholesale
and retail drug stores or estab- a