Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-12
Employers Asked to Aid Draft Boards
,distinctively war industries offering tho
inducement of higher wages.
| Only Par Cant In ClAaa Ono.

I, distinctively war industries offering tho
inducement of higher wages.
Only 8 Per Cent In Class One.
How relatively small. in actual CT
feet has been the effect OF the selec-
tive draft is seen In the fact that for
all the occupations represented In the
s, 700, 900 classified registrants Of Janu-
airy. 1918. the percentage OF the entire
industrial population represented by
: the class / registrants amounted to
only per cent II ran as low as 3
per cent for some occupations, and COR
respondingly higher for some other oc-
equations: but the national average
was only s per cent.
ANY notably larger depletions In
pa rticular Industries must therefore,
have been due. partly to enlistments,
and in probably greater degree to vol
untary transfers into other industries.
"These other influences are therefore
to be kept in mind by employers and
others in weighing the question wheth-
err the best solution. in the national in
terest is to ask for the deferment Of
individuals or groups Of men. Such de-
ferlnents may assist the immediate sit
uation in the particular establishment.
but they merely force the army and
the navy to seek elsewhere for the
same number Of men thus deferred.
Know War Needs.
'"The uuantitive needs OF the mill
tary forces are known and imperative,
and any given quantity Of deferments
-. No y
the depletion of some other occupation.
Thus. 1t becomes the employers duty
to consider these larger aspects Of de-
ferment in seeking that solution Of his
own problem which best COMFORTS with
the national interest
MY present object Is to urge upon
employers the duty and responsibility
Of becoming we'll advised IN all these
matters-of cquipping themselves with
full information as to the extent to
which their particular establishment
is affected by the liability Of regis
trants to military service, OF observ-
ing the extent to which other influences
Of depletion have affected it and the
degree in which other methods Of sup
ply can relieve that depletion, and Of
laying these facts and other pertinent
ones before the industrial advisers now
to be placed at each district board-to
the end that those individuals or
groups who are Indispensable and ir-
replaceable should receive deferment,
whether or not they have made claim
for it, and that the army and the navy
should not be deprived of it's proper
supply of man power by i'll considered
deferments not absolutely demanded
by the national interest.
Load on SeIective System
The cessation of enlistments will
henceforth protect industry against one
irregular and uncomfortable source of
arrangement. 1t will correspondingly
throw upon the selective service sys-
tenn the greater responsibility for an
intelligent and discriminating selection
made in the light of industrial needs.
This responsibility is shared by en-
ployers and all who represent groups
of workers. To fulfill this responsible
ity they must now prepare themselves
even more carefully than hitherto.
They will find the boards heartily ready
to cooperate with them to the utmost.
The keynote of purpose for all Of us
ought to be, and ] am sure will be- that
wise and profoundly significant phrase
in the act OF congress under which we
operate, The maintenance Of the mill
tary establishment or the effective op-
Grafton Of the military forces, or the
! maintenance Of national interest dur
ing the emergency
"CROwDER,
Provost Marshal General"