The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-10-25
NON.WAR WORKERS
MUST CHANGE JOBS
$3.50 Men Is M0ntana's Share and
Most of These Will Be Sent
Out of the State.

Great Falls.-Montana's quota in
the first draft of men from non-essen-
tial to essential war work is $3.50 and
these men will begin to move from
their present occupations to jobs which
will speed up the nations war work
Immediately. Just how many men
will be taken out of the state is prob
lematical in this first draft, but
State Director Scott Leavitt of the
United States employment service,
stated that he believed the major por-
ton would find their way beyond the
borders of Montana, and would re-
main away throughout the a
The appointment of the quotas for
the various counties of the state has
been approved by the state advisories
board of the United States employ.
ment service. 1t was based on popu-
lation of the different counties and
follows:
Beaverhead, rs; Big Horn, al;
Blaine, 81; Broadwater, 40; Carbon,
1876; Carter, so; Cascade, 457; Cho-
teau, 1853; Custer, 1863; Dawson, 1893;
Deer Lodge, 1865; Fallon, 50; Fergus,
361; Flathead, 209; Gallatin, III;
Granite, 3s; Hill, 101; Jefferson, 81;
Lewis, and Clark, 1871; Lincoln, SO;
Madison, 70; Meagher, SO; Mineral,
20; Missoula, 239; Musselshell, 1855
Park, Ill; Phillips, 1903; Powell, So;
Prairie, As; Ravalli, 120; Richland,
1928; Rosebud, 1870; Sanders, So; Sher-
idan, 22S; Silver Bow, $50; Saltwater,
So; Sweet Grass, AT; Teton, 141;
Toole, 81; Valley, 1T; Wheatland, 40;
Wibaux, AZ; Yellowstone, 273.
At the same time the state advis-
cries board approved the list of non
essential occupations prepared by AS
sistant State Director R. E. Cunning
ham from which these men are to be
drawn, some of them Immediately.
The list contains a large number of
occupations the eliminations of which
will materially cripple commercial,
mercantile and industrial business, as
now conducted, and further provides
for the replacing of many Of these
men who will be drawn into produc-
tive professions with women. Occu-
p~ations declared to be non-essential
and from which the 5000 workers will
be drawn as o as possible follows:
The men to be released by estab-
lishments determined by the board to
be non-essential are the laborers, por-
tiers, ushers, janitors and other work.
ers. This board has determined the
following industries and occupations
to be engaged in non-essential war
work and the employees in industries
or occupations whether skilled or un-
skilled will be expected to c m
ployment in essential war work as
above outlined.
Automobile industry, so far as APP
plicable to the selling, maintenance
and repair of pleasure cars and their
accessories; drivers of pleasure cars
cleaning and delivery of same; taxi
cab drivers; sightseeing cars; team
ing, other than delivery of essential
products and as outlined by the war
industries board; bath and barber shop
ATTENDANTS; book agents and house to
house canvassers; bowling alleys, bill
lard and pool rooms; bottlers and bot
tie supplies; cabaret and cafe enter
tanners; candy manufacturers; cigars
and tobacco; cleaners and dyers;
clubs; confectioners, and delicatessen
establishments; builders and contrac-
tors not engaged in the erection of
structures for war work; dancing &C
ademies; clerks in mercantile stores;
florists; fruit stands; hotel, cafe and
restaurant walters; insurance solici-
tors; junk dealers; liquor industry in
it's entirety; livery and sales stables;
messengers other than those regularly
employed by telegraph or telephone
companies; pawn brokers; peanut ven
ders and establishments; private en-
ployment agencies; shoe shining par
lors; window cleaners; soft drink ant
soda fountain supplies.
The following is the general polio!
under which the board is operating
"For the purpose of %centralizing wa
labor recruiting program, war work
means:
81. The manufacture of products
or the erection of structures directl!
or Indirectly supplied to some depart
ment of the government for use il
connection with the a Indirect!
supplied goods includes goods deliv
cred under sub-contracts to govern
ment contractors.
"2. Coal mining is wholly wa
work.
"3. Railroads and farms are en-
gagged in war work to the extent tina
under this program they are protect
ed from all recruiting by other indus
tries.
"The making of products which ma!
ultimately be used for war purposes
but which are not to be delivered eth
er directly or indirectly to the govern
ment or to some contractor who use: