Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1918-05-24
THE NEW DRAFT LAW
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stores, apartment houses, Office build
ings and lighthouses.
"(d Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu-
pied in and in connection with games,
sports and amusements, excepting
actual performers in legitimate con-
certs, operas of theatrical perform
ances.
"(D Persons employed in domes-
tic service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercan-
tile establishments.
List of Nohuscful Jobs Growing.
"Men who are engaged as above
or who are idlers will not be permit
ted to seek relief because of the fact
that they have drawn late order
number or because they have been
placed in class 2, 3 or 4 or the
grounds of dependency The fact that
he is not usefully employed will out
weigh both of the above conditions.
tons.
at is expected that the list Of non
useful occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will
require so as to include persons in
other employments.
Temporary absence from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual and frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regular vaca-
tions will not be considered as abb
sences in this connection.
"The regulation throws further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed by providing that where
there are compelling domestic cir
cumstances that would not permit
change of employment by the regis
trant without disproportionate hard
ship on his dependents, or where a
change from nonuseful to useful en-
ployment or occupation would neces-
state a removal of the registrant or
his family, local boards may give
consideration to the circumstances.
The regulation further provides that
where such a change of employment
would compel the night employment
of women under circumstances which
a board might deem unsuitable for
such employment of women, the
board may take such circumstances
into consideration in making its de-
cision."
CrOwder Explains.
Explaining the new regulations and
the necessity for it, General Crowde'
said:
"The war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
manpower as to prevent the enor-
nous industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
There is a popular demand for
organization of manpower, but no
direct draft could be imposed at
present.
"Steps to prohibit idles ess and non
effective occupation will he welcomed
by our people.
ave shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effective
employment. Every man, in the draft
age at least, must wol. or fight.
"This is not alone war Of military
maneuver. It is a deadly contest of
industries and mechanics Germany
must not be thought of as merely
possessing an army; we must think
Of her as being an army-an army in
which every factory anc loom in the
complete machine running night and
day at terrific speed. We must make
of ourselves the same sort Of eff
fective machine
Everybody to Aid.
at is enough to ask what would
happen if every man in the nation
turned his hand to effective work.
| We must make ourselves effective.
We must organize for the future. We
must make vast Withdrawals for the
army and Immediately close up the
ranks of industry behind the gap
with an accelerating production Of
every useful thing in necessary meas-
ure. How is this to be done?
"The answer is plain. The first
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