Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-09-28
CARE ON DEFERRED
CLASSIFICATION
District Board Asks Employers
to be Guided Only by Ac
tual Necessity.

The District Exemption Board has
issued the following To employers, which
explains itself:
The attention of the District Board
Of Delaware has been called To the follow
ing Many employers OF labor IN more
or less necessary Industries are planning
gtu file extensive industrial claims for
their employees. based partly on their
Interpretation of General Crowdcr re-
cent statement to employers throughout
the United States and partly because
they have u fear OF tremendous dram
upon their working forces The District
Board therefore, wishes Ia caution
against this possible action on the part
of employers and tn urge proper study
and careful discrimination IN each m
dividual case before deciding upon tllIng
of an industrial or commercial flaim
The new draft will require CNtranr-
binary work upon all the draft boards
in the classification of the "cw rcglStra-
ton 10 facilitate this work 50 far ~
the District Board Of Delaware IL con
cerncd your attention IS called 10 III"
following requests affecting ndust ua'
occupations.
Ii must bc first borne IN mind hy ail
those planning to make industrial and
commercial claims, that the admlnlstra-
tiun must have large number at men
physically ht for active service from the
now draft. Without this adequate supply
"a the army our national program tor
concluding the war may not hc acooml-
liShcd
While the number needed for active
service IN the army IN the aggregate -
large. It's average dram on Il percentage
basis from those ni - to i6 years will
IT, relatively small bu the prInclplc
nf average. the normal industrial or
comtnercral enterprise would probably
not have to suffer loss of more than
10 10 ~ per cent ut its employees phys
really ~ for active service II II mado
no occupatloual clalms whatever Tins
/, due ia other grounds for drferrng
rcgi-trautS. such as dependency. ahcnagc
physlca unhtness. vtc
The District Rnard of Delaware there
fore asks all those concerned with m
du.tral and commercial work who may
hr contemplating claiming on such
grounds. to exercise the utmost DIS
crInlnatlon IN not claiming where other
procedures may hc possible - allow the
rrnpcr continuance OF thc enterprise
liver, individual case should be- studied
partrIlarI1 by employers to determine.
lmpolt4ut cmplnNc IN the position ol
i dcpartucnt head or a kcv-mau
" hcfhcr n woman cannot hc framed
la IL do thc work performed ~ The
particular 1rgIetraut undcr consideration
:. Nhcttcr some other Irrson IN Tie
establishments Engaged IN less essential
~ uon-c~scntai work so tar ~ the
rational emergency IS conccrncdA nught
take on Tie duties ct sueh rrglstnnt
In mauv eases thoushtt1iI consideration
IA these points vli finally corvnc, a
manager that he can handle hrs ptolicm
without MAX hug claims Tor certain ot
his cmpevcs Who ar otherwise available
for amy service bY rcasou of no dc
rcndcncv or rhvsca unhtress
Nueh spcclal consideration wll save
= great deal of work upon tho draft
boards ~ tins critical pon"d Wmlo ~
the same tlmc assuring the government
1T additional active service men The