Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-12
British Decentralization Plans

go other men in the order of i'm
portance of their civil jobs: 90 the
skeleton units. It is probable that the
number of men in the first two classes,
lie, demoblizers aud pivotal men, will
be very few.
Where possible, preference is to be
given to married men over single men
and to long service men over short
service men.
In the making up of a demobiliza-
ton draft of. say, 100 men after the
demobilizers, the pivotal men and the
men liable to service in the new Regu-
lar Army have gone home, each COM
handing officer is to give preference
to the men with release slips. lie, men
for whom definite jobs are known to
be waiting. IT, say, the commanding
officer had 100 slip men from which
to choose for his disqualification draft
OF 100 men, he would give preference
to men whose work stood highe~t in
the list Of industrial priority and to
married men. In the same way. If he
had only ninety slip men, he would
make up the other ten from non-slip
men according to the priority of their
jobs.
These slips, Immediately upon being
signed will be sent by the Army au-
thorities to the claims and record
Office of the ministry of labor, where
the :-2an's assertion that his employer
be verified and if found to be correct
the tcar-on slip at the bottom Of mis-
form Will be sent to his commanding
otlicer, the man thereby becoming a
slip man. The same thing will happen
where job has been found for a
man.
Already the Industries of the. coun-
try have been divided off into priority
lists, the Industries at the head of the
list being those which it is necessary
for the welfare Of the nation to be
1c-established first. These priorities
Will vary, however. with the season of
the year and the state of raw mate
rails. shipping, etc
AS to the actual process of de-
mobilization. if the soldier lives, for
instance in Bradford, he will be COL
lected at concentration camp along
with all other men for Bradford. From
that camp there will be mapped u
particular route by sea, read or rail,
by which Bradford men will proceed
TO the dispersal station at Bradford
At the dispersal station arms and
equipment will be handed in and the
soldier will be handed his protection
certificate. a railway warrant to his
nome, cash payment, an out-of-work
donatl on policy and a ration book. He
viii then be at liberty to go home.
However, he viii not yet be through
with the Army. He win be on twenty
eight days furlough, during which
time he will continue to receive his
pay and ration allowance and his de-
pendcnts Will continue to receive their
separation allowance. In the mean
time he viii be supposed to find him
self job, if he has not already a
job and to be purchasing a suit Of
CIVILIAN clothes for which he has re
eeived an allowance at his dispersal
station. He will be permitted to go
about in uniform. but at the expira
ton of his twenty eight days he will
be required to clothe himself in CT
william clothes and to return his Army
overcoat to the authorities mt his dis
persal station. The rest of his uni =
form, including his shoes and his un-
derc'o,hing, will be his private prop
orty
tCurvrisht, 1919 HF