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NEW "FIGHT OR WORK" RULE
WILL MARSHAL MAX POWER.
All of Draft Age Must Do Real
Work or Fight.?Help
Win the War.
, Washington, May 23.?Two important
steps were taken today toward
perfecting the task of putting
the nation on a war basis.
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Crowder had promulgated a drastic
amendment to the selective service
regulations requiring every man of
draft age to work or fight Secretary
Baker appeared before the house
military committee and asked that
I President Wilson be authorized to'
call to the colors all men of draft
age who can be equipped and trained.
The committee promptly and
unanimously voted the authority
into the army appropriation
bill. Under existing law power is
given to draft 1,000,000 fighting
men in addition to special units.
This limit soon will be reached, with
men constantly going into camp to
replace those sailing for France as
fast as ships can be provided to take
them. With the law changed as the
president desires, the man power of
the country will be drawn upon for
whatever force may be necessary to
win the war.
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Far-reaching.
Gen. Crowder's new regulation is
far-reaching in scope and touches
. " not only habitual idlers, but also requires
that draft registrants now in
occupations held to be non-useful
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in the army. Clerks in stores, waiters,
bartenders, employes at places of
amusement, passenger elevator men
and other employes around hotels,
clubs and business buildings, as well
as gamblers, fortune tellers and race
track and bucket shop attendants all
fall among those classed as nonr
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usefully engaged. Enforcement of
the rule is expected to add some men
to the army and to do a more important
service in improving the labor
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Complete Army Bill.
The house military committee's action
after hearing Secretary Baker
completed the army bill, with provision
for the pay of 3,000,000 men and
with ordnance appropriations on the
basis of an army of 4,000,000. The
measure will be laid before the house,
carrying a total of $9,569,129,000 of
actual appropriations and authorization
for contracts amounting to $2,464,416,000
more.
Mr. Baker told the committee in
executive session the president's reasons
for asking that no limit be placed
upon the number of draft men
to be called. Members said later it
was estimated that an army of 5,000,000
could be raised without
% changing the draft ages.
Crowder's Statement.
Every man of draft age must work
or fight after July 1, under a drastic
amendment to the selective service
regulations, announced today by Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder. The
statement of the provost marshal
general's office follows:
"Provost Marshal General Crowder
today announced an amendment
to the selective service regulations j
which deals with the great question
of compelling men not engaged in a
useful occupation immediately to apply
themselves to some form of la-:
hor, contributing to the general good.
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A lie luitri, iuu, win iiiiu liiiiiecu vuufronted
with the alternative of finding
suitable employment or entering
the army.
"This regulation provides that after
July 1, any registrant who is
found by a local board to be a habitual
idler, or not engaged in some useful
occupation shall be summoned
before the board, given a chance to
explain and, in the absence of a satl
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: isfactory explanation, to be inducted
i into the military service of the Unit
ed States.
"Any local board will be authorized
j to take action, whether it has origii
nal jurisdiction of the registrant or
i not; in other words, any man loafing
| around a pool room in Chicago, mayj
be held to answer to a Chicago Doaru.
even though he may be registered in
Xew York and lived there most of
his life.
"The regulations which apply to
idle registrants will be deemed to apply
also to gamblers of all descriptions
and employes, attendants of
bucket shops and race tracks, fortune
tellers, clairvoyants, palmists
and the like, who for the purpose of j
the regulations will be considered as j
idlers.
"The new regulations will also af-!
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feet the following classes:
"(a) Persons engaged in the serv-;
i ing of food and drink, or either, in <
i public places, including hotels and
| social clubs.
"(b) Passenger elevator operators,
and attendants, doormen, footmen
and other attendants of clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, office buildings
and bath houses.
"(c) Persons, including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and occu
pied in, and in connection with
games, sports and amusements, excepting
actual performers in legiti- i
mate concerts, operas or theatrical
performances.
"(d) Persons employed in domestic
service.
"(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mercantile
establishments.
"Men who are engaged as above,
or who are idlers, will not be permitted
to seek relief because of the
fact that they have drawn a late order
number or because they have been
placed in class two. three or four on
the grounds of dependency. The fact
that he is not usefully employed will
outweigh both of the above conditions.
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"It is expected that the list of nonuseful
occupations will be extended
from time to time as necessity will
require, so as to include persons in
other employments.
"Temporary absences from regular
employment not to exceed one week,
unless such temporary absences are
habitual or frequent, shall not be
considered as idleness. Regular vacations
will not be considered as absences
in this connection.
"The regulation throws a further
safeguard around men not usefully
employed, by providing that where
there are compelling domestic circumstances
that would not permit
change of employment hv the registrant
without disproportionate hardship
to his dependents, or where a
change from non-useful employment
or occupation would necessitate 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 under circumstances
which a board might
deem unsuitable for such employment
of women, the board may take
such circumstances into consideration
in making its decision."
Explains Regulation.
Explaining the new regulation and
the necessity for it, Gen. Crowder
said:
"The war has so far disorganized
the normal adjustment of industrial
man power as to prevent the enormous
industrial output and national
organization necessary to success.
"There is a popular demand for organization
of man power, but no direct
draft could be imposed at present.
"Steps to prom rutlaTeness antr
non-effective occupation will be welcomed
by our people.
"We shall give the idlers and men
not effectively employed the choice
between military service and effective
employment. Every man in the
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