Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 12 | Utah is Called on for 500 Laborers

camp, too. is furnished free. The camp requires all sorts of skilled labor, mil orers of this lype cannot be r2THtl with common labor, except as such labor. la-bor. Mechanics mav accompany laborers to the camp at government expense, nut will be required to take common work up to the first payday when they reach camp. The first shipment. Mr. Jons expects, will be made from Salt lake about next Thursday. UTAH IS CALLED Oi FOR 51 LABORERS In addition to supplying labor for various vari-ous government institutions east and west. Utah has been called uopn to recruit re-cruit 500 common laborers for the federal fed-eral nitrate plant .at Mussel Shoals. .Ma., J. G. Jones, recruiting chief of the Air Nitrates corporation of Mussel Shoals, reached Salt Lake yesterday to undertake the recruiting work. isse! Shoals is looated between Flor-imh Flor-imh and Sheffield, in the northeast corner cor-ner of Alabama, the triple towns comprising com-prising a population of some 40,000 people. peo-ple. Florence and Sheffield each, at normal nor-mal times, accommodate about 10,000 persons. Mussel Shoals, therefore, has about 1!0,000 at the present time. The Air Nitrates corporation Is a federal fed-eral subsidiary, formed about a year ago to manufacture nitrates for the making of a certain grade of ammunition for use In airplane weapons. The material from Which the manufactured nitrate is made is taken from the shoal of the Tennessee Tennes-see river. One unit of the plant has al-readv al-readv been delivered by the construction' agents Into the hands of the federal corporation cor-poration and a considerable amount of nitrates is daily being delivered to the transportation company. The. entire plant is planned to cover approximately twenty-five twenty-five acres; The wage offered by the recruiting agent for laborers Is 3.i cents an hour, a day constituting ten hours. The government, govern-ment, however, allows pay for the dinner hour at noon. Thus a worker receives $3,S5 per day of ten hours instead of the stipulated $3.50. The climate at Mussel Shoals is said to bo ideal the- year around, with moderate mod-erate heat in summer and only light frosts in winter. Living conditions, according ac-cording to Mr. .Tones, arc equal to the standard established in all government labor camps. The general water supply of the town Is drawn from the Tennessee river, but an ample supply of pure water is derived from innumerable wells sunk on the reservation. Ample housing accommodations ac-commodations are provided for workers. with clean beds and linen. The government govern-ment also provides many forms of amusement, amuse-ment, including recreation, moving pictures pic-tures and the like, while the Y. M. C. A. supports a large department in the center cen-ter of the assembly area of the men. The place has a general hospital with a capacity ca-pacity of 750 beds, as well as two auxiliary aux-iliary emergency hospitals for Isolation purposes. These institutions are administered adminis-tered by military medical authorities. Throughout tiio reservation there are mess halls, cafes and cafeterias, where meals can be obtained at fairly reasonable reason-able prices, Mr. Jones says. Two thousand thou-sand bungalows of the four-room type have been provided for families of worn-era worn-era and officials at the plant. An order has just been released for the erection of 300O more in Florence and Sheffield. Free transportation and meals are supplied sup-plied recruits on route, and lodging at the