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Show Utah Indians Help to Relieve Worker Shortage I The original Americans, the American Am-erican Indians, have left the reservation re-servation of Utah in large numbers to answer the distress call for workers in various war industries throughout the state. These Indians are in addition to those who have answered the call of the armed services. In an effort to relieve its serious shortage one smelter sent an agent into a reservation to recruit workers. work-ers. Soon trucks were busy haul-. haul-. ing the Indians and their belongings to the smelting town. These men. long adapted to the carefree out-of-doors life, have readjusted themselves with remarkable re-markable speed to the grind of regular work inside a plant. Some cling to their personal desires de-sires however, as can be evidenced by various incidents. One of particular par-ticular interest came out when the superintendent of a plant called an Indian into his office and asked him to change from the day shift to the night shift, whereupon the Indian replied : "Indian work day, Indian sleep nights: Indian continue work day, sleep nights." The Indian realizes that mining is of paramount importance to the war effort. |