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. •tFOREIGNERS TO HELP HARVESTMcIntosh county’s farmCROPS. WILL DO OTHER WORK.IStarting Manday, July 10 anajpny ,p?ison*’ camp will- be~estob~ Ushed in Eufaula \accordtog to Henry *F. Poison ' lt;Kun^r r agent. \ Fifty - prisoners captured :.Jby the billed nations to••Aide*and - brought 4o ^hls - c6uht^r ^li»ttl be, quartered to the Armory bese i and will be available to county farmers to helping harvest the-county crops.More prisoners, will be brought in .fori term work here later if the demand for farm labpr. is urgent Poison said., A numbjer of . the prisoners sent here from. Mc-Alesteij '-have been working on . county farms near Eufaula this week, f .£•Ruben, Turner, of Fame, and his brother and father were the first ifi IVIctotosh county to make use of .the.vG^jman prison laborThey ' have worked from 20 to►30 mpnvj for approximately one week, »q^pppifcg cotton, and the work pias been very satisfactory acordin; to) -Mf. Turner.They VaTe made available to farmers at three-fourths of - prevailing * Wages and the farmer furnishes ' transportation to and from 'cbinp at McAlester.Because of the guards, they are n6t jetting, them out in small numbers, so farmers interested in this* labor should if possible group: their ‘ work with neighbors and make i their requests together, in order' to keep the men in one group’ 1 'Four or five days are required to get a contract through, so in-, jfcrestid farmers should make applications . considerably ahead ofthe time they heed them. The County agent 1 isr 'trying to work ‘! out a plan whereby they may be available in smaller groups for haying, which is one of the biggest labor demands at present.
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Eufaula Indian Journal
Eufaula, Oklahoma, US
Thu, Jul 15, 1943
Page 5
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VA, USA 23 Aug 2018
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