The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-08-02
II Sent Yesterday from Local Of.
flee of .Federal-State Elm.
ployment Service; Help
Build Powder Plant.
WORKING CONDITIONS
GOOD SAYS CARPENTER
Brands Rumors of Restrictions
Placed on Men at Construc-
tion Camp as False; Form
German Propaganda.

AT three o'clock yesterday after
noon seventeen Grady county men
recruited by the Public Service Sec
ton of the United States department
OF labor left for Nashville. Tenn, to
enter government war work service
In the construction of an immense
powder plant that Is under way
there. This Is the first war work
increment to leave Chickasha under
federal employment auspices.
What promises to be only the fore
running shipment OF mammoth la
Dor movement to government build
ing camps left Chlckasha yesterday
for Oklahoma City where state head
quarters for centralized recruiting
win forward a company OF several
hundred men to construction camps
today. Electricians, pipe filters,
painters and common laborers made
up the first contingent from the To-
cal branch.
The United States department of
labor has launched a campaign to
raise several million men to take
over war relief work in the shipping
ports and munition plans OF the coun-
try and every community will be fine
combed during. the fall and winter
drive, it was announced this week.
. An employees city eight miles
square and constructed exclusively
for volunteers to the government
powder plant work, is springing up
near Nashville, government bulletins
informed the local federal labor Of
flee yesterday. With an eye only to
the accommodation of relief crews
United States contractors and archi-
tects are working overtime now to
have the city completed before the
arrival of winter Houses built to
the order of permanent labroers who
intend moving their families there
will make up the federal powder
plant town.
Unfavorable reports which have
been brought back here by a few
men who have returned from Nash
vile dissatisfied cannot be credited,
examiners in charge of the employ
ment bureau here announced late yes
terday. This statement was made
following the receipt of detailed in
formation of actual conditions there
furnished in a report of c. L, Wright.
local carpenter who has just re-
turned from the works after five
months service in the camp.
Working conditions are good in
Nashville and the living accommo-
dations at the powder plant works
are first class" Mr. Wright told the
local employment bureau. Govern
ment work furnishes a man with the
best jobs in the country and the man
who comes back wit ha calamity howl
is a Stacker"
That the worl1men employed at the
Nashville camp are protected In ev-
cry possible way to avoid accidents
and ward off bad health is the opin-
ion of Mr.. Wright. Houses in the
federal town are strictly modern and
nicely built and every advantage Of
fered anywhere is held out to the
volunteer. Free transportation on
! daily trains that run to and from
Nashville are among other things
mentioned by the local man as MAX
ing life there ideal Rumors of bind
ing contracts that compel camp work
men to stay for set period or go to
war are but one division of German
propaganda, the man stated to em-
ployment officials.
Board in Nashville may be had at
$500 per week and at the camp for
$3.50. All public baths, picture shows
and popular amusements are free.
Mr.. Wright will return to the gov
ernment work after a short vacation
! here