Spanish speaking peoples in Utah, oral histories: book 8, numbers 81 through 90

Page 128

INTERVIEW: Nieves I believe. GC: Do you think the CCC was just ... did you have any rifle training or anything at all? Page 7 RN: No, we didn't have any rifle training. We didn't have any­thing to do with fire arms. What this people did in the morning: I always worked in camp, because I was assigned to camp, but in the morning they had civilian foremen. They were six civilian foremen, The men would split between all those foremen. So, Mr. Nielsen got, say, 25. The other men, you know .. until they split all these men in crews and they went out in separate projects, in separate places, they went in different directions. They got, they fixed these men lunch and they fixed clean cans to make coffee and stuff like that and have lunch on the field. But they were separated crews, assigbed to different people. These kids worked for the tax payers. Like if you were a big tax payer you could get a lot of help, you get 50 or 60 people that work for you for nothing. You know, it was bad because the little tax payer didn't get too much out of it, but the big tax payer did. BM: These camps then, the CCC, during the war then, while the Americans were out fighting the war, was this camp, it was \IR('d 1\R lAbor wi.thi,n tlw Unit:('d St:nt;('a? WnA thflt th" plll:.·poa"7 RN: No, when the war started in 1941, the Civilian Conservation