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...members of the conscientious objectors' camp at Germfask, Mich, we would like to comment on your story (TIME, Feb. 19). . . . There is a real news story here. It is the story of the American Government's first experiment with unpaid forced labor...
NICHOLAS MIGLIORINO JOHN LEWIS RICHARD LAZARUS JOHN MENEZES CHRISTIAN H. KEHL Germfask, Mich...
Most of the young men in Selective Service's problem are conscientious objectors who were plucked from other camps as troublemakers and sent to Camp Germfask, Mich. Officials had hoped that at Germfask, an old CCC camp on the 95,000-acre Seney Wild Life Refuge in northern Michigan, the troublemakers might mend their ways. But there has been little reformation...
...what he could do about the situation, Lieut. Colonel Simon P. Dunkle of Selective Service headquarters went to Germfask. He admitted there was little that could be done, without a new law. At week's end, while a few better-behaved C.O.s tried to do all the camp chores, the Tobacco Road Gang lolled on their bunks...
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