Show I T BUREAU APPEALS FOR FARM ARM F LABOR Demands for Help Hell Insistent Even Men len With Families lies Wanted as Tenants Chicago Feb 5 Percy Perc Percy L. L Prentiss s. s chief of oC the Chicago bureau of Immigration Issued an appeal for or gration today toda farm laborers to supply the demands s of farmers all over the central west The for demands from the rural regions help are insistent man many farmers re requesting requesting re- re with wives and even questing m men n families to take places as tenants Most Moat of ot the employers promise good wages ages for tor sIx months at least U. U S. S and Canada to op Co-op Co Washington Feb 5 Complete te cooperation co cooperation co co- operation between the United States and Canada in the effective distribution distribution distribution tion of or labor for tor war purposes was In Inaugurated In- In 1 toda today The Tue department of ot labor jabor announced that b by mutual agreement agree agree- ment meat Canada will not import labor from this country without the tho consent of oC the United States and ancI American employers employers em em- will not import Canadian an labor without the consent of ot Canada CanaLla The administration of ot the cooperative opera co cooperative tive ti movement has been placed in the tho hands of ot the tue standing committee of or conference on labor matters of ot the two committee has governments Jo and ancI tho tue been enlarged b by the appointment of or John B. B Densmore director of ot the United Stat States s employment service ser of ot the department of labor an and Senator G. G D. D Robertson of Canada Women om n Head Heady for Farm Work York Vom Women n throughout hout tho the country countr are expressing their willingness to work on farms accord according InS InS' to a a. statement Issued is issued issued is- is sued today toda b by the division on womans woman's war work worle of th the committee on public i information n formati on The statement cites tI figures ures showing that there are at present women worn wom en n in the tho United States successfully engaged in agriculture The first lines of or work In which women omen will be likely to Increase their farming activities said the report is In vegetable gardening poultry rais rats raisInS raisInS' InS InS' butter makings making hog hol raising raisinS and the cultivation of ot crops of or fruit and vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables and harvesting and picking The a agricultural department recommends recommends recommends mends that women be trained to manage manage manase man man- age ase horses so that they can drive reapers reapers reap reap- ers binders and cultivators |