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Show STOP IMPORT OF MEXICAN LABOR Ban Also on West Indies; No Semi-skilled Canadians. "WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. No more permits for the importation of Mexican and West Indian labor will be granted, the department of labor announced today, to-day, and permits already granted will be void alter January 15. Aliens permitted per-mitted to enter temporarily for war work will be repatriated gradually without interfering with agricultural or other work now in progress. The admission of semi-skilled laborers from Canada will be discontinued, but present arrangements whereby skilled laborers are admitted only wlien they cannot be employed in their own country coun-try and when those countries have given consent to their departure, will be continued for the present. Conferences Confer-ences on this subject are under way be-tweon be-tweon the United States and Cauadiau governments. Mexicans admitted as agricultural laborers la-borers will be permitted to remain for the present agricultural season or until the particular work for which they wore imported has come to an end. Railroad laborers admitted from Mexico may remain re-main until further orders, with the understanding un-derstanding that the railroad administration adminis-tration will make the best use of them by transferring those who have been work in tr in the more northern sections to Beet ions where the climatic conditions condi-tions are better adapted to them. If that cannot be done, steps will be taken to return them to Mexico. Mexicans brought here to work in mines will be returned as promptly as individual cases will permit, and the matter of their stay will bo considered in conference with the railroad administration. |