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Show LABOR C0-0PERAT1DFJ BEGUM CH Mutual Agreement on Im-portation Im-portation of Workmen for War Purposes. WASHINGTON', Feb. 5. Complete cooperation co-operation between the United States and Canada In the effective distribution of labor for war purposes w'as inaugurated today. The department of labor announced an-nounced that by mutual agreement Canada Can-ada will not import labor from this country coun-try without the consent of the United States, and American employers will not import Canadian labor without the consent con-sent of Canada. Co-ordination of efforts of the two governments gov-ernments to solve particularly the farm labor problem is expected to meet the insistent demands of England, Italy and France for more wheat and other foodstuffs. food-stuffs. Agreement between- the two governments govern-ments was reached at a conference between be-tween W. W. Cory, deputy minister of the interior of Canada, and Anthony Caminettl, commissioner general of immigration im-migration of he United States, held at the department of labor here recently. The administration of the co-operative movement between Canada and this country coun-try has been placed in the hands of the standing committee of conference on labor la-bor matters of the two governments, and the committee has been enlarged by the appointment of John B. Densmore, director di-rector of the United states employment service of the department of labor and Senator G. D. Robertson of Canada. Canada's labor requirements will be reported re-ported to the United States employment service, which, through Its various offices, will fill the demands across the border with anv surplus of unemployed that may be available here at the time. It was made clear that the agreement was reciprocal and that any surplus labor in Canada would be available for the United States farmers. The same arrangement ar-rangement was in effect last year, when this country furnished harvesters for the wheat fields of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Saskatche-wan, while eastern Canada sent men to dig Maine potatoes and loggers to cut timber for American ships. Differences in time of harvesting are expected to permit the use of the same laborers in both countries without handicap handi-cap to either. In previous seasons, harvest har-vest corps, which began work early in the summer with the ripening of grain In Oklahoma, continued their way north as the season progressed and finally completed com-pleted their work late In the autumn in Canada. Flans for mobilizing agricultural workers work-ers for American farms is proceeding under un-der the direction of a special section of the employment service, which has every expectation that men will be available to help this spring in putting in the seed which will contribute to the allies-victory allies-victory over Germany. All American demands de-mands will be filled before any workers are permitted to go into Canada. |