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Show these foreign workers in the Umt-1 ed States. BAHAMA NEGROES IMPORTED FOR HARVESTING CROPS To relieve the shortage of farm workers, the United States is recruiting re-cruiting 5,000 Bahaman Negroes, including 2,000 females, and as expected ex-pected to use a maximum of. 50,000 Mexican agricultural laborers. The Bahama Negroes will work in southern Florida for the present, harvesting the bean crop and later will be transferred to other areas as crops come in. They will be housed in camps operated by the Federal Security Administration. The first contingent of these workers work-ers is probably in the United States at this time. In the Southwest, something more than 1,000 Mexican workers will be brought in weekly. Some of them will be used to maintain railway rail-way rights-of-way and others will probably be utilized for farm work. Organized labor has expressed its opposition to the importation of foreign laborers until it is clearly clear-ly shown that domestic labor is not available. Spokesmen contend that domestic labor is available but that wages, working hours and living conditions are not such as to attract at-tract American workers. As we understand the present experiment, the laborers will be temporarily permitted to reside in the United States but when the need for their labor passes, they will be returned to their own country. coun-try. There is, so far as we know, no intention to permanently settle |