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Show All Sorts of Persuasion Used to Keep British FaTnTllaidToiTr i j Vigorous measures have been taken tak-en in Britain to keep farm laborers on the land. Agricultural workers who have left the industry have been encouraged to return to it, and conscientious objectors are used to supplement the existing labor supply. sup-ply. Labor gangs and labor pools have been set up to supply labor for drainage, harvesting and other purposes. Special hostels have been built by the ministry of works and buildings to house mobile labor gangs and members of labor pools. Some groups live in small mobile trailers in which they travel around the country. The schedule of reserved occupations, occupa-tions, set up on the outbreak of war, was finally replaced in January, 1942, by a system of personal deferment, and all applications for deferment of military service in respect of workers on the land in the agricultural agricul-tural industry are dealt with by the district manpower boards under a ...vio wii ljciim special scheme operated jointly bv the ministry of agriculture and ! ministry of labor and national seJv ce through the county Wflr agricuT I tural executive committees In general, men over 25 if are bona fide farm , ' lhey ' retained in the i duTtrym"5' T 25 are subject to " under amination SS J Z "' to be "key" workers where theevmed ! employed, deferment is granted T an indefinite period. d for j |