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Show Consider Use of War Prisoners Possibility of using prisoners of war in farming and industry in U. S. areas where free labor is not available have been studied by rep- - resentatives of WMC and the War Department. Limited use of prisoners prison-ers on farms was begun last summer. sum-mer. The employer is required to , pay the wage prevailing in his community, and the prisoner gets credit of 80 cents a day for personal person-al expenditures, the remainder going go-ing to the Government for camp maintenance. |