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Show INCREASING LABOR SUPPLY WHILE our country releases more men for the army and navy we must turn more men to the production of ships and crops. One supply is the enrollment in the high schools of the country and it will be a blessing to many of these young men laborers. Another supply, especially for lighter light-er kinds of farm labor, is the older men who usually are not enrolled in the industries. in-dustries. In two months the Chicago Employers Employ-ers Association, found permanent places for three thousand men over 45 as farm laborers. Another plan is to enlist vital healthy heal-thy women in the industrial army to supply the offices, factories and farm labor needs. There are especially in towns nearly two generations of women who in times of prosperity never did a day's work. Their physical development would be a heritage of good health and race stamina, especially if they learned to work in the open air. Thousands of such women work now in the fruit sections, picking fruit and preparing fruit and vegetables in the canneries. |