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Show m Leaders Study Labor spects for New Crop Year ie county farm labor lead-ive lead-ive begun to make com-isive com-isive plans for the 1945 icason following a meeting v in the county agricul-ngent's agricul-ngent's oftice, according to J. Ravsten, county su- r- ounty farmers who signed ts with the labor associating associa-ting the past year have vited to attend a meeting ' 13 when new directors ed officrs will be elected, Mr. Ravsten said. G. Alvin Carpenter, state labor la-bor supervisor, told committee members that there would be no Japanese housing program next year. He explained, however, that farmers were free to sign contracts con-tracts with individual Japanese either on sharecrop or wage basis. Mr. Carpenter said that the slato committee is making arrangements ar-rangements with the office of labor la-bor to recruit Mexican nationals or German prisoners of war for use in mobile farm labor camps next year. He expressed confidence confi-dence that Cache county would receive a share of these imported workers. Officials of the Amalgamated Sugar company, California Packing Pack-ing corporation, Lewiston and West Cache tomato growers associations, as-sociations, the Cache pea growers grow-ers association and other cooperatives cooper-atives gave estimates on acreage and labor needs at the meeting. |
