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Show Placements of Farm Workers Utah's farm labor committees and agricultural placement agencies, agen-cies, made 94,715 placements of 105,218 requests by the farmers during 1944, G. Alvin Carpenter, state farm labor supervisor, announced an-nounced Wednesdav in oresentine the annual report which covered all aspects of the farm labor program pro-gram in the state. The report prepared by the Utah Extension service, revealed that placements were made on 9014 different farms, or approximately approxi-mately one-third of all farms in the state. Thirty-eight farm la-- bor offices functioned during the year. Sources 'of labor iwhich made up the placements included 17,700 youth, who were recruited large, ly through cooperation of school officials in Utah. Women made up 4 per cent of the total for 1663 placements while 58 per cent of all placements were of 2665 imported im-ported workers and locally-recruited men, Mr. Carpenter said. At the peak of the crop season, sea-son, 700 Mexicans, 1200 Japanese evacuees, 656 prisoners of war and 200 Indians were employed in 13 different counties. The two peak placement months were July and October, he pointed point-ed out. He contracted this with the peak months of normal years, June and September, and said the late season accounted for tha change. He praised highly the work of form fnmiliPR in Tneetillf? DTOdUC- tion goals during the year. Mr. Carpenter said negotiations now are being made to obtain prisoners prison-ers of war and Mexican nationals nation-als for 1945. In addition, the pro. gram for recruiting youth and lo. cal labor will be intensified in all areas of the state during the coming season. |