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Show uu I Attempt to Impede Labor Mobilization Has Been Discovered SAN JUAN. PORTO RICO, Oct. 5. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) An attempt to prevent or impede im-pede the mobilization of Porto RIcan laborers for transportation to the mainland for work in war Industries has been discovered by the United States employment office in San Juan. Special Agent Roberts declares such action is directly against the vital interest in-terest of the nation and that if the persons responsible are found out they will be severely dealt with by the federal fed-eral authorities. The fact that 3000 Porto Rican workmen havo already left the island and that many more may leave has aroused resentment and opposition and an effort to discourage men from Joining Join-ing tho outgoing army of workers has been going on far at least a couple of weeks. In one large town where two weeks ago last Sunday it was arranged to hold a mass meeting to explain to the laborers tho purpose for which they were sont north and the treatment j they would receive, It is said that the agents employed by tho sugar men of the vicinity were out offering all the cane workers $1.50 to continue work "during the entire day. Recently the assistant as-sistant examiners In Guayama staled! that the work of Oiling tho quota was being held back by the discouraging, reports and accounts of the Avar work disseminated among the mon. "it is the kind of thing that the I. W. V. has been charged with doing in the mainland," says Mr. Roberts. v oo |