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Show PLACE BAN fii IMPORTATION OF MEXICAN LABOR'; ! i WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 No more permits for the importation of Mexican and West Indian labor will he granted, the department of labor announced today, to-day, and permits already granted will be void after January 15. Aliens permitted per-mitted to enter temporarily for war work wjll be repatriated gradually, without interfering with agricultural or other work now in progress. The admission of semi-skilled laborers la-borers from Canada will be discontinued, discontin-ued, but present arrangements whereby where-by skilled laborers are admitted only when they cannot be employed in their own country and when those countries havo given consent to their departure will be continued for the present. Conferences Con-ferences on this subject are under way between the United States and Canadian Cana-dian governments. Mexicans admitted as agricultural laborers will bo permitted to remain for the present agricultural season, or until the particular work for which they were imported has come to an end. Railroad laborers admitted from Mexico may remain until further orders, or-ders, with the understanding that the railroad administration will make the best use of them by transferring those who have boen working in the more northern sections to sections where the climatic conditions are better adapted to them. If that cannot be done, steps will be taken to return them to Mexico. Mexicans brought here to work in mines will be returned as promptly as individual cases will permit and the matter of their stay will be considered con-sidered in conference with the railroad administration. oo |