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Show nn- MEXICO OPENS OFFICE TO SUPPLY FARM WORKERS r CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex , Sept 20. Arturo de Sanicho, consul general for Mexico at Laredo. In a telegram Sunday Sun-day to Hoy Mills, secretary f the Rural Rur-al lmd owners' association here, announced an-nounced the opening of "the agency for protection ot Mexican laborers In .uea I-iredo." The agency will supply cotton pickers pick-ers and other farm labor to American farmers and ranchers and will be operated op-erated by the Mexican government, tho telegram said. American employers who call on the. agent y for laborers will be required to sign formal contracts, the consul general gen-eral said Laborers thus employed will pass through tho United States Immigration Immi-gration offke as contract laborers." Establishment of the agency was I agreed on at a recent conference between be-tween Mexican officials and representatives repre-sentatives of Texas farmers and business busi-ness men at Iiredo. |