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Show Appropriations Bill (iives Work Signal For Labor Program With President Roosevelt's recent re-cent signing of an appropriations bill granting $:!(J,()()(),(I()IJ for recruiting, re-cruiting, housing and transportation transpor-tation of laborers to aid farmers of the nation in the 1944 crop season, Utah has been given the go-ahead signal, Extension Director Di-rector W. W. Owens announces. ( 1. Alvin Carpenter, Utali Extension Exten-sion Economist, has been reappointed reap-pointed state supervisor of the Farm Labor program. Funds for the work will be divided between the Extension Service and the Office of Labor, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Of this money, a portion will come to Utah to be used in conducting con-ducting the program. Work in 1944 will be directed similarly to the program of last year, advises the state director. The program will be conducted in close cooperation with many agencies in Utah such as county farm labor committees, federal and state agencies, schools, processors, pro-cessors, civic clubs, churches, and other groups. The 1943 crop year showed a total of 61,804 total farm placements place-ments made, 7,859 different farmers with whom one or more workers were placed; and 29,172 individual workers placed in jobs. This program was conducted jointly by the Extension Service and the U. S. Employment Service. Serv-ice. Youth recruited from schools was one of the major sources of labor in Utah, and will undoubtedly undoubt-edly constitute a large percentage percent-age of 1944's total labor pool. Special sources of labor which should supply workers this season sea-son include Japanese evacuees, Indians from both this state and surrounding states, and Italian prisoners from the Ogden internment intern-ment camp who will be utilized principally in Weber and Box Elder counties. In addition, there are possibilities that Mexican Mexi-can nationals will be imported into some of the counties having intensive crops and critical . needs. |