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Show More Mexican Labor Secured For Farmers i Thirteen-hundred Mexican nationals na-tionals to supplement the labor supply needed in the state of Utah will be provided during the corning crop season, announces G. Alvin Carpenter, state supervisor super-visor of emergency farm labor and economist of the Utah Extension Ex-tension Service. Use of the Mexican labor this season is only one small seg-1 ment of the labor force needed ' in this state, Supervisor Carpenter Carp-enter said. Every available man, woman and child, in addition to imported foreign labor, will need to be recruited to harvest necessary neces-sary wartime crops. The imported labor is under joint contract with the Mexican government, and the Office of Labor of the War Food Administration. Adminis-tration. At the end of a six-month six-month period, approximately November No-vember 15, the laborers will return re-turn to Mexico, and are coming into the United States for agri-cutlural agri-cutlural purposes only, it was emphasized. Mr. Carpenter states that ne- gotiations are also under way for the use of Japanese labor, which will be obtained through contract with the War Relocation Reloca-tion Authority and the Office of Labor. To handle interstate labor, and to sign government contracts, six different county committees have incorporated. These are Cache, Box Elder, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake and Utah, with the possibility possi-bility of three more forming in the near future in Millard, Sevier, and Sanpete counties. Labor camps have also been set up by the Office of Labor which handles 'transportation and housing. The camps are at Tremonton, Willard, Roy, Orem, Spanish Fork and Amalga, with a possibility of one at Salina Individual farmers are also expected ex-pected to assist in the housing situation. The state supervisor will be assisted in the coming year's work by Mr. Osmond O. Jorgen-scn, Jorgen-scn, a veteran of both world wars. A graduate of Utah State Agricultural College, and a man with broad agricultural experience, exper-ience, Mr. Jorgensen's job will be to assist with supplemental iabur and the recruitment of youth. |