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Show Plans Announced For The National Farm Women Labor Set Up Given larger towns and cities. Consideration of the transportation transporta-tion problem is also recommended. Mr. Corson said, indicating that in cases where farmers are unwilling to arrange for transportation, some other means of getting the farm women from Job to job might have to be found. He also recommended that they consider the sources from which women for the farms could best be drawn, whether from high schools, colleges, or neighboring ciUe. Representatives of the employment employ-ment service also were instructed to discuss with farmers and cooperating cooperat-ing civic agencies the question of subsistence needs of women workers. It was pointed out that in many cases the farmer and his wife might both house and board the workers, but that in other cases it might be more practical for groups of women to rent quarters and establish a .housekeeping arrangement, sharing the living expenses. "Carefully worked out control schedules for routing units of women wom-en workers from one farm job to another," Mr. McNutt said, "may be necessary in many communities. This will be particularly true where a group of women with headquarters headquar-ters in a community center or camp are routed progressively to work for a number of farmers or producers. The employment service office through close contact and cooperation coopera-tion of the farm employers should be responsible for routing and controlling con-trolling the movement of such units." Women who want to take the place of farm workers who have gone into the army or the war production plants are going to be told when and where they must be needed to help out because of local shortages of regular farm labor, la-bor, Federal Security Administrator Administra-tor Paul V. McNutt announced this week. The United States employment employ-ment service, he explained, is now completing plans for handling, on a local or area basis, this wartime labor problem. "Farmers in many communities, particulaly the orchardists, berry and vegetable growers," the administrator admin-istrator added, "are going to have to turn to women for help. "But," lie added, "This does not mean that the hundreds of thousands of women who are ready and willing to work on farms as a patriotic service serv-ice .should get into overalls and go looking for jobs. The great bulk of the farm labor will continue to ho. done by men and women who customarily do this kind of work for a living. Recruiting of women as extra hands, in communities where the usual sources of farm lalxr prove Inadequate, must be carefully planned and centralized in the local U. S. employment office. of-fice. This auxiliary labor force of women workers must be tied in with the regular established organization for recruiting and placing farm workers if the women are to have a chance to perform a really useful use-ful service." Instructions have been sent to all regional and state representatives of the United States employment service, the administrator announced, an-nounced, to determine: 1. How many women, if any, will be needed in any particular community com-munity or area, and when. 2. The steps that should be taken to assure the recruitment of women. 3. Steps to enlist the cooperation of schools, women's groups, and other civic organization. The primary responsibilities of the employment service are, the administrator ad-ministrator pointed out: 1. The determination of the need for women workers in any given locality, particularly in those states and areas where highly seasonal crops are grown. 2. The registering of women work-" work-" ers at the U. S. employment offices. of-fices. 3. The filling of orders from farmers farm-ers for extra hands. Mr. McNutt said that John J. Corson, director of the U. S. employment employ-ment service, had instructed all state directors and farm placement supervisors su-pervisors to take steps to get the cooperation of the local representatives representa-tives of the department of agriculture, agri-culture, farm organizations, and other local business and civic groups. At "working" conferences, he suggested sug-gested they formulate definite plans for meeting the emergency and determining de-termining the responsibility of the cooperating persons of agencies. In any plan adopted it was urged that local farm women be employed before looking for recruits in the |