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Show ' ARE IHKDU FRANCE Itelglmi Whir for I'lnti eltet I Ii Ids I Not Wniitiit. Kfforts of tho Utah-Idaho Hugar company to bring from I'ranro nnd llelglum tefugeea and widow to work III the beet field were defeated )es-tenia) )es-tenia) when the state department nt Washington notified T It Cutler vice president and gemral manager of the company, that It would he Impossible to bring Ilelglan here, a I'rance nettled them bndl), sa)s Hnlurdn)V Halt I-ake Tribune. It was believed b) Mr Cutler anil other officer of the sugar compan) that the bringing of Ilelglan refugee to thl section would relieve the labor situation to n great extent, nnd ns the greater port of them are conversant with work In the sugar beet field, it largi imp might he produced Mr Cutler said that tho labor situation situa-tion Ii mute and that an Inrrcns In the farm acreage will mean that laborer la-borer will have tf. be brought Into the western country. He sn)s that the Culled Htati government should bring a largo number of I'lllplno to thl country In order that farmers, orchardlst and beet growtr might have sufficient labor. Investigation show the Filipinos to be good workers work-ers In tho fields. Mr. Cutler said that when It he-came he-came apparent that a shortage of labor waa at hand In the Western t state, he, with others, took up the matter of securing aid from Kurope Tho llelglnns who Men to frame nre for tho most part farmers It wn the thought of Mr Culler that the widow and their children could be brought to the Intcrmnuntnln rountr) nnd given bonus In return for lal or In the beet fields. Hevernl vreiks ago Mr Cutler took the matter up with the officials In Washington nnd this week lie received a telegram stating that the refugie were needed In Frame I.l.tlc hope I entertained b) Mr Cutler for help In tho lalmr matter from tho KasUrn stales, ns the high wage which iro being paid In the munition fnetorle are ketplng la 'borer In that section "It seem to me that the onl) course left open nt thl time I for the government gov-ernment to arrange to send Filipinos to thl cotintr),' said Mr Cutkr, ' We have been trying to get llilglan refugees refu-gees nnd widow to lome to the Inter mountain count!) In order to aid In the work of securing larger crop. I have been ndvlscd by Ihn nuthorltle In Washington that It I Impossible to st i lire their strvkrs, a Franco need them We cannot gel Chinese or Jap anesc labor oil account of the Aslatli ixcluslon net I think California made n great mistake when It started tho fight on the Japanrse That statt will have an Incrense of 10 per cent In sugar production nnd 25 per n nt In other crop nnd no labor I to be had |