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Show j All Sorts of Persuasion Used to Keep British Farm Hands on Land Vigorous measures have been tak-, tak-, en in Britain to keep farm laborers I on the land. Agricultural workers ' who have left the industry have been encouraged to return to it, and conscientious objectors are used to supplement the existing labor supply. sup-ply. Labor gangs and labor pools have been set up to supply labor for drainage, harvesting and other purposes. Special hostels have been built by the ministry of works and buildings to house mobile labor gangs and members of labor pools. Some groups live in small mobile trailers in which they travel around the country. The schedule of reserved occupations, occupa-tions, set up on the outbreak of war, was finally replaced in January, 1942 by a system of personal deferment, and all applications for deferment of military service in respect of workers on the land in the agricultural agricul-tural industry are dealt with by the district manpower boards under a UMUU special scheme operated jointly by the ministry of agriculture and the mrnistry of labor and national service serv-ice through the county war agricultural agricul-tural executive committees. In general, men over 25, if thev are bona fide farm workers, are retained in the industry; men under 25 are subject to an individual examination ex-amination and if they are deemed to be key" workers where they arP employed, deferment is granted for an Indefinite period. |