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Show Mexican Nationals Arrive in May To Aid Crop Season First allotment of Mexican nationals na-tionals to come into Utah for the 1944 crop season will arrive about May 1, states G. Alvin Carpenter, supervisor of the Farm Labor program of the Utah Extension Service, who recently returned from a regional conference con-ference in Portland, Oregon, which dealt with the recruitment of foreign workers. Five hundred laborers will be included in the first allotment, i and they will be placed in the counties of greatest need. Be-: Be-: tween May 1 and May 1, 400 1 additional laborers will arrive in , the state for allocation to coun-i coun-i lies on the basis of need, i "Utah has requested 1300 Mex-j Mex-j ican nationals for the season's ' operations, but owing to transportation trans-portation difficulties and the fact that orders from other western west-ern states are large for May, the War Food Administration has had to allocate the early orders on the basis of need so that each state will get its proportionae share of early-arrivals," declares Supervisor Carpenter. In addition to the Mexican na-! na-! tional laborers, certifications have already been sent to WFA for 300 Japanese evacuees for Cache County to arrive May 15 to aid in thinning sugar beets and for other farm work. Utah County has also had orders placed for 400 evacuees to arrive between May 1 and July 1. The farm workers will be transported by WFA and housed in labor camps under the management man-agement and supervision of the office of labor, with Lyman Roberts of Salt Lake City, area representative, in charge. Mr. Carpenter emphasis the fact that although this force of foreign workers will aid materially materi-ally in producing and harvesting crops in this state, it will only be a small portion of the workers that are actually needed. He adds that efforts must be intensified inten-sified in every county to recruit youth from the schools, and men and women from the towns and cities to fill the gap of the boys that have been drafted from the farms for the armed services. |