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Show Utah Names Heads For Farm Labor Recruitment Job i Responsibility for recruiting and supplying farm laborers has been given to the Extension Service of the state agricultural colleges throughout the country. Utah has appointed G. Alvin Carpenter, extension economist, supervisor of the program, with O. O. Jorgensen, veteran of World War I and II, as his assistant. as-sistant. Much of the spade work for the 1944 farm labor demands has already been done by these labor experts. Negotiations have been entered into with the Mexican Mexi-can government to supply this state with 1300 Mexican nationals nation-als during the next six months; with the War Relocation Authority Auth-ority for several hundred Japanese Japan-ese evacuees, with schools for 'teen-age volunteers, and they have sent out appeals for help from non-farm groups. First of the Mexican contigent will arrive here about May 1 and the second group between May 10 and May 15. They will be assigned to the counties where the need is greatest. Foreign workmen will be housed in labor la-bor camps which are being operated op-erated by the Office of Labor with Lyman Roberts of Salt Lake City in charge. At the end of the season, the Mexicans will be returned to their native country coun-try and the Japanese will go back to the relocation centers. Farmers who need laborers during the planting, growing or harvesting seasons should make their applications early to the county Extension agent's office. Li ' '' 't' WA |