Farm Labor Program: 1943, Hearings ... 78th Congress, 1st Session, on the Appropriation for the Farm Labor Program, Calendar Year 19431943 - 220 pages |
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... problem as the most difficult one facing us in meeting the food - production goals for 1943 : We feel that we must take every step to meet that problem , out of available labor , as efficiently as we possibly can . This supplemental ...
... problem as the most difficult one facing us in meeting the food - production goals for 1943 : We feel that we must take every step to meet that problem , out of available labor , as efficiently as we possibly can . This supplemental ...
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... problem : What are we going to pay those people who are looking for work , such as Mexicans or people who live in Tennessee , for instance , and whom we are now transporting to Florida ? We say that we will give them a minimum of $ 3 a ...
... problem : What are we going to pay those people who are looking for work , such as Mexicans or people who live in Tennessee , for instance , and whom we are now transporting to Florida ? We say that we will give them a minimum of $ 3 a ...
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... problem because the weather is moderate ? Major WALKER . Most of the growers there have housing . The CHAIRMAN . But it is not as serious a problem as it would be in the north ? Major WALKER . No , sir ; it is not . The CHAIRMAN . And ...
... problem because the weather is moderate ? Major WALKER . Most of the growers there have housing . The CHAIRMAN . But it is not as serious a problem as it would be in the north ? Major WALKER . No , sir ; it is not . The CHAIRMAN . And ...
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... problem . Is this the best solution ? We want men on the farms . Is this method you are suggesting an effective solution of the problem ? Secretary WICKARD . It is a stopgap . I hope that we do not find it necessary to transport ...
... problem . Is this the best solution ? We want men on the farms . Is this method you are suggesting an effective solution of the problem ? Secretary WICKARD . It is a stopgap . I hope that we do not find it necessary to transport ...
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... . The CHAIRMAN . All of these areas to which labor has been trans- ported are in specialized crops , with a peak labor problem . Major WALKER . Yes , sir . " The CHAIRMAN . But the labor that is really going 18 FARM LABOR PROGRAM , 1943.
... . The CHAIRMAN . All of these areas to which labor has been trans- ported are in specialized crops , with a peak labor problem . Major WALKER . Yes , sir . " The CHAIRMAN . But the labor that is really going 18 FARM LABOR PROGRAM , 1943.
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agencies agreement agricultural labor agricultural workers amount appropriation Army assistance average Budget Bureau California cents an hour CHAIRMAN Colonel BRUTON committee contract cooperation cost crops DARROW Director domestic workers employed Employer estimate Extension Service facilities farm labor program farm labor supply Farm Security Administration farm workers farmers Federal Food Administration foreign workers funds furnish going Government growers handle harvest HERRELL housing interstate and foreign interstate workers intrastate JOHNSON of Oklahoma labor camps labor supply centers LAMBERTSON LUDLOW Major WALKER MAYCOCK medical service ment Mexican workers Mexico months MOTT move O'NEAL October 31 Office of Labor operation organization percent period personnel placement potatoes problem production Public Law 45 RABAUT recruitment season Secretary WICKARD set-up statement subsistence sugar beets TABER tion TOWNSEND transportation United wages War Manpower Commission WIGGLESWORTH WILSON women Women's Land Army year-round
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Page 184 - Any employee of the Immigration and Naturalization Service authorized so to do under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization with the approval of the Attorney General...
Page 181 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 183 - In order to facilitate the employment by agricultural employers in the United States of native-born residents of North America, South America, and Central America, and the islands adjacent thereto, desiring to perform agricultural labor in the United States...
Page 40 - It is understood that, with reference to the departure from Mexico of Mexican workers, who are not farm laborers, there shall govern in understandings reached by agencies of the respective Governments the same fundamental principles which have been applied here to the departure of farm labor. It is understood that the employers will co-operate with such other agencies of the Government of the United States in carrying this understanding into effect whose authority under the laws of the United States...
Page 181 - JOINT RESOLUTION Making an appropriation to assist in providing a supply and distribution of farm labor for the calendar year [1943] 1944.
Page 39 - ... (2) On the basis of prior authorization from the Mexican Government salaries lower than those established in the previous clause may be paid those emigrants admitted into the United States as members of the family of the worker under contract and who, when they are in the field, are able also to become agricultural laborers but who, by their condition of age or sex cannot carry out the average amount of ordinary work. b. The worker shall be exclusively employed as an agricultural laborer for...
Page 90 - The Worker shall be entitled to freedom from discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color or national origin, in accordance with the provisions of Executive Order No. 8802 of the President of the United States, dated June 25, 1941.
Page 107 - No part of the funds herein appropriated, or heretofore appropriated or made available to any department or agency of the Government for the recruiting, transportation, or placement of agricultural workers, shall be used directly or indirectly to fix, regulate, or impose minimum wages or housing standards, to regulate hours of work, or to impose or enforce collective-bargaining requirements or union membership, with respect to any agricultural labor, except with respect to workers imported into the...
Page 128 - ... necessary to and regularly engaged in an agricultural occupation or endeavor essential to the war effort, shall be deferred from training and service in the land and naval forces...
Page 40 - It is understood that the employers will cooperate with such other agencies of the Government of the United States in carrying this understanding into effect whose authority under the laws of the United States are such as to contribute to the effectuation of the understanding. Either Government shall have the right to renounce this understanding, giving appropriate notification to the other Government 90 days in advance.