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W Jamaicans to Aid in CuttingAsparagus CropiI EDWARDSVILLE, April 24. —I (Special) — To meet the Increasingly difficult labor emergency for asparagus growers of the God-*. I frey area. .*10 Jamaican worker?Ji have been detailed there by the I War Food Administration, Farm Adviser T. W. May announced today.They are due to arrive at Godfrey Wednesday, and will go to work for four of the largest grower* in the area, Joseph A Wegener, Henry Bachman, Henry Koeller, and Otto Bott and son*.Wegener has turned over for their use a vacant house he formerly occupied on his farm, and the United States army has provided the group with needed equipment. They will bring with them their own cooking staff of two men.Arrangement* were made with the WFA under supervision of Harold E. West, emergency farm labor assistant to Farm Adviser May, through the emergency farm labor office at the University of IllinoisIn making the announcement May pointed out the men actually are British subject* They have been carefully screened Wherever d I they have gone, May pointed out. it j they have been well-behaved and ! good worker*.Last year more than loon were j assigned to farm work in Illinois, j largely in the north and central i portions.While they are here, when as-11 j peragus cutting lags or they are « j kept from it by other ctrrum- j | stances, they will perform other I i kinds of farm work.When the asparagus season is finished here, they will move on to northern and central Illinois for the pea-harveat season,
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Alton Evening Telegraph
Alton, Illinois, US
Tue, Apr 24, 1945
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