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Mexico Will Send 7,000Workers Here MonthlyWASHINGTON - (UP.) - War Man Power Chieftain Paul V. McNutt Saturday announced conclusion of an agreement with Mexico whereby that country’s surplus man power will be made available to United States industries.McNutt said 6,000 Mexicans will be brought into this country for immediate employment as tracklaborers on southwesten and Pacific coast railroads which have been suffering severe man powershortages, and that other will follow.The new agreement, covering unskilled workers, in effect supplements a pact reached last summer which made Mexican workers available for agricult rat work in the United States. The department of agriculture revealed yesterday that plans have been completed to bring in an additional 35,600 to50.000 farm workers, at a rate of7.000 a month.■mm
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Hammond Times
East Chicago, Indiana, US
Mon, May 03, 1943
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