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Farm Labor Organization Plans 



U. S. Department of Agriculture 



UNDER the government plan for the 

 organization of farm labor, the 

 details of which were announced by 

 the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 recently, provision is made for nation- 

 wide co-operation in the solution of the 

 farm help problem. The work of or- 

 ganization already has been started in 

 about forty states, and it is expected 

 that eventually every community in the 

 United States will be reached. It is 

 believed that the resultant utilization of 

 emergency labor will begin to have an 

 appreciable effect on the farm lahor 

 situation before the season has far ad- 

 vanced. Meanwhile, the immediate and 

 acute problem of supplying labor for 

 the harvests, now beginning in the 

 Southwest, is being handled, so far as 

 the United States government's services 

 are concerned, through the existing em- 

 ployment service of the U. S. Depart- 

 ment of Labor, which will continue to 

 handle such problems of mass mobiliza- 

 tion under the new plan as it has in the 

 past. 



Federal and state co-operation is 

 based on close co-operation on the part 

 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 and the U. S. Department of Labor with 

 state committees on national defense 

 charged with labor matters, with the 

 state agricultural colleges, with the 

 county agents, and with county and 

 local or township labor committees or 

 representatives to be established in 

 every locality. The Department of 

 Agriculture will represent the federal 

 authorities in determining farm labor 

 needs and in assisting in organizing all 

 available farm labor in the rural dis- 

 tricts. The U. S. Department of Labor 

 will devote its attention to organizing 

 labor in urban communities and indus- 

 trial regions, and will co-operate with 

 the farm labor forces where necessary 

 by obtaining extra labor from the pop- 

 ulous centers. 



The plan provides for strictly local 

 handling of all labor problems that can 

 be adjusted locally. The fundamental 

 unit of the organization is the "com- 

 munity man" who, with the assistance 

 of such committees as he may appoint, 

 canvasses his own neighborhood, finds 

 out what farmers need help, and what 

 men are available for supplying the 

 local need, and effects such adjustments 

 as can be made locally. If, after all 

 local adjustments have been made, 

 there remains either a deficit or a sur- 

 plus of labor, he reports to the "county 

 man," whose business it is to effect 

 adjustments between the several com- 

 munities in his county. The county 

 man, in turn, reports any deficit or sur- 

 plus to the "state man," who canvasses 

 the situation for the state as a whole 

 and reports to the Department of Agri- 

 culture, which, in close co-operation 

 with the Department of Labor, is 

 charged with the distribution of mobile 

 labor for the country as a whole. 



Thus each unit in the system acts as 

 a clearing house for its own territory, 

 reporting to the units higher up only 

 when it needs help or has help to offer. 

 The plan provides that supplemental 



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