Farm Labor Notes

Excerpts: Requests for the establishment of migratory labor camps, a program administered by the Farm Security Administration, have increased greatly in recent months. However, difficulties are faced in obtaining all needed materials for such camps. --- The Department of Agriculture has indicated that in 1941 there may exist, along with large surpluses of agricultural labor, serious dislocations of such labor of a local or seasonal nature. --- The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports that large numbers of skilled and reliable regular farm workers have been lost to industry and to the military forces in nearly every major agricultural area. As might be expected, the greatest shift of labor from rural to urban areas has occurred in areas surrounding industrial centers and military cantonments. Greatest decreases in supply appear in the dairy, poultry, vegetable, and canning sections of the East, North Central, Middle Atlantic, and New England States --- Farm Security Administration reports that migrants are passing by certain areas along the Atlantic Coast because of lack of adequate housing. Nearly everywhere the volume of the migratory movement appears to be diminishing. --- Oregon, Connecticut, and Illinois have actively recruited high school students to meet harvest peaks in truck crops.