Larmon, deputv state commissioner of
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O. W. LiABMON
agriculture, in charge of the state's
labor bureau, and it is expected that
they will be followed by many more
before the supply in New York city Is
exhausted
The farmers round about Fonda,
N. Y., were on hand to offer the men
jobs as soon as they arrived A part
of the courthouse was set aside to ac
commodate the influx of farmers and
job hunters, and the local grangers
made all the other arrangements for
the bringing together of the men who
want work and the #men who w^nt
workers
Two or three of those who started
are married men, and they were per
mitted to take their wives with them,
as there is opportunity for women to
get work on the farm as house work
ers
"I have every reason to believe that
this plan will succeed," said Larmon.
"Most of these men are honest men
very eager for work. The vagrants
and the perennial out-of-works don't
care to go out into the country to work
on a farm Of course, I am not ego
tistical enough to think that this is go
ing immediately to remedy the whole
unemployment question in New York,
but even if we only send up state 4,000
or 5,000 men it will help.
