Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1908 — CANAL LABORERS PLENTIFUL [ARTICLE]

CANAL LABORERS PLENTIFUL

Government to Close All but Two of Its Employment Agencies. Washington, Pec. 29—Officials of the isthmian canal commission are now certain that they have solved the labor problem and; acting on*that judgment, have instructed Leroy E. Parks, its labor agent ■in Europe, to close his office in Paris and return to the United States. Those in New York and the Bermudas will be the only agencies maintained by the government. More laborers are going to the zone than are leaving and every month Is adding to the population there.