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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nRESTRICTED\n-443-\nWith a view to aiding the Puerto Rican emigrants,\n5. Emigration Prospects\nthe United States Employment Service made an agreement\nin 1949 with the insular Department of Labor giving\nThe capacity of Latin America to absorb Puerto\nthe Puerto Ricans a domestic status and thus priority\nRican immigrants and other related problems are treated\nfor certification for work over foreign workers. 1\nin comprehensive fashion by Clarence Senior. On the\nFederal aid to Puerto Ricans seeking work opportunities\nbasis of his survey of the economic, social, and legal\non the mainland was increased in scope by the extension\nconditions prevailing in the Latin American countries\nto Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands in. September 19502\nostensibly offering opportunities for mass settlement,\nof the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act of June 6,\nSenior concluded that Latin America held \"few hopes\" for\n1933, which created the United States Employment Service\nthe large-scale transplantation of Puerto Ricans, despite\nfor the purpose of promoting the establishment and main-\nthe expressed desire of most Latin American countries for\ntenance of a Nation-wide system of public employment\nsettlers. His principal findings were as follows:\noffices under a Federal-State cooperative program.\n1. Puerto Ricans lack the skills and capital needed\nThe act of 1933 applied to all the 48 States,\nby the countries that might be willing to receive them. 2\nHawaii, and Alaska, but not to Puerto Rico and the\nVirgin Islands. The Senate and House reports on bills\n2. Venezuela would appear to offer good settlement\nproposing to extend the Federal act to Puerto Rico and\npossibilities, provided the settlers possess skills and\nthe Virgin Islands pointed out that the former in par-\nhardihood and are furnished with various economic organ-\nticular continued to have a large force of unemployed\nizational aids. 3\n(estimated at 80,000) and many underemployed; that the\n\"aimless\" migration to the mainland and particularly to\n3. The absorptive possibilities of the Dominican\nthe large cities created undesirable complications; and\nRepublic were unreasonably magnified, certainly in\nthat the extension to the two dependencies of the clearance\nrelation to Puerto Rican needs, apart from political\nsystem in operation in the States would, first, result in\nand racial considerations (the Dominican Republic bars\nmore expeditious and better placement of workers locally,\nNegroes) 4\nand, secondly, contribute to a more economical and effective\nutilization of the labor force to fill labor shortages on\n4. Puerto Ricans possessing special technological\nthe mainland. 3 The 1950 amendment of the act of 1933 also\nskills or special training and experience in truck\neliminated the matching requirement.\nfarming could find employment in some of the countries.\n5\n1\nl\nPuerto Rico (report to the United Nations), 1949,\nSenior, pp. 93-94.\np. 7.\n2\nIbid. pp: 87-88, 95, 119.\n2\n3\nPublic Law 775, 81st Congress, approved Sept. 8, 1950.\nIbid., p. 88; see also P. 122.\n3\nSenate Report No. 2270, 81st Congress, 2d Session;\n4\nIbid. pp. 69-76. In 1940, 23.5 percent of the\nHouse Report No. 2995, 81st Congress, 2d Session; (both\npopulation of Puerto. Rico was reported to be nonwhite;\nAug. 1950), pp. 65, 88, 119.\nHouse Report No. 497, 79th Congress, 1st Session, p. 8.\n5 Ibid., 65, 88, 119.\nRESTRICTED\nRESTRICTED"
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