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 57 STAT.] MEXICO-MIGRATION OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS-APR. 26, 1943 "e. Workers domiciled in the migratory labor camps or at any other place of employment under this understanding shall be free to obtain articles for their personal consumption, or that of their families, wherever it is most convenient for them. "f. The Mexican workers will be furnished without cost to them with hygienic lodgings, adequate to the physical conditions of the region of a type used by a common laborer of the region and the medical and sanitary services enjoyed also without cost to them will be identical with those furnished to the other agri- cultural workers in the regions where they may lend their services. "g. Workers admitted under this understanding shall enjoy as regards occupational diseases and accidents the same guarantees enjoyed by other agricultural workers under United States legis- lation. "h. Groups of workers admitted under this understanding shall elect their own representatives to deal with the employer, but it is understood that all such representatives shall be working members of the group. "The Mexican Consuls, assisted by the Mexican Labor Inspec- tors, recognized as such by the employer will take all possible measures of protection in the interests of the Mexican workers in all questions affecting them, within their corresponding juris- dictions, and will have free access to the places of work of the Mexican workers. The employer will observe that the sub- employer grants all facilities to the Mexican Consuls and the Assistant Labor Inspectors of the Mexican Government for the compliance of all the clauses in this contract. "i. For such time as they are unemployed under a period equal to 75% of the period (exclusivew of Sundays) for which the workers have been contracted they shall receive a subsistence allowance at the rate of $3.00 per day. "For the remaining 25% of the period for which the workers have been contracted during which the workers may be unem- ployed when such unemployment is not due to their unwilling- ness to work they shall receive lodging and subsistence without cost to them. "Should the cost of living rise this will be a matter for reconsid- eration. "The master contracts for workers submitted to the Mexican Government shall contain definite provisions for computation of subsistence and payments under this understanding. "j. The term of the contract shall be made in accordance with the authorities of the respective countries. "k. At the expiration of the contract under this understanding, and if the same is not renewed, the authorities of the United

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