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 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. sugar crop by farmers who apply for payments under the Sugar Act of so stat. s90. 1937, as amended, the minimum wage rate of 37 cents per hour pro- 7U.S.0.I1100et sc U. o ided for in the second clause of the Work Contract will remain un- changed, but that the United States Department of Agriculture will undertake, in accordance with the condition of the Work Contract, to provide that the treatment given to the Mexican workers with respect to wages shall in no way be inferior to that enjoyed by United States farm labor. 11. It is agreed that if, at the termination of the Work Contract, the worker is not returned to Mexico for reasons beyond his control, com- mencing on the 15th day he will be paid by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture the sum of 50 cents U. S. currency for each day up to the date of his embarkation for Mexico, and that this sum must be considered as being in addition to that which he will receive in the form of subsistence and other benefits provided for in the contracts. "It is understood that this note, together with the reply in accept- ance which Your Excellency may be so good as to make thereto, shall constitute an Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Mexican States on the supplementary clauses cited above." In due reply, I am pleased to inform Your Excellency that, recog- nizing the friendly desire on the part of representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture to co-ordinate their points of view with those of the Mexican Interdepartmental Committee, my Govern- ment expresses its agreement with the terms of the above-inserted note, considering those terms as supplementary to the Agreement of April s7 Stat. 11a2. 26, 1943, with the understanding that if, in practice, differences of in- terpretation should be encountered as to whether the above-mentioned Agreement of 1943 or the above-cited additional clauses should be ap- plied, my Government hopes that the text which is more favorable to the worker will be applied. I take pleasure in renewing to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. J T BODET. JAIME TOBRES BODET. His Excellency WALTER THUasTON Ambassador of the United States of America Mexico, D. F. 3744

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