Show increasing scarcity of labor in a country rich in food products with th fine climatic conditions it is a pity piti that millions of dollars of food products shall be lost because we have not ot the tabor labor to save and market them increasing labor scarcity this fall in the western states has been a great menace to prosperous sections and helps keep up the high cost of living by depriving the big city markets of needed supplies from colorado to oregon and fr from om utah to montana and all over C california al forma ore ere thousands of tons tona of I 1 fruit to t and potatoes not picked for lack of labor unpacked for lack of hoses and people to pack the fruit the lack of labor and boxes and transportation transport aion ann is causing losses running into the millions at a time when every pound of farm produce is 13 needed by the world as it was never needed before the government must assure better supplies of farm labor and better distribution of the same or it will be impossible for farmers to harvest increased acreage which they will put out proper labor supply and proper distribution of the same is ig one pro blem that the government has not yet vet taken up seriously and it should have attention irom from the farm arc j standpoint |