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Show UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS June 1969 Page 7 i . Womens Meetings Continue During what must be the most active year for the Utah Farm Bureau Women, meeting after meeting has been held, with hundreds and hundreds of women tak- NOT QUITE HALF ofthewomen attending the Cache County Womens' Workshop sat down for this picture. Topics included highway safety and the California grape boycott. ing part. Most recent was a five county womens workshop held May 26 In Richfield. The meeting held In the Johnston Hotel, concentrated on highway safety and teen-age- rs and the drug problem. Mrs. Fern King, Teasdale, AND NEWTON locals got together for dinner and business during February. Though we received it late, we're happy to publish it. If your local or county meeting is scheduled soon, be sure to send photos and story to the UFB News so we may feature it. SMITHFIELD Womens Committee member from District 6, hosted the meeting which Included women from Sanpete, Sevier, Piute, Garfield and Wayne counties. Speakers at the workshop Included LeGrand Jarman, UFB Organization Director; Neil Sum-slo- n, Branch manager for the Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company and Country Mutual Life; Barbara Whitbeck, UFB Womens Chair- and Lt. .Frank Grant, man; Richfield, District Three Comman der, Utah Highway Patrol. Bob Hall, owner and operator of Hall Rexall Drug, Richfield, was the luncheon speaker. Mr. Hall spoke about the pressing drug and problem among teen-age- rs noted that it is not simply a big An city problem. alarming number of our youth throughout the state have been exposed to drugs, Mr. Hall said. showed her collection of dolls from many she and Colonel Nielsen were stationed while countries gathered in various global assignments. The workshop, held in April, was well received by the ladies. MRS. BEATRICE NIELSEN 2iiiiiiiiiiiiaiiaiiiiiiniijiiiiiaiiiiiiiiinaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiwiiiaiuuuaMUMiauiiiaiiwauaiiaiiiiiaiiaiiuiaMMHiinMii SERIOUSLY . I drive to force grape pickers to join a union and pay dues to an organization to which they do not wish to belong. A power drive for organized labor. Already similar pressure, forced unionization of a working force, is being attempted against packing house workers in some five southern states. The boycott is the initial step toward forced unionization of all farm workers. Why should housewives boycott grapes simply to support a drive for union power and union dues by a union they have rejected? By Ilarvey Grifin A debutante is said to be a ripe tomato surrounded by lettuce. We recently met a beautious gal who is so dumb she believes the English Channel is the one on TV on which you watch English movies. No matter how bad the movie at the drive-i- n theater, most of the patrons manage to love every minute of it A city youth and a country lad were walking down the street Coming toward them was a pro- duct fresh from a beauty parlor, haystack permanent, scarlet fingernails, drugstore complexion, gaudy lipstick and, of course, a mini-skiall on the high side of taste. Now what do you think of that? asked the city youth. Observing carefully, the farm lad said, Speaking as a farmer, I should say it must have been pretty poor soil to require that much rt top-dressin- and Otherwise g. Next month fresh California table grapes will be ready for the market, and the American housewife will be able to exercise her right to select what she wants to purchase for her family. Or will she? Last year, because of a grape boycott instigated by the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, backed by some church groups and the Students for Democratic Action, some stores bowed to pressure and did not offer grapes to their customers. The outright injustice of the boycott found little favor with the American public and it failed1 However another effort is to be made this year. Backed by $2 million support from the AFL-CIthe union has set itself up as the defender of the downtrodden grape pickers. The truth is the grape pickers do not want to join the union. There id no strike in the vineyards. The good workers make up to $1,9 to $20 per day; most of them own their own homes and where the wives help in the vineyards, make around $8,500 to $9,000 a year. These workers do not Want to join the union, as witness only a couple of hundred have joined out of some 8,000 in the Delano area. The boycott is not a campaign to raise wages, to show concern for migrant workers or to get more protective legislation for farm workers. What it Is is a O, Many of the womens activities started during these workshops are still underway, including a safety slogan contest and other projects designed life. Farmer-to-Farm- er Visits Hawaii Another problem may confront farmers regarding hired labor. Senator Harrison Williams and Rep. John Dent have introduced an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide a $2 minimum wage for all workers. Not only is this an increase of 40 cents per hour above prior federal standards, but exemptions, some pertaining to farm labor, have been largely eliminated. When Congress established a minimum wage above what the standard rate would be in the market, taxpayers pay the difference in relief for the fired workers. Any time put in above 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week would be time and a half. Another item in the bill would increase the age limit for children employed in hazardous farm work to 18 years. It would also restrict the employment of children on farms outside school hours. The tendency to set minimum wages too high has thrown countless teenagers out of summer jobs, or in the case of dropouts, out of employment. Thai there are older men, past the peak of their physical activity, who would greatly prefer to keep on working, even at a lower wage, just to keep busy. EDITOR'S NOTE: This column by Harvey Griffin, comes to us through the courtesy of Montana Agriculture, which is the official publication of the Montana Farm Bureau and is edited by Nine Farm Bureau tours and cruises to all parts of the world will be helping to win friends for America and American agriculture (D-N- J) (D-P- a) Mr. Griffin. Mr. Griffin, a pipe-smokin- half-centur- basis. in the next few months. The 1969 schedule of Farmer-to-Farm- er visits to Hawaii calls for tours departing August 6th and November 2nd each for a 10 day stay on the four main islands of the 50th state - - with visits to Hawaii farms and fellowship with Hawaii Farm Bureau members. Two identical Fall Foliage and Historic Shrine Tours through the Eastern United States and Canada leave on September 25th and October 2nd. Highllghrs will include Niagara Falls, historic Quebec, the maple syrup country of Vermont, Colonial Boston, New York , the Kentucky Blue Williamsburg, and birth Lincolns Grass country, and farmers along place. Farms the way will be visited by the touring Farm Bureau people. T he . perennial favorite - - the Farm Bureau's EXCLUSIVE cruise ship, SS BRASIL, will be at San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday, December 2nd. The sights include this El Morro, built in 1539. The activities are highlighted ancient fort by a barbecue with members of the Puerto Rico Farm Bureau. sponsored' by Farm Bureau, at- tend the opening session of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers in , Tokyo, meet with local farm organizations, and witness the distribution in the Orient of American-grow- n farm products. Everything is in readiness for the Exclusive Farm Bureau Cari- bbean Cruise of the Caribbean 21. Nine starting November be as of will visited call ports a prelude to the American Farm Bueau Federation Annual Meeting in Washington, D. C. Plans for 1970 Include a 2 month Around the world Tour departing on January 2nd. This trip will Southtake the fascinating ern Hemisphere route - - through New Caledonia. New Tahiti, Zealand, Autstrallla, Maurltuls, Kenya, Tanzania, Rhodesia, Mozambique. South Africa, Brazil, Chile ana Panama. tour of South America is set for October 3rd departure - - visiting agricultural operations and organizations in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Panama. Farmer-to-Farm- er On October 16th a group leaves the West Coast for a Circle Air Tour of the Pacific - - an increasingly important area of world The swing agricultural trade. Tahthe includes Pacific through New Zealand, Australia, Singiti, apore. Thailand, Hong Kong, and Japan. Nations Agriculture, official organ of the American Farm Bureau Federation sponsors an important tour and trade mission to the Orient starting October Uth. The tour will visit numerous farms, see the results of the Japanese Farm Trainee Program g veteran of considerable years behinda. typewriter, has been involved in agricultural activities y and for more than a is an eminently qualified observer. 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