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Show EDITORIAL Who is at fault? Within the next few weeks, schools will close and hundreds hund-reds of young people of working age, will be turned loose to roam the streets or think up something more exciting. The more aggressive ones will perhaps secure part-time jobs mowing lawns, caring for gardens, doing housework or tending tend-ing children. There will also be a few at drive-ins. However, How-ever, the majority will be without employment. Along with this situation comes announcement from Washington of intentions to increase the minimum wages for migratory farm workers in Utah from 75 cents to a dollar an hour. This increase will undoubtedly encourage more out-of-state workers to come in to work on farms and elsewhere. Do farmers in this area need migratory workers while so many students have leisure time on their hands all summer? sum-mer? Are the boys and girls in the area above working on farms or are they just not interested? The Youth Employment Council in summers past has put forth considerable effort to get work for students and to encourage prospective employers to make their wants known. But despite this, some migratory workers are employed to pick fruit, harvest' vegetables and do other farm work. Complaints have been heard also of inefficiency of local youths and of a don't-care or dbn't-have-to attitude taken toward jobs. This might be the case in a few instances, but the majority of boys and girls old enough, are anxious to work and are good workers. It might be worth investigating to determine how many jobs are open to local workers before arrangemnts are made to ship in foreign labor. Now is the time also for young folks to be looking around for summer jobs so that prospective employers will realize that our young people are anxious to work; that they are dependable' and willing to give a full day for full pay. Of course if there are some who do not want to work and who will not work, that is another problem, and a serious one which will eventually swell our welfare rolls. |