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Show WAGE SCHEDULE FOR SUGAR BEETS OUTLINED Government Announces Wage Scale For Workers Slightly Above Last Year's The minimum wage rates for early season sugar beet labor were announced this week by Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Wickard. The increase for blocking and thinning is about 18 per cent over 1941, while hoeing or weeding weed-ing cost increases run slightly higher. The increases for these various operations, as reported from Washington, range from fifty cents to $1.50 per acre for this district. dis-trict. The department of agriculture agricul-ture has promised an early announcement an-nouncement of harvesting rates. The minimum rates for district 8, including Utah, Idaho, and Oregon, Ore-gon, are as follows: Blocking and thinning, $9.50' an acre or 45 cents an hour, as compared with $8.00 an acre or 40 cents an hour last year; first hoeing, $2.50 an acre or 40 cents an hour, as compared with $2.00 an acre or 35 cents an hour last year; each subsequent hoeing or weeding, $1.50 an acre or 40 cents an hour, as compared with $1.00 an acre or 35 cents an hour in 1941. The department of agriculture said these wage increases were due chiefly to higher sugar prices, higher government payments, increases in-creases in general agricultural wages and increased costs of living. liv-ing. According to L: G. Sumsion, president of the Utah county beet growers' association, the increases are about in line with those expected ex-pected by beet growers. The announcement an-nouncement of the schedule at this time is expected to stimulate contracting con-tracting for sugar beet acreage in this district. These moderate increases in labor costs will be more than offset, in the opinion of Mr. Sumsion, by the better prices for beets under the 1942 contract, which is generally expected to bring $9 to $10 a ton for beets in this territory, based on present sugar prices. Farmers must conform con-form to this wage scale to qualify for government pay for beets, President Sumsion further pointed out. The citizen who has no appreciation appre-ciation of the beautiful in life hasn't been properly educated. |