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Show UTAH FARM BUREAU NEWS Page 6 March 1970 ON THE FARM LABOR SCENE Co. Fair Display by Jack Angell Kits Available FUNNY THING HAPPENED on To fill a long-fe- need, lt American Farm Bureau's the Infor- mation Division has designed a in Action" display kit that can readily be used by counties for booths or other Member-Pow- way to er Bolts hold end and side panels together on this sample fair booth. Construction is of 2 x 4's and 1 plywood. 4-in- ch California Farm Bureau: exhibits in county fairs. The accompanying photographs do not show fully the visual materials that are intended for the display, but they may be examined when the artwork is completed. The artwork is based on the policy development flow chart" and the Scope of Farm Bureau designed for the "This is Farm Bureau" booklet recently developed for use by counties and states. For several years, the 1. A x 64 was unable to furnish Franzla with experienced pruning crews in the fall of view makes sides appear to be angled out, but booth Wide-angl-e is a ten-fo- square. Sketches represent graphics available. ot or banner 10" x use over the enter chart. two-col- or shwolng the eau. 4. A two-col- 36" x 48" chart Scope of Farm Bur36 or showing the organized County Farm Bureaus in the U.S. If the American Farm Bureau - receives enough firm orders for the display kit, they expect to produce them for not more than $16.00 per set. The photos also show construction of a fair booth. This booth is made of three panels, each ten feet wide, by eight feet high. Construction is of two by fours, braced by one by sixes. Sides are constructed in simple box shape but the back has the end two by fours turned on their sides so they will bolt through the end two by fours of the side panels. Wall covering is of quarter inch plywood in four by eight sheets. Eight are required and a two by four foot sheet is left over, which can be painted for a county sign at the front of the booth. A table and chairs may be added to the display on which local items of Interest can be used to personalize the booth. Two men can handle construction and assembly of this type of booth, which can be disassembled and stored from year to year. Simple construction permits the three panels to be handled by two men. Lights attached to the top of the display would provide at- tention-gettin- g illumination. inch plywood in 4 x 8 foot sheets is represented in this model by light card stock. White paint applied with a roller provides a background for display of anything the county desires. One-quart- er FROM FARMING, RECEIPTS FROM FARM 1968 MARKETING Mousy Billion Dollars received from mIo of about ISO form product!. GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS TO FARMERS Paymoati to farmers under form pro promo. Not price loppart loons ore Included wH cosh receipts above. NONMONEY INCOME Includes heeie consumption of form products and Imputed rental value of form dwoUInps. REALIZED GROSS INCOME FROM FARMING Income from farming available for all purposes form operation, family living and Investment. AH cosh spent to operate the form badness, plus PRODUCTION EXPENSES Items. Includes depreciation of equipment and other capicertain net-cas- h tal Items rather than currant purchases of those Items. REALIZED NET INCOME USDAs standard net Income llgure. The word "realised" Indicates that the figure has net boon adjusted for changes in Inventories. Represents return to operator for his lob or and mnnngmont, the labor of his family and Ms Invested capital. NET CHANGE IN INVENTORIES Difference this year from last la quantities of each crop and livestock product held on farms, valued at average prices Acelved by farmers during the year just ended. TOTAL NET INCOME This figure is a component of national Income figures of the Department of Commerce. It Is published In the national Income reports of that Department as net Income of farm proprietors. 3 fSflu PERSONAL INCOME OF FARM POPULATION, 1968 PERSONAL INCOME FROM FARM SOURCES: TOTAL NET INCOME FROM FARMING OF FARM RESIDENT c . rr- CBi a ID 0 fliHfifc,80t& '(b rffi an m 48fA $UB' , lliffijl that workers as well as wineries unhappy with UFWOC: by a study group of the President's Commission on Church in Town and Country (headed by Rev. Russell Helgesen of the American Lutheran Church) that, after DIGiorglo properties signed with UFWOC, "...production of the workers went down... workers' Income dropped (and) many union workers went to non-unifarms in order to make more money." Rev. Cletus Healy, the investigative Jesuit priest reports that after DIGiorglo properties were sold (without a succession UFWOC contract) to S.A. Camp UFWOC was badly shaken when on rths none of the 350 of whom had been working under the prior union contract at DIGiorglo agreed to come out for "strike Invoked by UFWOC. YOU MIGHT think it pretty strange if food markets refused to sell any beef because of a labor dispute out on the range..." read an ad placed lnSanFranclsco INCOME rrnliJC en workers-three-fou- CASH ijjj October are chart x 48" at least weekly visits to Franzla properties. Since the UFWOC program, Franzla has been visited only once by the border patrol 26th--wheight men were UFWOC supplied by picked up as wetbacks. (You've heard UFWOC charge that growers bring in wetbacks!) Only the several wineries ( no table grape growers) have signed with UFWOC. Among other indications the display. 2. A two-col- or 64" for 3. A had ultimately hired 304 workers. Problems were inexperience and a large turn-ov- er to keep the work force at a working level. the U.S. Immigration Service border patrol made last flow chart 34 for use as the center of two-col- 1968. By December 26, 1968 Franzla had built up and tralned--o- n its own an 18 man pruning crew. On January 2, 1969 UFWOC took the crew away and sent it to another winery. Franzla had to start from scratch with new people. the 1969 harvest Fran-zi- a needed a work force of 135. To maintain it Franzla found it Infor- mation Division has considered producing a chart which shows the counties across America with organized County Farm Bureaus. If this is done, it will be produced in two colors--on- e color showing county outlines and part of the wording, and the second color shading all of the organized counties and the rest of the wording. The total display kit would consist of the following four charts: organization of wine grape workers. Franzla Brothers Winery of Ripon, Cal. one of several wineries who hold contracts with Chavez--ha- s made some interesting disclosures to the U M S1.I Bay area newspapers last summer by food chains pointing up the folly of the grape boycott. Ad may have been prophetic. Last October, AFL-CI- O president George Meany Invoked a boycott against Iowa Beef Packers Inc. over company meat -- cutting innovations and adjusted wage rates. Now A&P Food Stores management in Western Iowa has rejected Iowa Beef shipment for stores in Dubuque and to Waterloo avoid trouble. -Close off of A&P market in Iowa could have serious affect on regional cattlemen who have enough cost -- price troubles already. Iowa Beef has become the fifth largest U.S. packer, and an Important sales point for cattlemen in four states. ...Timed with this, 0.1 14a Billion Dollars This is the total net Income of farm operators from farming minus the net Income received by farm operators who do net live on farms. FARM WAGES OF LABORERS LIVING ON FARMS Weges and ether labor Income for formwork paid by farm operators out of their .gross Income to workers living on farms. These wages are a production enpensa to farm operators, but a source of lacame to the farm population. CONTRIBUTIONS OF FARM RESIDENT OPERATORS AND WORKERS TO SOCIAL INSURANCE TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME OF FARM POPULATION FROM FARM SOURCES PERSONAL INCOME FROM NONFARM SOURCES: Includes wages, salaries, and ether labor Income of from residents from nenfmm jabs, rents and royalties, dividends, and Interest, net Income from neafarm business and professions, and transfer payments, such as unemployment component! on and social security. TOTAL PERSONAL INCOME OF FARM POPULATION FROM AU SOURCES 111 G.9 ffA 13.1 11J K cattleman religion writer Roy Larson cites expected deficit for 1969 $200,000. says 1969 receipts will run $500,000 less than 1968.. .Even so, Migrant Ministry Sun-Tim- OPERATORS Iowa and State Farm Bureau president J. Merrill Anderson recently scorched the Polk County, Iowa (Des Moines) Board of Supervisors for supporting the grape boycott. A slap in the face to Iowa agriculture," Anderson called it. DEFICIT of the National Council of churches noted at its recent Detroit general assembly. Chicago es Section of NCC lists grape, boycott as principal among its priority concern," associates its own pro- gram as consistent with UFWOC policy," and calls on the NCC General Board to, ...reallocate one million dollars of member donations to UFWOC in support of the grape boycott." As to where they stand: Recent clarification" on grape boycott by National Farmers Organization states illegal secondary boycotts takes can't be supported...then policy on the grape boycott! (No helping hands for fellow hands-o- ff agricultural producers who may be boycotted out of business illegally?) Whatever the NFO stance, Cesar Chavez seems to like it: The Goodfrult Grower (Washington State Fruit Commission quotes Chavez as telling a Granger Wash, audience that Farm Bureau is to blame for the boycott, and ...the NFO and the NFU that, endorse the grape boycott." NFO president Oren Lee Staley given VIP treatment in recent issue of Chavlz's El Malcrlado. Staley, Interviewed at NFO meeting in Stockton, pointedly expresses no opposition to grape boycott, suggests instead a union of growers, ...to raise the price of grapes and cover Increased costs of unionization. Those priority concerns" of NCC's Migrant Ministry Section in supporting grape boycott Include, ...working with NFU, NFO, and other like organizations." Another priority": ...right of collective bargaining for independent farm operators... and collective bargaining structures for marketing. On the other side: The National Grange re -- states its strong opposition to the boycott of grapes and other agricultural products. John W. Scott , master of the National Grange, says the organization supports legislation making interference with marketing of agricultural products illegal with aggrieved parties entitled to injunctive relief and treble damages. The market is the place to judge effectiveness of the boycott in 1969. A real disappointment to the boycotters. Citing USDA Federal -State Market News Service Re- ports, California Director of Agriculture Jerry Fielder notes a decline of only 7.7 percent in grape sales for 1969 with the boycott only one factor in the sensitive fresh frut market. 1969 wine ship- ments from California were up 10.2 percent over 1968 reflecting an improved market for growers who opted early to divert their grape crop to the wine crush... Annual Fruit Summary of California Crop and Livestock Reporting Sendee for 1969 shows table grape production up to 590,000 tons as com- pared to 470,000 last year with value of total production up to $28 million as compared to $26 million last year but with the average price per ton down slightly, in all, says California Table Grape Commission Chairman MlloCara-ta- n, the movement of California grapes follows the same general pattern as it has since 1963.. .In a report to Gov. Reagan, Allan Grant, President of the California Board of Agriculture (and of the California Farm Bureau) called the boycott a failure, but conceded it has been a Costly nuisance." Give the lady what she wants: When YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO housewife Frances Johnson found she couldn't buy grapes in some of the local stores she got her dander up, found an ally in Youngstown businessman Don Abraham, and together they formed the Committee to Buy California Grapes (Box p 3191, Boardman, Ohio 44512). The other side began to be heard At last reading all but one of the Youngstown chains and independents were stocking grapes With the bigger BOSTON chains still shut down to grapes, Massachusetts Farm Bureau Freedom to Market Committees staged high- at Ray DiVlncents roadside market in suly successful grape-i- n burban Waltham. Come see the pickets," read the flyers, they could be boycotting your farm product next." More grapelns are planned. .Herrick Roth, president of COLORADO Labor Council, AFL-CIhas petitioned the governing board of Colorado State University to ban table grapes from campus O, food facilities. |