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Show Beet Growers Warned Of Child Labor None Under 14 Permitted To Work In Fields; 1940 Wage Scales Given proximately 2000 field workers .111 begin Friday the annual task of harvesting Franklin county surer su-rer beets in the field with an ad-dltional ad-dltional 350 men ready to start the slicing process at the factory oi; Sunday, October 13. With the harvest season here, county agriculture officials an nounced the 194U wage scale for top ring and loading beets and warned growers of the child labor provis ions of the sugar beet laws. The wages to be paid for topping top-ping and loading on a time 'basis is 45 cents per hour while on a piecework basis the rates are as follows: Six tons per acre or below, (1 30; seven tons, $1.23; eight tons. J1.16- nine tons, $1.10; ten tons, jl 05, eleven tons, $1.01; twelve tons, 97 cents; 13 tons, 94 cents; 14 tons, 91 cents; 15 tens, 89 cents; j 16 tons 87 cents; 17 tons, S6 cents; I 18 tons orlOver per acre, 85 cents. When topping and loading are ' performed by different pesons, 3D per cent of the above rates shall be paid for; loading. The rate for all frattional tonnages between 6 and 18 tons rounded to the nearest tenth of a ton shall be in proportion propor-tion within each interval. In regards to the child labor laws officials pointed out that excepting ex-cepting a child of a grower who owns at least 40 per cent of the crop, no child under 14 years of age may be employed or permitted permit-ted to work in the production of the sugar beet crop, and no child between the azca of 14 ajid . 1C years may be employed or permit ted to work for a longer period than (eight hours in any one day. As a precaution against the employment em-ployment of children in violation of the foregoing provision, growers should require any laborer who might be under the required age to furnish proof of his age. Such proof should be in the form of an aee certificate or a baptismal certificate cer-tificate showing the date of birth, or if none of Buch proofB are available avail-able other satisfactory documentary documen-tary evidence showing the age of I the laborer, such as a passport, an Insurance policy, or a Bible record may be, accepted1 It is urged that laborers cooperate cooper-ate with growers in an effort to I Prevent any violation of the child ' libr provisions of the sugar pro-1 ram. Further information on the s6ar beet laws may be secured at we county agent's office. ft |