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Show F1RM REVOLUTION Vq Drop in Farm Labor Is Forecast lcreasing use of chemicals on , encan farms is expected to dis- :e about 3V4 million farm work-i work-i J by 1970, a senate labor-man-O'ment relations subcommittee in a recent report. onducted by Dr. Francis J. iss for the subcommittee, the .iy reported "we are at the jCsshold of a new era that prom- i plentiful food and fiber, but is also fraught with the dangers of economic and social disruption against which we have to prepare our nation no less than against the dangers of armed aggression." Weiss' report, says chemical and mechanical labor-saving devices will reduce farm workers from the' 1950 level of 9.32U.000 to 7,785,000 a 17 per cent drop by 1960 and another an-other 2 million by 1970. |