Show minimum labor rates are fixed for beet workers minimum rates to be paid laborers in the production cultivation 9 or harvesting the 1940 sugar beet crop by producers of morgan county under the sug sugar oa r act were announced thursday by C R richards secretary of the county A C A the act requires as one of the conditions of payments that all persons employed in the production cultivation or harvesting of sugar beets beet s be paid in full tor for such work at rates not less than those deter mined to be fair by the secretary of agriculture as follows blocking and thinning 8 3 per acre or 40 cents per hour first hoeing 2 per acre or 35 cents per hour second and subsequent hoe ings or we feedings edings 1 per acre or 35 cents per hour topping and loading on a time basis 45 cents per hour on a piecework basis 6 or below tons per acre per ton 7 per ton 8 9 10 11 12 97 13 14 15 16 17 18 or above when topping and loading are performed by different persons 30 percent of the above rate Is to be paid for loading it if because of unusual circumstances Is it essential to employ libor labor on other than a piece rate basis for operation for which only piece rates are specified or lf it the use of special methods of planting cultivation or harvesting reduce the amount of labor required as compared with the common method in use in the area for the operations for which rates are specified the minimum wa wage e rate is to be a agreed need upon between the producer and the laborer in both cases the amount must be approved by the state AAA committee as being equivalent to the piece rate specified fied tor for such work in the determination if the producer and the laborer agree in writing that the laborer is to receive the sum of the pa payments specified for blocking and thinning and the first and second hoeing regardless of the number of goeings actually required the payment of this amount will be deemed to meet the requirements of fair and reasonable wages for blocking thinning hoeing and weeding when wage rates higher than the foregoing are agreed upon between growers and laborers the payment of such rates is required |