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Show Group Visits Labor Camp President Russell S. Hanson, ivce-presidents Atty. Asa Bullen and L. T. Wallace, and Secretary M. R. Hovey of the Logan Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce visited the Japanese Jap-anese Labor camp at Amalga recently re-cently and were impressed with the number of things at the camp and especially the amount of work that has ben done with this labor. la-bor. District Supt. D. E. Smith of the Amalgamated Sugar Company who was present stated that many acres of sugar beetsin the county would have been lost if we had not had this Japanese labor. All the beet thinning has been done and now the beets are being cultivated cult-ivated and weeded. This week; a-bout a-bout 100 from this labor camp started work in the pea factory at Smithfield. Later on there will be the tomato crop and then the sugar beet harvest. There are 200 workers at the camp. They work about 10 hours every day except Sundays. There is a big list of farmers with applications app-lications for this labor as soon as they can get it. The Japanese labor does not work well with the haying program so they are not uesd for this work. The camp is opoated under . the direction of Laurel Jensen of the Labor Dept. of the farm food administration. ad-ministration. The workers have their own mayor and councilmen to whom they present their problems. prob-lems. The government provides the food at cost but it is prepared and served by Japanese cooks. I Good wholesome food is served. Rich and fish axe the main articles. ar-ticles. 100 pounds of rice are consumed con-sumed daily. Frozen fish, bar-acuda, bar-acuda, are used mostly. Long slabs of these baked with the rice make a very appetizing" dish. Some smaller fish similar to the tuna are eaten raw. The government provides a Large Lar-ge heating unit and in emergency can generate electricity for the camp. Ample showers are provided. provid-ed. The culinary water is obtained from the Amalga reservoir. The payroll amounts to about five tohusand dollars every two weeks. Manager Jensen stated that a good deal of this was spent in Logan every Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Many of the supplies, are purchased in Logan. Melvin Hillyard who represents the Extension Division of the Utah State Agricultural college, Miss Pauline Burgess head of the food purchases for the government labor camps, and two offices girls are stationed at the camp. Com plete records of all the laborers and the work done is kept by the office help. Definate wage schedules are maintained and each day the worker and the farmer know exactly ex-actly what has been earned. |