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Show plan To Use Ai Evacuees Is Made Public Tomatoes, Bee Is ei'V? Harvesting rfc:J , In Danger ' "f ' I BY LINCOLN THOMSON U-Tls I , M0,eSs we can find a new 0I1, G I labor reservoir of 40 to r.U per le tOK.'j cent more workers to take the Gre, T place of tll0se in t,le al'med fore's fore-'s 4 eg and those who have gone into ' J industry, it will be impossible ' the - J to harvest the tomato and beet ;ly t.'j crop; and Japanese evacuee labor I pv c' is the answer," said Selvov J. ' Boj'cr, chairman of the Utah nS to State Labor Committee today. Siojrn In a survey made a week II ago by II. C. McShane, secretary e - . of the 0. S. Employment Service, and Harry Cahill. executive sec-,ntle' sec-,ntle' rotary of the Utah Canners Asso- f ti;;. elation, it was disclosed that of Ian I' i'.'i acres of the 4,000 acre toma- w lo crop in Davis county ready for b: tanning, only 40 per cent of the Xs-'.;, ' hoar needed could be obtained ich -,o harvest the crop. Normally, je,? iv-1 1 acres would take about HO " ,o 100 workers to do the harvest. Se; Thf survey also disclosed that li- in the canning factories of Web- H-t Davls ancl Vox Elder eoun- . 'f :!es, a shortage of 403 women od 241 men exists. 1 fcj "The government." said Mr. ei 3 McShane, "is going to take 00 1 pr cent of the tomato crop, and jj-'T '.! that is not enough, as much J more as it needs. Unless we can J get the whole crop in cans, the ! :j civilian population is eoing to M "i;o without." 1 J In the beet industry , Mr Uoye. i 7 pointed out the fact that Japan- ' J ese labor so far has been respon I sible for much of the thinning j j and weeding up to the presen' j ;j time. : I i'We can just as well face the t facts," commented Mr. Boyer. "If i j it had not been for Japanese , labor much of the beet crop in . Utah and Idaho would have had , to be plowed up. We have a chance now to get our beets harvested har-vested by using relocation evac-- evac-- uee.s from ,Calirornia, WANT TO WOUK ."These people are industrious people who want to work, and if they can save out crops, they must be made to feel that they are wanted and must net be discriminated against. Suggestions that relocation evacuees be put in concentration camps and paid $30 a month is ridiculous. We are fighting this war to end slavery slav-ery and tyranny wherever it exists," ex-ists," Mr. Boyer pointed out. Mr. McShane showed how the his living conditions will be. The net effect should speed up recruitment re-cruitment for vital harvest work." ' EDITOK KFEAKS Larry Tajirl, managing editor of the Pacific Citizen, official publication of the Japanese American Amer-ican Citizens League, spoke for the Japanese evacuees today when he said: "Evacuees of Japanese ancestry ances-try have already made a singular singu-lar contribution toward the nation's na-tion's war effort as volunteer farm workers in the beet fields of the intermountain west. "In the acute labor shortage this spring m southern Idaho, they are credited with a large share in saving the $16,000,000 sugar beet crop. . . . "Wartime exigencies have deer de-er sod the evacuation of persons of Japanese race from the Pacific Pa-cific Coast and their relocation in inland areas. The very fanm workers who are so sorely needed need-ed today are indispensable to the - relocation centers where their labor la-bor is wanted for land subjugation subjuga-tion and cultivation so that these evacuee communities may become be-come self-sustaining. . . . They are to be paid prevailing wages and they are to have conditions equal to their status as cit!zr. or aliens. , "Any proposal to establuu concentration camps for the volunteer farm workers, such u that made by certain people Hi Salt Lake County and any proposal pro-posal for the regimentation of such labor under virtual sla' conditions Is a negation of thr-democracy thr-democracy for which the men i Utah and the mn of free Amor ica are fighting on the worl'J far-flung fronts. We condems any such proposals for the imposition im-position of fascistic conditions upon free-born American cri zens, be they of Japanese rat "Thousands of evacuee Japan ese will assist in the harvesting of the fall crops of the inland west. We are recommending that they do their part, as hundreds hun-dreds of them have already don this summer in the fields of Utah, Idaho and other westeiu states, in winning the battle of production. We hope that th contribution of these volunteer workers will be recognized as contribution toward the war effort of the United Nations. We hop that these Americans of Japanej extraction will be treated ai Americans." ploymefit Service. If labor is not available from ordinary sources sourc-es in the locality, the employ-J employ-J mcnt service will then forward the offer of employment to the war relocation authority for consideration con-sideration and submission to evacuees at assembly centers and relocation communities. When accepted ac-cepted by the evacuees, the offer of-fer becomes binding and subject to termination by either the farm operator or evacuee cn five days notice. The farm operator murt pay the. fare to and from the location loca-tion center,- must hnw proper housing and adequate food. When the job is terminated the evacuee must be returned to his center. There will be from 7,5:0 to 10,00.0 Japanese evacuees at the camp at Abraham in Millard i County by Sept. 20. These j evacuees will be available for i work by making application to I the field offices of the WRA. ! "The principal advantage of I the new procedure," said Dillon S. Myer, director of the War Relocation Authority, "is that it provides the evacuee with a definite defi-nite offer r! employment. Before Be-fore ace---" 1 'job and leaving leav-ing th- ! center, he know j 1 11 last, how much ' and what government had registered ell alien Japanese and Americans of Japnsse extraction, given . -them numbers, photographed them' ancl fingerprinted them. They are not allowed to go from one county to another without i permission from the Wer Relocation Relo-cation Authorities, and unless employment. em-ployment. is available in another t ssction, they cannot he taken away. "If we will treat these evacuees evac-uees like citizens and friendly , aliens and not like enemy slave.-, we wiil be able to get the work done. Many of them live in fear cf reprisals and c!co are afraid that they will be regimented in the fields. Should we do th?.. our work will not get done," said Mr. McShane. Under a new plan, worked out by the WRA and the U. S. Employment Service, each farm . operator needing additional help for harvest work will make a definite offer of employment by filling out the proper form. On the form, he will indicate the . type of work involved, its probable prob-able duration, the wages he will pay and housing facilities available avail-able for the workers. In each case, the farmer will submit the completed form to the nearest office of the U. S. Em- |