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Show FARM LABOR COMMITTEE PLANSACTION Survey to Determine Needed Workers Begins Immediately Cache county farm, civic and school leaders launched a coordin. ated drive Thusday to organize the local Japanese evacuee labor I needed to care for county crops next spring at a meeting of the county farm labor committee. A. W. Chambers of Smithfield, . committee chairman, appointed an executive committee to determine i the number of workers which will be needed and to locate residences resi-dences for Japanese workers after committee members reported that no mobile labor camps will be available this year for the county. W. A. Budge, district manager of tlie Amalgamated Sugar company, com-pany, was named charimam of the special committee. Assisting him will be Frank Wood of Amalga, president of the county beet growers' grow-ers' association; C. W. Clark, manager man-ager of , the California Packing corporation cor-poration plant at Smithfield; L. W. Marler, president of the Lew-iston-Cornish Tomato Growers' association; as-sociation; Joseph McKnight, manager man-ager of the Amalga-Benson Tomato Growers' association; Parley Hall of Wellsville, chairman of the county commission; Blaine Pitts, Logan branch manager of the U. S. Employment service; John Welch, county farm security administration ad-ministration supervisor, and County Agent R. L. Wrigley. Because of uncertainty as to the amount of sugar beets to be plant sd this year, the exact number of Japanese workers needed is diffi-, diffi-, cult to ascertain, Mr. Chambers said. However, the committee esti-1 mated that aboat 300 wiA needed and will take immediate steps toward obtaining them. A county-wide survey will be launched immediately to determine how many vacant houses in farm areas could be used by Japanese workers. The labor committee previously pre-viously sought a mobile camp for Japanese workers, but members reported Thursday that noly one such camp is expected to be allotted al-lotted to Utah this year and that it probably will go to Utah or Davis county. Logan city school district representatives repre-sentatives reported that the system sys-tem has 411 boys and 373 girls between be-tween the ages of 12 and 16 in the junior and senior hgih schools who might be organized for farm work. A report prepared by Superintendent Superin-tendent J. W. Kirkbride for county coun-ty schools classified, with some duplications, the number of students stud-ents between the ages of 12 and ( 18 who have indicated willingness to work in various types of farm labor. The experienced and inexperienced inex-perienced workers included 466 willing to thin beets, 433 to weed beets, 383 to top beets, 292 to pick strawberries, 269 for raspberries, 715 for pole beans, 268 for tomatoes toma-toes and 85 for onion topping. Another An-other 688 indicated in a survey that they will be working full time on their parents' farms. "We must use all of the men, women, boys and girls we can get in the county as well as Japanese and other outside workers to get the crops cared for," declared Mr. Chambers, "and we must know what labor force we can count on in advance." |