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Show War Board Plans To Secure Labor For 1942 Harvest Fear that the current war will remove a large number of farm laborers, la-borers, thus diminishing the available avail-able supply for the coming months of planting, caie, and harvest, was the leading subject of discussion at the last meeting of the Utah USDA war board, in Salt Lake City. Several plans were considered or the elimination of the labor problem this year, and four sources of farm labor were suggested, school, Japanese, industrial, and business labor. The first consideration, that of school labor, deals with the possible pos-sible dismissal of upper class students stu-dents at least during harvest season, sea-son, for a period of time which would enable growers to successfully successful-ly complete their work. Several tomato-growing counties of the state favor the plan of such a dismissal during the season or from mid-September mid-September until October 12. Use of Japanese labor is considered consid-ered because of many requests from processing plants and from farmers. Several state canneries have already contracted for such labor, and the plan suggested by the war board relates to the use of "safe" Japanese. Industrial labor la-bor concerns the issuance of furloughs fur-loughs to workers of industry during dur-ing the peak load in harvests. Unliklihood of this plan was advanced ad-vanced at the meeting, and two additional sources of labor were suggested: army labor and business men labor, in the possibility that businessmen would help on farms during the harvest, and that the army might grant furloughs to workers upon request of the board. A program which the board advanced ad-vanced and organized to handle was presented. The board appoint ed committees to give further study to the labor problem and make an immediate statement to the growers grow-ers before the planting season is too far advanced to change plans. |
