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Show kjvj CHILDREN I THE BERRY PATCHES i For the benefit of fruitgrowers in Utah, the state industrial commission has applied to the federal department of labor for a ruling on the employment employ-ment of children, particularly as to application ap-plication of the neV child labor law to employment of children in strawberry picking Inhibition of employment of children in canning factories has led some strawberry growers to conclude that the law will also apply to strawberry, picking, in which boys and girls have heretofore been extensively used. On this account, many owners of strawberry straw-berry beds have proposed to plow them up as being unprofitable if the labor of children in picking the berries cannot can-not be utilized. While the child labor law makes an exception in favor of the employment of "bona fide boys" and girls' canning clubs, recognized by the agricultural department of the several states and of the United States." fear is expressed that the impression now held by strawberry growers, with the conse quent cieierxninuiiuri in piuw up uieir beds, may cause a serious shortage in that fruit this year for canning purposes. pur-poses. Some growers who had intended to plow up their strawberry beds have been Induced to hold off until advices shall have been received from Washington Wash-ington by the state industrial commission. |