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Show Sugar Division Sets Rate For Workers In Beet Areas Of Utah The Sugar Division of the Detriment De-triment of Agriculture has announced an-nounced a rate to bs paid laborers in the production, cultivation, or i.arvesUng of the 1939 sugar beet crop ty producers in the sugar beet area who apply for payments under toe Sugar Act. The Sugar Act requires, among other conditions of payments to growers, that all persons employed on a farm in the production, culti-aticn, culti-aticn, or harvesting cf sugar beets be paid in full by growers for all such work at rates not less than those determined by the Secretary of Agriculture to be fair and reasonable. rea-sonable. For the purposes of this determination the sugar beet producing pro-ducing area was divided into nine districts within each of which one scale of 'minimum wage applies. For the United States as a whole the general level of the minimum wage rates announced is about 4 percent below that of 1938, practically prac-tically the same as that of the minimum min-imum rates determined for 1937 after enactment cf the Sugar Act, and approximately five per cent above the general level of sugar fceet wages prevailing prior to passage pas-sage of this legislation. This determination of minimum wages was made after investigations, investiga-tions, and following a series of public hearings held between January Jan-uary 9 and January 30 in Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Billings, Montana; Seattle, Washington; Wash-ington; Salt Lake City, Utah; Denver, Den-ver, Colorado; and Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Ne-braska, In Utah, Idaho and Oregon which is district eight, blocking and thinning thin-ning has been placed at $8 per acre. The first hoeing, $2 per acre and the second and all following hceings $1 iper acre. For topping and loading the following fol-lowing rate has been determined: six tons per acre or below, $1.30; 12 tons per acre, 97c; 15 tons per acre, 89c and 19 tons per acre, 85c. When topping and loading are performed by .different persons, 30 i(er cent of the foregoing rates shall be paid for loading. |