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Show SHORTAGE OF LABOR WORRIESSHEEPMEN Price for Shearing Not Yet Agreed, Woolgroivers' Official Says. Among the serious problems confronting con-fronting the wooLgrowers during the dipping season, which begins in a few days, is obtaining enough men to shear the sheep at a sufficiently reasonable price, in the opinion of C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utah State Woolgrower's association. A standard price of 12 y2 cents a head has been rcommended by the association, with board furnished to the ment If the shearer prefers to supply his own board, 14 cents is suggested as suitable payment. Last year, Mr. Stewart stated, the growers were the victims of an exhorbitantly high price for the shearing. No agreement agree-ment has yet been reached between the association members and the men of the sheepshearers' union, but the former hopes the matter will be adjusted ad-justed satisfactorily at the recommended recom-mended charge. A shortage of trained shearrs is also troubling the woolgrowers. A letter received Tuesday by Mr. Stewart from J. W. Imlay, a large grower of Hurricane, Utah, expresses a suggestion which, in the opinion of Mr. Stewart, reflects the spirit of the majority of the sheepmen. The letter stated that the only solution to the problem was to train more shearers. Six hundred men, Mr. Imlay believed, could shear all the sheep in Utah in sixty days. He recomended that each public shearing point train about five men, and that each private plant train at least one man. for the next three years, which would give the state approximately 2000 trained shearers, each of whom would be assured as-sured of wages ranging from $S to $16 or more a day. |
