Show PRISONER OF WAR LABOR SHOWS GOOD PROFIT prisoner of war labor utilized under private agricultural contracts last fall to harvest liar cst utah crops returned a pro profit t to the government ern ment major general william E D shedd commanding general of the ninth service command declared recently at fort douglas utah during the 1944 harvest season war prisoners performed man days of labor in peach and pear orchards and sugar beet and aad fields within the state the profit derived from PW labor performed in utah represents only a parti portion on of paid the treasury department by private contractors for work performed in western states agriculture al fields and orchards orchard s bv bix war ar prisoners I 1 over a six months period harvesting of crops throughout th ohp P T nth th service Com Onn imand was assisted materially wh wherever brever critical labor shortages existed by performance for mance of such labor prisoners are employed on only y in areas where free civilian labor is unavailable general shedd emphasized phai pha sized zed labor by prisoners at utah military installations employed in in essential work in shops laundries and on the grounds amounted to an additional dit ional man days the profit realized by the government through employment of war prisoners in utah represents the difference between the 80 cents per day each working prisoner received in canteen coupons and the per cash wage employers would have had to pay civilian workers for identical tasks in order to make such labor avail alae able in manpower man power shortage areas without subsidizing the private con tractor the ifie war department follows the policy of requiring private contractors to pay to the treasury department the same wage rate per unit of work performed by war prisoners that would have been pa paid d to tree free civilian labor for the same sa me amount of work |