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Show Farm Labor Program Set For County Duchesne County Farm Labor committee met with D. O. Jor-gensen, Jor-gensen, State Farm Labor assistant, assist-ant, at the County Agent's office recently to discuss with farmers and farmer organizations the critical farm labor problem. The county organization consists con-sists of Marden Broadbent, county coun-ty agent, as chairman with appointed ap-pointed members as follows: L. J. Gilbert, W. A. Day and Floyd Case as County Commissioners; W. J. Bond, school district; Ed. Conklin, Farm Bureau; Horace Allred, cattle associations; Louie Galloway, Moon Lake; James Lloyd, Dry Gulch Irrigation; Lyman Ly-man Burdick, Farmer's Irrigation; Irriga-tion; D. E. Nyberg, Farnsworth Irrigation; Van Winterton, Cattle Growers. Program Set Forth By the Committee (1) This committee has the primary pri-mary responsibility of advising with and helping Extension Service Ser-vice develop an effective farm labor program for the county; (2) To determine farm labor needs for the county as a whole and for communities within the county. The following information informa-tion is needed from our farmers, (a) the kind of workers they need, (b) The number of workers needed, (c) When they are needed, need-ed, (d) Duration of needs, for what specific jobs they are needed. need-ed. This data is taken on employment employ-ment cards and filed in the county agent's office for farmers farm-ers help and reference. (3) Take the initiative in establishing es-tablishing standard farm wage rate. The committee recommended recommend-ed the following rates for farmers farm-ers this season. Casual farm labors, lab-ors, adults, 60c per hour without with-out meal provided; 30-40c per hour for youth according to their age and farming experience. (4) The county committee will assist in helping solve wage disputes dis-putes and other misunderstanding misunderstand-ing between farmers and furnished furn-ished farm workers. (5) There is little, or no, possibility of obtaining ob-taining outside farm labor or Mexican nationals to help harvest, har-vest, therefore the (5) committee strongly urges the exchange of work and machines among neighbors. (6) We encourage the cooperation of those hiring labor for other purposes than farming to cooperate with farmers in getting get-ting information and using the same wage scales for hiring and in allowing as many men as possible pos-sible to work on the farms in order or-der to meet County Agriculture production goals. (7) Labor problems prob-lems are local and must be solved solv-ed by local people in the various communities of the county. Outside Out-side labor cannot be obtained to aid in our crop production program, pro-gram, thereby, (8) Competition for labor is growing day by day and anything any individual or group of individuals can do to assist the farmers in labor will be welcomed by the committee and all Duchesne county farmers farm-ers and stockmen, said Marden Broadbent, county agent. |