Show PERMANENT FAR FARM im LABOR PROBLEM question which should be given serious consideration by farmer ONE SOLUTION IS OFFERED good homes fair wages and son privileges will attract desirable delcable Del rable men who understand farm work Pre prepared parea by the tha united states department of agriculture washington the supply of permanent farm labor note the word permanent will not be assured in many sections of the country and on some farms at least in every section of the country unless more attractive living conditions are offered aby th families of hired hands bands on farag war conditions cause a farm labor problem that can be solved only by emergency methods throughout the nation communities will solve the their r war problems of farm labor shortage by utilizing as temporary farm help town volunteers and high school boys by diverting to agricultural activity man power that would not and could not be so used except in a real emergency but the town men of farm experience peri ence who go to the fields this spring 9 and summer and fall will be actuated solely by patriotism rather than the financial return of the undertaking they are going back to town as soon Is as their war work on farms Is finished and while their services are vastly valuable volu able from a war standpoint they are not helping at all to solve the problem of permanent farm help but the man who expects to work on a farm steadily year in and year out Is profoundly interested in the question of housing living conditions and net remuneration mune pune ration for farm work as compared with town work provide good homes the attitude of thousands of married men who are skilled farm workers who have left the country to find town employment but who will return to farm work permanently provided farm living conditions are comparable in ordinary comforts to those in town Is er expressed pressed in this letter recently published in n a texas paper 1 I am sending in my view of the farm labor problem I 1 have been trying to got get a job on the farm the last month still trying to do so I 1 can find plenty of jobs for ill single man but the farmers so far as I 1 have bound found have no tenant houses louses or sf if they have one it would not make a good stable most alost of the farmers that I 1 have found will not permit a farm hand to raise a garden or chickens or hogs bogs or own a cow or horse harse and the prevalent pay Is insufficient to support a family under such conditions I 1 believe it if the farmers would build comfortable houses and either pay better wages or give more privileges it would be the city man calling for help instead of the farmers there are many evidences of an increasing desire on the part of men with families now living in towns and cities but with experience as skilled farm workers to go back to the country they left the farm because they believed they could make more money get more satisfaction out of life give more pleasures and opportunities to their families in town many have been disappointed they are willing to return to the farm at a smaller cash wage than they receive in town if they have a fairly good house and are allowed to have a garden and raise a few pigs and perhaps have the use of a cow labor problem remains what about it you are a farmer and you are looking for permanent farm help not only emergency help to produce and harvest war crops but a man or men to live on your farm and worl work the year round are your tenant houses the kind of places a man would like for ills his family to call home are they the kind you would like to live in oh you say the other man la Is looking for a job and I 1 am nat not I 1 own the farm farill lie he wants to work on the farm do you expect the hired hand to have as rood good a house as the owner it if he like this house he can leave it well tile the trouble Is that is just what lie will do and you will continue to have a farm labor problem on your hands 0 course no one expects the hired hand to have as good a house as the farmer fanner but he does want a comfortable for table place for his family to live in and failure to find that on the farms Is one of the reasons for the steadily decreasing supply of permanent farm help in recent years it may not please the farmer to face the fact nevertheless the truth Is that the skilled farm hand Is in a 11 position to be quite as independent about the proposition its as the farmer himself I 1 when the farmer says take take tills 10 house I 1 us e or leave it the really first class claps man knos lie he can get a good job elsewhere and he leaves so it may be provable pro fable for some som e farmers not till all of course t to 0 t think 1 link that over bearing in 11 mind in that letter of the texas man to the affect eliat I 1 it if the farmers will offer their per permanent vian help good house CA fair wages anal some e privileges 11 ll it hlll ill be the city c calling for help instead v le ab be farmer |