Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1913-04-23
FARM LABOR THEPROBLEM
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plan for securing labor is two-fold
first to enable the laborers in our towns
and cities of Vermont to get in touch
with local employers, 1T is proposed to
allow laborers to register at this bu-
reau stating their experience. wages
they desire, etc. Then it is proposed
to issue circulars revised from time to
time putting registered employers and
laborers in touch with each other.
The second plan to enlarge the labor
supply is to try to attrac. labor from
outside the state. The most promising
source of supply is the newly arrived
immigrants who come to this country
in great numbers every year. large
percentage of them having been en-
gagged in farm labor in their home
countries.
During the past month Commissioner
Brigham has been in correspondence
with the bureau of immigration and
with a number of societies which are
engaged in the work of getting posi-
lions for immigrants. To employers
who are in need of farm labor and who
wish to employ immigration laborers
application blanks will be furnished so
that they may be forwarded to the
proper immigrant officials and officers
of various societies who will do their
best to supply the demand from this
state.
Mr.. Brigham says ''We must real
ize thatzin pursuing this policy we are
in competition with other states who
are engaged in the same work and that
the greater amount of money which
| they have appropriated for this pur-
pose and which enables them to have a
representative at the immigrant sta
tons, gives them an advantage in Sc
lecting men of the most desirable type.
Since we must take men that are sent
! by the various organizations and Socie'
| ties we must not expect too much.
! Again not as much should be expected
of these newly arrived immigrants.
who are strangers to our people and
our ways of doing, as is expected from
our native labor Our people should
study the habits of the immigrants
and should take pains 60 make condi
tons as pleasant for them as possible.
1t will make for the success of this new
undertaking if the farmers who live ir
the same neighborhoods will combine
and try to get immigrants of the same
nationality so that they may have the
opportunity to associate with people OF
their own kind.
cit is said that nearly all of the i'm
migrants of the most desirable type ar
irving in New York know in advance
just where they are going. Friends o.
relatives have settled in some parts O.
this country. have prospered, and have
sent back home for them. Our prob
lem then, is, at first, to show thes'
people that there is an opportunity il
Vermont to establish colonies of then
if possible and after that these colonie
will increase automatically. If we cal
induce the right type of immigrants t
come to Vermont there is an opportun
ity for those with thrifty habits to &C
quire land after few years of service
as farm laborers, which will be a goo
thing for the state in enabling our farm
ers to increase their production
through larger supply of labor. an
will also lead to the occupation and cul
tivation of land which is not now util
lied to the fullest extent"
All people who are in need of farr
help are requested to write to E. S
Brigham, commissioner of agriculture
ST. Adams, Vt, stating fully thei
needs.