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Meeting of Farm Labor Committee
The adjourned meeting of the Joint
Farm Labor Committee was called to
order at 2:3O p. M, with Chairman
John Chittenden in the chair
The chair then gave a report on
the meeting of the Grain Growers As
ISOLATION held in Kansas City which
was addressed by Dir. Frizel, State
Labor Administrator He advised
that the pay this year should be made
sufficient for the men to live comfort
ably; that the farmer avail himself of
the help offered by the Working Boys
Reserve, the businss men and such
sources. That he can furnish 90, 900
Chinese to help harvest the crop this
year if they can be used. That the
y. S. Department of Justic will assist
in the maintaining of law and order.
/ 1t was then moved and carried that
the QUESTIONABLE be considered ques-
ton by question:
Question l. Shall harvest hands
be paid by the hour or by the day?
Following the discussion on this sub
iect to the following conditions: Pay
to start when the header starts, ex-
, cept when the field is mile or more
away in which case the men will be
paid for the times taken to go to the
field but not for the time taken in re-
turning.
The number of hours that shall con-
stitute a days work was left to the
farmers except that in no case shall
| less than ten hours be considered a
days work. Longer hours may be
worked by agreement between the
| farmer and the hands
QUESTION ?. What rate of pay per
hour for: (a) Inexperienced help. In
Inexperienced help is to be paid wage
agreed upon between the farmer and
/ the hand. When the hand proves
! himself 10 be equal to an experienced
| hand he shall receive the same rate of
pay. OBJ Experienced. The pay of
| experienced help was fixed unani-
mously at fifty cents per hour. &c and
| ID The number of men in a header
barge was left to the farmer to de
termine according to the weight of
his crop. (e) 1t was also determined
! that there should be no difference in
the rate OF pay for home and outside
/ hands where the skill of each IS the
same.
Question 3. The Secretary and
Mr. W. *. Boys were then instructed
to prepare a questionable on farm Ia
Dor and mail to every farmer in Ellis
County in an effort to ascertain the
number of harvest hands and also
the number of regular hands that
would be needed in Ellis County this
iyear.
Question Rate of pay for regu-
ar hands by month? Regular help
by the month was divided into three
classes: Experienced teamsters and
machine men $4,000 and board; Less
experienced or general farm hands,
$500 and board; boys according to
Eage and experience, $25 to $50 and
board. Men boarding themselves $40
Iper month extra.
Question s. Working Boys Re-
serve: (a) Yes they can be used. (b)
The wages not to be fixed until the
boy had worked long enough to show
what he can do
Question g. Women in the field
(a) They will work in their own fields
should absolute necessity for such
occur. (b) The sense of the meeting
was decidedly opposed to using fe.
male help in the fields other than the
, home field.
The motion was then made to adopt
the above findings as a whole and
was carried unanimously
The Chair then appointed G. r
> Weeks, W. A. Boys and Franz
Schoendaller as a Committee to hole
meetings over the County in an efforf
; to secure uniform adoption of tn,
action Of the Farm Labor Committee
The following places and date
were then made for these meetings:
, Monday afternoon 2:30 at Silve
, Lake Local, 5 miles west, 1 south anC
1 west of Ellis.
} Monday evening 1870 Rudolph Err