St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1920-07-24
The St. Tammany Farmer
THE NEED OF LABOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND
CONSTRUCTION WORK.


CONSTRUCTION WORK.
The policy country labor from cheap
the manufacturer from competition
eapy While there has been some dix
ference oppion tariff legislation there has
cheaper home products by the Introduction
believe there Is to-day any desire 10 s
competitor but conditions nave 81
enough labor in this country 10
build the railroad extensions Or " ~
which appropriations have been provided aA
contemplated for the future 1t no longer
competition with home labor but 1t Is question "
will be forced to exhobtan prices
work against his pest IN
physically and socially.
Scarcity construction work not dae
simply the country has immensely In
that trade swallowing the prooue "
enforced idleness of some OF because
employed in this field picked ua
enough knowledge in the various trades q carpentry anu
the great demand for that labor
that by the time demand Is ened for ther
employment they will have become su1clenty pfoncn "
labor has become thus
the construction will never know them
again. Somebody must do their WORK or they Will Sune ae
people This situation is alarming as to demand It"
mme remedy possible.
Huckay the of his experience in highway con-
sucon alteration of the mmgra-
restriction would provide some Of the labor
needed and that would also in some respects ns more
this than entering it under the present
boshevik tendencies and the
always seeking helh
through while the
asks for fair to be contented
that not through because the eondon uno
worked abroad given him the opportunity for schooling
might and law
immigration Division has as'
of this
his comments in
published Farmer of which Was
relative resolutions by the Association Oh
ommerce.
y Immigration arJI al South.
The question Of immigration supply closely
speaking Of must of necessity
the other To Louisiana and the other southern states
truly momentous ana serious one must 10
to the agricultural
industrial of this section and unless satisfactorily
solved viii do and retard future developments
prosperity
steady by en! .5a
' our ost m eo Tne
of in its
ship yads
the State thousands OF and believe that
this time been rather unmndful probably unn
shortage of labor needed to take
matured The unprecedented high wages
industrial plants elsewhere have
caused steady exodus from the ranks OF our skilled and
unsknel aborers Coupled with these facts have for sew
people the Southern the Northern
las been much depleted shortage
y felt the rural districts than the cities That section will
of the Worlds War.
The Northern reached their
Of public all complet
ed; their built. But in the South in the
part is yet to be
but vacant awaiting
get the needed of the proper kind to undertake
the South when the war will have come to an end
Lane of the Interior Depart
calling to
of the necessity providing OF the
sailors Of the that
use to
stone be fullest
Government this patriotic, mertorous and
enterprise State should take all
full returning soldiers and
settlers vacant and unproducive lands At
settlers from the dsbandng Of the Union which
did much to promote tnr rapid deveiopmen The souhs
the khaki in France If mindful of the benefit
by such settlement and should be
efforts to secure for the State as many soldier colonies
possible.