Smyrna times., 1946-04-11
FARM LABOR
ORGANIZATION
Kent County Farmers File
Certificate of Incorporation
to Form Labor Cooperative
FIRST MEETINNG APR. II

ing the war has taught many
farmers the value of solving their
labor problems together, in coop
erative way, as they have done by
taking part in the Emergency
Farm Labor Program of the Della
ware Agricultural Extension Ser
vice. To continue the assistance
that has been given by this Emer-
gency program, a group of enter
prising farmers in Kent County
have filed a Certificate of Incorp-
grafton to form a farm labor coop
erative organization which could
operate a community farm labor
program on its own initiative. The
objects and purposes of this Asso-
citation are to associate its men,
bers together for their mutual
benefit and to engage in any activ-
ity involving or relating to the col
lective production, harvesting,
handling, storing and marketing of
truck crops and other farm crops
including securing of labor for its
members and the general commun-
ity in which it operates including
the financing thereof.
First Meeting April 18th
The first meeting will be held on
Friday April IL, at 8 p. M, in the
Caesar Rodney High School in
Wyoming. The meeting will be
open to the public and all farmers
and professors of food are urged
to attend and to learn about the
way in which the Association will
operate. At present, the Farm
Labor Organizing is just starting,
and consists only of the incorpor-
ators, who are William H. Richter,
Edward Kelly, Ralph, w. Wine,
Wilbur H. Jump, and G. Fred
Filter. The incorporators have sent
a letter to many users of farm
labor, asking them to become
member of the Association, and
asking them to attend the organ
Hation meeting. Also the incorp-
orators would like the public to
know that any person connected
with agricultural products IS well
come to attend the meeting and
become q member.
To Discuss Constitution
The incorporators have prepared
a suggested constitution and by
laws and at the first meeting this
constitution will be discussed and
all persons who want to become
members will be given chance to
act on it. After the constitution
has been adopted the members will
name and elect Board OF Dlrec-
tors from among themselves by a
majority vote of the members.
Farm Labor Cooperatives have
been organized in adjoining States,
and farmers in general have been
given much assistance by them.
Farm labor will probably continue
to be very scarce in the years
ahead, and careful planning on the
part of the farmers will be neces-
sary to provide an adequate sup
ply. Past experience in this Coun-
ty has shown that seasonal farm
labor must be given relatively full
time employment or the workers
will leave for other areas where
work seems more plentiful and
earnings appear to be greater Co.
operative planning will make pos
sible the movement of labor from
one member to another, Wnen
slack periods occur, thus inducing
the workers to remain in the local.
ity between crops.
Housing Facilities
Since housing is also an induce
ment to workers to come into the
County cooperative planning should
be put to use to provide housing
facilities which would usually be
beyond the ability of any one
farmer to provide. Also, exper-
ience has shown that large organ
izations, who can afford to recruit
and transport migrant workers
from the South and offer them
steady employment, are apt to
have an adequate supply OF labor.
The small operator must rely on
the overflow which is often made
quite. Cooperative planning could
be a means of recruiting and
transporting migrant workers for
all members of the Association.
These are some of the benefits
which members of the Association
may get. Other benefits and the
means by which they can be de-