FARM LABOUR SHORTAGE
AMERICANS REFUSE WORK. DOLE PAYMENTS STOPPED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright). NEW YORK, July 20. To meet a labour shortage in the lowa, wheat fields with the harvest season reaching its height, relief headquarters in 16 counties have stopped dole payments to force unemployed to accept the work at the prevailing pay, two dollars a day with' “keep.” Planters are complaining bitterly that most of the normal labour supply is now- on relief. The majority refuse to accept work at comparable rates of Pay-
State Governors throughout the wheat belt arc preparing to lake drastic action to force the unemployed to accept the work unless the Federal Government intervenes.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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113FARM LABOUR SHORTAGE Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 July 1935, Page 5
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