SHORTAGE OF LABOUR
UNEMPLOYED PREFER THE DOLE lOWA FARMERS IN A DIFFICULTY DESMOINES (lowu), July 20. (Received July 21, at 8 p.m.) , To meet a labour shortage in the wheat fields with the harvest season reaching its height, relief headquarters at 18 counties stopped the dole payments to force the unemployed to accept work at the prevailing pay of two dollars a day with " keep." Planters are complaining bitterly that most of die normal labour supply is now on relief and that the majority refuse to accept work at comparable rates. The State Governors throughout the wheat belt are preparing to take drastic action to force the unemployed to accept work unless the Federal Government intervenes.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 10
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116SHORTAGE OF LABOUR Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 10
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