Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 64, Number 42, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 February 1922 — Page 8

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CHILD AND ALIEN LABOR IN BEET! American Farm Worker Not . Pre tected by Sugar Tariff, LOW WAGES ARE BEING PAIL

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had never dreamed that growing duuj:hter 'could proe such a problem. When Josephine's mother lied ut her birth. Alan was relieved in the thought that his child's future would be secure In sister's cart' Tilda, the elder sister, had rained him !n his orphanage and Tilda would b competent to raise his daughter, o thought Alan; but he had not counted up'u the dlflicult temperament of hla child Josephine. Josephine's mother' had grown up in the vicinity, and when Tilda approved of their comradeship, and approved also, of the first Josephine's domestic ability and gentle manners, Atari coiucided heartily with her views, a ii d his early marriage followed. Josephine, the daughter, grown to early .voting womanhood, possessed neither her mother's domestic tastes nor amenability. Josephine was adventurous, she had view, and she waa apt to be Interrogative. Alan, traveling afar upon business Interests which carried him. grew 'vaguely troubled. Tilda's complaint, upon his home coming, wa that of a, new friendship In which her

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"that the affair has been going on longer than I suspected. Probably this Intimacy Is responsible for many of Josie's wild views. An Infatuation I call lt.M -A man?" her brother Impatiently questioned. "My, nor Tilda replied, "I almost wish It were a man, he would probably knock some of the nonsense out of the girl's head; Josie's divinity Is a woman, a mysterious sort of person who has rented the Well's bungalow for the summer. She looks like a motiou picture actress, and spends her time playing the harp, selecting to notice no person In town save .Tosie. Why Josie, I have been unable to determine. "Dlsagrecabler again the father Interrupted with a question. "No," Tilda honestly replied, "on the contrary Josie appears unusually sweet and reasonable. The trouble Is. that one wild notion persists. She will study the harp. Alan, I wish you would see that woman yourself and apeak to her concerning her mistaken lufluence over Josephine. She would probably listen to a man, but when I called

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By H. E. MILES, Chairman of the Fair Tariff League, Tbe Americiin fanner and the American worker are always the chief oMet$ tf soüf-ifufle. put forward by the hih tariff politicians, when an upward revision of the tariff Is in order. That hi rthrays neon true and is now trn in Consr'Ss 5h connection with efforts to en,i( I ilrje high rates in the l"iffiT s.-v;'l''i Permanent Tariff Hill. T?t farnoT as well ns the worker. im.vevi'r. rump to realize that any lnM; hi :uay derive from an exrblt:.:; nir'T. Wied in the luiine of pro-!-:i.i' 4in an art wl.ioh he pro'1.1- v. tiiore olT t by the tribute uhu-ii he nrrwf pay on artlwhich hn nss:rr!4 hut des not r.-ie. . Sni:;ir Is a eonip'e "f how th'

It seems," Tilda told her brother, j wi.rks'..m win, rffeirme to the farm

er, i .mer; aD r.et suifar inausiry jn-nspered undr protective turiff of ne .:! ii p und on Culan raw sugar. The Kmergemy TarliT Act increased I his 150 per cent. One of the arguments alv:in-e1 fr tlJs tremendous Increas va. t hut ihe leet str.'sir industry needed thin protection in order to protect t!ie American farm laborer engaged In r:iiinjf sugar beets. Unfortunately f r this argument

ihrre if very litt! A!:sri"an farm labor in the beet sugur imlusiry as the rec-J ords nf the Pepririment of Labor and' " the rh'pHrtmnJit of Agriculture show. Sugar beets hih raiel and harvested t almost entirely by the cheapest grade LfT ol;aino''!e -f foreigi labor, contracted V r

for by the sugar manufacturers and turned over to the beet growers. Field bosses in the beer sugar amotions have indeed frequently told Investigators that American labor is not wanted because "a Yankee cau't stund the hard work." Child Labor in Majority Not only Is the larger part of the beet sugar labor this low priced foreign labor which .we are warned again?! but even a larger part are the children of thee foreign families. In Colorado alone, one of the most Ininortant beet suirar states, the Na-

"You called," Interposed the brother. ticDal chlld Lal)0r Committee found Tilda nodded. j c.OOO children between the ages of six "I thought It was my duty. Joie and fifteen years, practically all of positively refused to obey when I. or- alien parents, regularly engaged In the dered her not to po lo the woman's cultivation of sitgnr beet.

From rhe ti:ie the beets are In the ground until they are delivered at the ft dory the bürdest kind of manual labor is required. And much of this Is done by arnail children. These children Fpend long, hard hours on their hands and knees weeding and thinning the beets. Then when the beets are full grown they spend more long, hard bouts lifting the heavy roots to their knees and with a wide sweep ut a dangerously l.arp knife cut off the tops. The Federal Children's liureau made

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house again. For let rue assure you flint the people here think yerj little of surli u stranger. When I called she was making a picture of herself draped before her harp In a greeksort of ;i. rol and wheu 1 reproved her regarding the notion she had put In Josephine's head, the was as sweetly and stubbornly Insistent as the hl!d.M "Josephine really should be glren

her opportunity, she said. So I came '

away. There Is no use trying to forbid your daughter this companionship Alan, but perhaps the young woman tuny respeot your wishes. Alan hesitated, then decided that It would be wise to have some knowledge of Ms daughter's new found friend. Josephine was making one of her daily visits nt the bungalow, It would appear quite the natural thing to call to see her home. So Alau went. Josephine greeted him iu the gardeo, she was proud of her handsome father and led him forth Jubilantly. "Juiiet. she called, "Janet come here." At sight of a white-clad figure In the doorway. Alan's disapproving frown vanished, while Josephine stared In surprise from one to the other. For tier father's quick cry had been "Janey, my dear! while her friend inn In a little rush toward him. "You will not be displeased, will you Alan." she wa mtylng, "because I stole a march on you and hurried on to meet Josie. I wanted to win your daughter's heart you see, before she should know me under the unfortunate name of stepmother. You were far away Alan, It really seemed the most acceptable way of spending my time. And 1 have discovered a secret for you. one that will not keep another moment. Your daughter has freat musical ability, Alan. I am very certain of this, and you must give her n opportunity." "nut," murmured Josephine, Hl do not understand." "Of course you don't," penitently lanet's arms enfolded hr.

"It means dear, that your father and 1 met some time ago, quite accMenally, wheu he called concerning a

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ne-nf'h wen as; ; much as fourteen years old. t.ns!.deraMy over a half ranged from nir. to thirteen. From iVJ to 8" ier rent, rrordiiig to the proceK in whi.-li !he hild uns t-nt'di:-. worked nine hour or nure a day. t'r. m uiie-su Fif fi tr one-third, aain vsrjlhg l h e itn m, wrkH eleven hiii or more a day. T!.e sverae wrkine djy fur all pr(,r was usually hetwn nine :nd ten hiurs. ; Evil Effect on Childrtn Postural deforutitie rid malpositions were frund in TU per pdt of flie children examined by the liureau's physicians. Another., serious effect is the interference with their -education. Araoz.g flß( children from niu to sixteen years of ajce fr wlioin school recordf were olitaiued over AO per cent were fruni on t seven years be'ow the normal grade for their aee. The general study f the National Child Labor Committee iu Colorado aud Michigan indica; that these conditions he-Id generally throughout the beet. raising sections. A farmer who owns, or leases laud contracts, with the sugar company to furnish a certain number of acres n which beets are to be grown. The company ajrees to furnish tbe hand labfr. The company then contracts with a laborer, usually a Russian. Jap or Mexican, to do tbe work on a definite number of acres. The number of acres a laborer iudtracts to care for Is based largely on the number f children he has. The labor employed In the Colorado beet fields Is practk-ally all foreign la-

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rother. I.addie. had been almost rrin- i bor. Mexican, Japans and Russian.

!ed1y a recklessly driven automobile, : The Mexicans and Japanese, however, tnd the suit was brought In order to do not work their, children as much as

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nable us to procure the best posIble surgical skill "And while the suit was pending," Ion added, "and the little brother ay in the hospital, this girl whom I learned to love, took the harp which Jiad been her pastime and with ' it, ;ave recitals here and there, so that

dren often begin work as early as four or five years of age. In Michigan conditions are very similar, excepting that the nationalities of the workers are more diversified and there are fewer RuskIuus and Mexicans and no Japanese. They are

made up largely pf Elungarlatis. Slavs

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