B—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 26,1969
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DISENGAGE THAT
Farm Wage
Rates Rise
W/ 0 In Year
Farm wage rates have risen
10 percent in the last 12 months,
USDA reported on July 10. The
U.S. average cash rate per hour
without board or room was
$1.58 on July 1. A year ago it
was $1.45.
This understates the average
hourly earnings because no data
are reported by USDA foi the
higher earnings of piece late
workers.
The average hourly rate in
California was $1 80 on July 1—
up fiom $169 a year earlier.
The rates in Alaska ($2 30) and
Washington ($187) were high
er than in California while those
in the three Southern New Eng
land states were equally high.
In the majority of the con
tinental states the average wage
exceeded $1 50 pei hour on July
1. For the nation as a whole the
index of farm wages was over
ten times higher than during
the 1910-1914 period.
During the June survey week,
there were 1,581,000 hired woik
ers on US. farms —eight per
cent below a year earlier These
workers had an average work
week of 34 5 hours four per
cent longer than a year earlier.
In June, 1968, there were 1,-
709,400 hued workers on U S
farms. The 1969 total is only
57 percent of the 1957-59 aver
age.
There were 3,675,000 farm
operators and unpaid family
members at work on farms last
month four percent less than
a year earlier.
Total June farm employment
was 5,256,000 down five per
cent in a year.
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ent grounds in the immigration
laws for deporting or expelling
aliens from the United States.
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