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Force Up
The 1972 hired farm work force,
which totaled 2.8 million persons,
climbed 7 percent from a year
earlier, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture reports. This marks
the second year in a row that the
farm work force has increased,
following 3 years of steady
decline.
The Department based its
figures on a study of the hired
farm work force prepared by
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in 1972
USDA’s Economic Research
Service in cooperation with the
Bureau of the Census. It included
persons 14 years of age and older
who did some farm work for cash
during 1972.
The increase was caused in
part, USDA said, by 1972’s
overall high level of production,
plus increases in farm exports
and farm prices. These
developments caused farmers to
hire the extra labor they needed,
and to stabilize their work force
in preparation for 1973.
“Casual” workers-tbose doing
less than 25 days of farmwprk
numbered 1.1 million a decline of
61,000 from 1971. This is in con
trast to 1971’s gain of 100,000
‘casuals,” The “noncasuals”-
those doing 25 days or more of
farmwork-numbered 1.7 million
in 1972,320,000 more than in 1971,
and accounted for most of the
farm labor force increase.
The typical farmworker in 1972
was 23, white, male, and did not
live on a farm. He put in 88 days
of farmwork, for which he earned
an average of $1,160 in cash
wages, or $13.20 a day. Only 24
percent listed farm wagework as
their main occupation. About 7
percent were domestic migrant
workers, an increase of 7 per
cent from 1971 and a reversal of
the decline since 1965.
A copy of “The Hired Farm
Working Force of 1972,” AER 239,
is available free on postcard
(please include zipcode) or
telephone (447-7255) request from
the Office of Communication,
U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
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in Europe and in Africa, at
the eastern end ~of the Strait
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names are Rock of Gibraltar
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Lancaster Farming Saturday, April 28,1973—23
By closing 274 military bases,
the Nixon Administration showed
that it is completely serious about
including defense spending in its
program of budget cuts.
One of the things I have been
calling for in the area of spending
cutbacks is for a 5 percent
reduction in military ex
penditures by trimming out
waste. Obsolete bases and
facilities have been high on my
list of defense fat which needs to
be eliminated.
The reason why closing ob
solete bases is vital to cutting
military spending is because it
means that there will be sub
stantial personnel reductions.
This is not to say that we should
gloat over people losing their
jobs, but the simple fact is that
the greatest portion of the $BO
billion defense budget is made up
of salaries. Until you are willing
to eliminate jobs, both military
and civilian, you cannot expect to
achieve meaningful cuts in
military budgets.
Pennsylvania did pretty well in
the present reduction program.
Overall, our State stands to gain
rather than lose jobs since the
Philadelphia Navy Yard will be
picking up many of the functions
now assigned to the Boston Navy
Yard. Other defense installations
in Pennsylvania also are taking
over functions now carried out in
other areas.
But because we made out well
this time does not mean that the
next cutback will not affect us.
And, it seems to me that it is
reasonable to expect more such
reductions in the future.
What should be our reaction if
the reductions do begin to hit
closer to home? The question
really is one of whether people
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215-273-3182 717-933-8336
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Annville, Pa. 17003 Klingerstown, Pa. 17941
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IRWIN W. MARTIN ROY STONER & SON
1648 W. Mam St. Route 2
Ephrata, Pa. 17522 Lititz, Pa. 17543
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are serious when they say that
they want to see less money go to
the so-called military-industrial
complex.
It is somewhat disturbing to see
and hear the same politicians,
who several months ago were
calling the military-industrial
complex a threat to our Nation,
now crying the blues because
defense installations in' their
State or District are being shut
down. You cannot have it both
ways. Either you are for cutting
back on our national ex
penditures for defense and are
willing to live with, the con
sequences of such cuts, or you are
not willing to suffer the con
sequences and therefore must be
satisfied with the defense
program as is, waste and all.
Some people, of course, are
concerned that' closing down
these bases will reduce our
defense muscle. I am convinced
it will not. The 5 percent figure I
have talked about is not
something lightly taken. It is a
figure that represents a
reasonable reduction in defense
spending that will not affect our
defense strength.
The President has tried to
make it clear that he does not
intend to jeopardize the military
muscle which has given us the
strength to negotiate successfully
with our ad ersaries in the world.
But by closing the 274 obsolete
installations, he has also shown
that he does not intend to let
unneeded military costs go un
touched in his attempts to control
the budget. The President
deserves our support in trying to
achieve both goals without
sacrificing either.