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...connecting them with the Cultural Revolution) or loyalty to Chairman Mao Tse-tung (both idolize him) than on matters of self-interest. The conservatives want to get on with school and closer to prestige jobs, while the hotheaded radicals enjoy the disruptions that keep them from being reassigned to farmwork...
...lucky, the African will simply be arrested, taken to court and charged $3 for his "crime." But if he does not know the ropes, he will be held for the labor bureaus, where as an alternative to prosecution he gets a chance to sign a "voluntary" farmwork contract...
Nationwide regulations now provide a maximum ten-day farmwork "holiday" for children 12 to 14, with special provisions for subsequent half-school, half-work days. Pay for farm-handing during this so-called holiday is set at 4d (8?) to 8d an hour for boys, slightly less for girls. Slightly higher scales prevail for older boys already working on the land as Young Farmers and in summer hostels...
...enough to problems of labor and management. Pointed out as a prime example is an acute shortage of farm labor. In spite of the fact that Britain has 4,000,000 more acres under cultivation than in peacetime, many farm workers have been drafted, and women's farmwork brigades and mobile labor groups do not make up the shortage. Worst of all, critics point out, the Army plans to draft more farm laborers after this year's harvest...
...Author was born and bred on a Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic...