GENERAL FAR:M PROGRAM 623 



We will say there are two men who aie brothers. One is a hired 

 man and the other is a sharecropper. Do 30U know of any reason why 

 the work the sharecropper puts in the prodnction of that crop should 

 not be taken into account ? 



Mr. Davis. Xo: I think in connection with the modernization which 

 you stated, and with which I would agree, that there should be a 

 clearer definition of hired labor. I think when you get a situation 

 like we have in the Midwest where my home is, there you have tenants 

 who furnish all the machinery and seed and just rent the hmd. The 

 family labor is not hired labor. I think where you have a sharecrop- 

 per that puts in largely just his own time and everything is furnished 

 that is pretty much hired labor but he is paid in kind in proportion 

 to what is grown, that his share is really his wage. 



Mr, Pace. What he gets for it becomes his wage ? 



Mr. Davis. That is right. 



Mr. Pace. Therefore, his labor should be included. 



^Ir. Davis. It seems to me that would be true. 



Mr. Pace. Thank you very much, Mr. Davis. You are always help- 

 ful to the committee. 



I would like to state that tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, Mr. Allan 

 Kline, the representative of the Farm Bureau, will be here for ques- 

 tioning. 



The committee will stand adjourned. 



(Wliereupon. at 12 noon, the committee was adjourned, to recon- 

 vene at 10 a. m., the following day, Wednesday, May 11, 1949.) 



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