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Attitudes Of Selected College Professors And College Students In Utah Toward Labor Unions, Dwain Dee Stephenson
Attitudes Of Selected College Professors And College Students In Utah Toward Labor Unions, Dwain Dee Stephenson
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The attitudes of selected university professors and students in Utah toward labor unions were obtained through the medium of a questionnaire.
Most students and professors favored anti-trust laws for unions, were against the abolishment of the right-to-work law, and were evenly divided in their feelings concerning the settlement of strikes by compulsory arbitration.
A majority of students and professors were against an increase in overtime pay and a shorter work week. Students favored and professors opposed a raise in the minimum wage.
Professors and students anticipated growth in union membership as a percentage of the labor force.
Except for professors …
A Comparison Of The Utah Cattle Slaughter Market With The California Cattle Carcass Market, M. Lloyd Davies
A Comparison Of The Utah Cattle Slaughter Market With The California Cattle Carcass Market, M. Lloyd Davies
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Reliable price data for fat cattle in Utah are becoming difficult to obtain because fewer and fewer slaughter cattle go through market channels where live cattle prices are reported.
The objectives of this study were to determine how correlated Utah fat cattle prices are with the California dressed meat market for cattle and formulate an equation or equations enabling reliable price predictions to be made for the Utah slaughter cattle market.
Utah choice and good steer prices (both direct and auction) were compared to the San Francisco wholesale meat market prices. Utah choice steer, good steer and choice heifer prices …
An Economic Analysis Of The Predator Problem In The Range-Sheep Industry In Utah, David Murray Curle
An Economic Analysis Of The Predator Problem In The Range-Sheep Industry In Utah, David Murray Curle
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The economic effects, to the Utah range-sheep operation and to the economy of the state of Utah, of predation upon sheep were studied by use of a personal interview survey. This survey sampled 20 percent of the range-sheep operations in Utah.
The sheep and lamb death loss from predation was found to be 61.0 sheep and lambs per 1,000 head of ewes in fiscal 1969. The survey. also showed that 71.36 percent of the losses were lambs and 28.64 percent were ewes.
The total economic loss to Utah sheep ranchers was calculated to be 1,062,502 dollars as a result of …