Session #53 · 1893–95

Speech #530132341

In turn. of course. they knew they could count on us to come help them if it was time to get the hay in before the rainstorm came to destroy it. That has all changed. Now it is the migrant labor force that we must depend on because. of course. as has been mentioned many times. these are crops that must be harvested just at the right time and we never know when the right time is until a couple days before that time. So I am glad that we have this provision offered by the gentleman from California . Let me say a word about the migrant workers in my district. We have heard a lot about who can come. who does not come and who selects them. Let me say. it is a mutual admiration society. We have more migrant workers that want to come to my area than we can use because of the fine experience they have there. So not only do our people benefit because they have an opportunity to bring back those who have done well. but those migrant laborers come because they have received a good experience in our particular district. And if that does not happen. we have a law to make sure that that one bad apple in the barrel is dealt with so it is a mutual admiration society and they come. knowing that they will receive above minimum wages for their efforts. And for anyone to say. "Well. why dont you use the labor that is available in your own area?" Let me give you another personal experience. The only reason the Goodling Fruit Farm continued is that before my Dad died. each year the last few years he put his pension that he received from the Congress of the United States into keeping it afloat. He had to use domestic labor because he was too small to bring in a migrant force. When I go out there the domestic workers come down at noon with the truck or with the trailer and the tractor and the three or four domestic workers might have 10. 20. 30. or 40 bushels of apples on that trailer. Can you imagine how much those apples would cost if someone had to purchase them according to the expense it cost to produce them?
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95%
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gemini-2.0-flash
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Economic contributor Legal / procedural

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