Reports of the Industrial Relations Department of the State of California showed that "conditions similar to those of 1935 exist today in Kern County. where a tremendous influx of migratory labor is arriving to work in the potato fields. Many of the growers make no provision whatever for housing their crews who. therefore. are camping in back yards. on roadsides. and on ditch banks with meager type of sanitary conveniences." Disease is again breaking out in the valleydysentery and diphtheria. Hundreds of migrant families are again being moved from one county to another by health officers. Is the Congress to ignore all this? This amendment has the support of the administration. It has the support of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Labor. In California the entire Democratic Party. the Grange. the Veterans of Foreign Wars. organized labor. Protestant church groups such as the Homes Missions Council. the National Catholic Rural Life Conference. all support a migrant farmcamp program. The only people opposing the farmcamp program are a few Associated Farmers. If we followed their philosophy we would not long have a strong. dynamic democracy in this country. This amendment does not provide for the building of new camps. This amendment. if adopted. will save 43 camps that still remain under the Department of Agriculture as homes for migrant workers. The argument of those who oppose the committee amendment is that they want the camps operated locally. That is exactly what this amendment provides.