The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act is not a compulsory school attendance act. There is no provision in it which requires a child to attend school. This was not told to these people. and they. in their desire to abide by the law regardless of how damaging it might be. tried to work the children of these migrant workers into the schools. The result was that the school facilities were absolutely inadequate. Children of LatinAmerican descent who could not speak English were placed in schoolrooms with children who were in regular attendance in the schools. The result was that the migrant children in many Instances did not know when to turn the page of the book unless they watched their seatmate or some other child in the schoolroom. The situation also presented a health problem. as you can well understand. in these overcrowded. congested schoolrooms. The migrant workers did not understand. and the farmers did not understand. The migrant workers soon found out that the mother and father of seven or eight children ranging between the ages of 4 and 14 years could not possibly pull enough bolls in a day to feed 10 hungry mouths. much less clothe them. They also found out that the children who were under school age quickly noticed the separation of the family and were much harder to control on the site of the field where the mother and father were trying to work. than they ever had been before. The situation left the migrant workers with two choices. One was to appeal to the publicwelfare authorities for assistance. and this many of them did. The publicwelfare authorities soon discovered that they were confronted with a problem with which they were not remotely prepared to cope. Efforts were made by these authorities. but the funds for that purpose were quickly exhausted and there were no more to be had. The other choice left to the migrant worker was to return to his home in south Texas and half starve himself and his family through the winter months without sufficient funds to clothe his children so that they could attend school. The situation that was faced by these migrant workers also shook their very character to the roots. I have had many of them plead with me with tears in their eyes to help them out so that they could work and meet their own responsibilities. To give you one pointed example I tell you about a case in the fine town of Memphis.