However. I do at this time urge you to acquaint yourself with this problem. to sign this discharge petition. and get this legislation through this Congress before the harvest season starts. Unless it is passed. you can expect to hear many. many complaints from the farmers of this country and from these migrant workers. whose economy has been upset. and everyone of those complaints will be justified. Some people have said. "Why not close the schools during harvest season?" I am prepared to answer that. Such a philosophy would have worked 20 years ago. when school districts were small and there were many rural schools.