Speech #830026139

Transportation and subsistence. July 15. 1951Dec. 31. 1952 Employees brought in ---------- 340. 000 Average cost per employee----- $11. 25 Total receipts (received from employers) ---------------------$5.378.000 Total expenditures ------------- $3. 643.600 Surplus ------------------ $1.734.400 Administrative costs (paid by Government): Calendar year 1951July 15 to Dec. 31: Number of employees brought in -------------- 140.000 Total cost -------------$1.400. 000 Average cost per employee. $10.00 Calendar year 1952Jan. 1 to Dec. 31: Number of employees brought in --------------- 197. 000 Total cost -----------------$2.245. 800 Average cost per employee-- $11.40 Total administrative cost (paid by Government): 1951 -------------------------$1.400.000 1952 -------------------------2.245.800 Total (paid by Government) ------------------3.645.800 Additional costs (paid by Government) Skips: 19516.949 at $30 per skip equals ------------------- 188. 470 19522.115 at $30 per skip equals ------------------- 63.450 Total skip cost ----------- 251.920 Department of Labor administrative cost ----------------- 3. 645. 800 Skip cost ------------------- 251.920 Total ------------------- 3.897. 720 Minus surplus from employers-. 1.734.400 Cost to Government -- 2. 163. 320 This final cost figure is incomplete. It does not include total Immigration Service costs. Here are the statistics in regard to cost: So. the program now is not selfsufficient. it does involve a subsidy. a subsidy which would not have existed if the amendment I offered in 1951 had been accepted and which I would offer today if a bill permitting extensive amendments from the floor were before the House. I think we need to come to the realization that we do have a great problem here in regard to migratory agricultural labor. a matter of national policy. which we should face up to now rather than postpone it from year to year.