I quote from page 79: The United States Department of Agriculture figures on wages for farm labor in Texas in 1950 were 54 cents an hour. in New Mexico 54 cents an hour. in Arizona 64 cents an hour. and in California 88 cents an hour. I might say that in the Imperial Valley in California farmlabor wages were about half what they were at the time up in the San Joaquin Valley. which is about 200 miles north. The farther away you get from the MexicanCalifornia border the higher the farm wage gets. This proves the depressing effect of wetback or contract labor from Mexico. This bill will give a cloak of "legalism" to labor exploitation by the corporate farm owners of the West. It will have a bad effect on our international relations with Mexico and other Latin American countries.
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