Many of my distinguished colleagues in this House share my concern for the wages. working conditions. housing. and health standards of farm labor in our country. especially the laborers who are hired for seasonal work on the large farmsthe socalled factories in the field. The braceros are an important part of that work force. with some 400.000 of them being brought into the country for seasonal work each year. No informed person can deny the fact that many of the braceros. and many of our native migrant workers. live and toil under conditions that are an affront to human dignity and a disgrace in a free. democratic society. This fact has been recognized by the Secretary of Labor. by church leaders. by organized labor. by many responsible farmers. and by everyone else who has taken the trouble to investigate. The evidence is overwhelming and indisputable.