Mr. President. Secretary of Labor Mitchell was carrying out what many people find to be a very desirable and needed public policy in setting down reasonable regulations relating to housing. to wages. to transportation. and. indeed. to all other matters affecting the wellbeing of migrant farmworkers. This is a group of people in our country who are in need of some Federal assistance in terms of regulations pertaining to their wellbeing and their personal welfare. I hope the Secretary of Labor will not retreat from his position. I believe that the Secretary of Agriculture is wrong. It is true that migrant workers labor on agricultural lands in the agricultural economy. but they are entitled to fair standards in wages. They are entitled to decent living quarters. They are entitled to public health protection. and one of the great shames of America has been the way the migrant farm worker has been treated. He has been exploited. He is a victim of economic and social exploitation. And it is to the credit of Secretary of Labor Mitchell that he has observed this condition and has seen fit to try to do something about it. I am hopeful he will not give up in his efforts to correct some of the abuses in this situation. The Secretary of Labor is to be commended. not scolded. and the Secretary of Agriculture would be better off if he would think in terms of production. and let the Secretary of Labor think in terms of protection for individual citizens who are affected by the migrant labor conditions.