Mr. President. the White House Conference on Children and Youth has taken forum action on many of the issues affecting our young people today. I was particularly gratified to note that the forum on "The Young With Socially Handicapped" has passed resolutions which indicate a deep and extensive interest in the migrant workers of this Nation. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. I feel that the subcommittee should take full advantage of the additional national attention thrown on the migratory worker problem by action of the members of the conference. Among the many fine resolutions passed by the forum are those endorsing Federal action to improve housing and education of migrants. The subcommittee is now considering bills to accomplish these purposes. as well as several others also supported by the conference forum. The forum stand on education is particularly welcome. because education is certainly one of the bedrock problems facing migrants today. Our studies indicate that more than 50 percent of the estimated 100.000 schoolage migrant children in the United States are from 1 to 4 years behind regular students in school. I shall take the resolutions of the Conference forum as an indication of growing support and interest for Federal legislation in this field of critical human problems. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Appendix of the RECORD those forum resolutions most directly concerned with legislation now before the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. as well as those concerned with other existing or potential Federal action.
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