Mr. President. the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor is considering legislation intended to end hardship and injustice facing the migrant worker in the United States today. The proposed legislation must. of necessity. deal with existing conditions. It must change conditions where such changes are possible. which means that in many ways the subcommittee seeks to make repairs on an existing system. The results of such legislation may serve very essential purposes for only a limited number of decades or years. As we on the subcommittee study the immediate future. the National Catholic Council on Working Life is taking aim on a goal which was expressed at the National Conference To Stabilize Migratory Labor in Chicago last November. The recently issued report on that conference sums up that goal when it says that: "The onlyway we can truly help the migrant is to convince him to cease to be a migrant. Only when he settles some place can he gain any stability in employment. income. or family life." The conference also made it clear that its goal is a long range one. The final paragraph of the report says. "Of course. not all delegates * * * were of one mind. 0 * * But as they searched together for ways of providing regular employment. steady income. and stable family life for migrants and an adequate labor supply for farmers. most delegates left for home persuaded that the goal was not utopian. in fact. that it was attainable in their lifetime." The delegates to the conference included State and Federal officials. citizen groups. and growers. working to find a common ground for cooperative action. The much needed and mature deliberations and conclusions are typical of the untiring efforts in this field by the Catholic Council on Working Life. Mr.
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