Session #86 · 1959–61

Speech #860263881

Varden Fuller. of the University of California. which is Inserted in the hearing record page 293. I shall quote a paragraph or two if time allows. All of this legislation has direct bearing on the problem of migrant farm labor and the incredible and disgusting conditions which exist today in the United States. I am talking about the hundreds of thousands of children of migrant farm labor familiesno one knows if they number 400.000 or a half million or morewho work in the fields as young as 7 and 8 years. who live in coops and trucks and know no homes. who live in filth and disease. who attend school only occasionally. if at all. I am talking about hundreds of thousands more adult American citizens who in 1957 worked an average of only 125 days per year. with only a few additional days of work off the farm. and whose average real wage per day was $4.91. and whose average total annual income was $738 for farmwork. These figures are all cited in the hearing. and I would urge all of you to read them.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
None Specific
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
70%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
JEFFERY COHELAN
Party
D
Chamber
H
State
CA
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
860263881
Paragraph
#0
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