Agriculture. Interior. and Health. Education. and Welfare. made certain recommendations regarding the migrants. Here are some of them: Extend child labor laws to cover agricultural workers. Eliminate residence requirements so that migrants will be eligible for health. education. and welfare programs. A Federal law requiring crew leaders to register. thus protecting migrants from exploitation---extension of workmens compensation laws to agriculture. New housing regulationsStates to pay local school boards for the education of migrant children. There will. of course. be opposition to these recommendations. too much Government interference. too expensive. socialism. Similar proposals have been made before. In fact. a hundred and fifty different attempts have been made in Congress to do something about the plight of the migrants. All except one has failed. The migrants have no lobby. Only an enlightened. aroused. and perhaps angered public opinion can do anything about the migrants. The people you have seen have the strength to harvest your fruit and vegetables. They do not have the strength to influence legislation.
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