Therefore. he would establish minimum wages. provide for collective bargaining. and prohibit the employment of children under 15 years of age. This seems nothing more than reasonable. but when the big fruit and vegetable assemblyline producers get finished with it. it is going to seem as if an allpowerful government is thrashing a poor onegallused. onemule farmer with a catoninetails. The way Secretary Benson put it. no such program should be enacted because it would cost the producers money. Meanwhile. the average migrant farmworker has had an income of $710 a year. and in most cases an entire family working in the fields and orchards brought in less than $1.000 annually.
Identified stereotypes
Generalization about the economic status of migrant farmworkers.