Unfortunately. this attempt has not received the public attention to which it is due. It has been shouldered out of the news by a host of other items. Yet public understanding is essential if any light is to cast into the shadowy migrant world where poverty. privation. lack of opportunity. and illiteracy are the stuff of everyday life. That the working conditions of the migratory farmworker are a matter of serious and immediate concern to the Nation was also emphasized by Secretary Goldberg. On this point. he said: The present administration has taken the position that the time for study has passed. and that the time for action is now. that the United States can no longer afford this black mark on its domestic economy.