Madam President. it is a disgrace that the richest nation in the world permits a system of virtual peonage to continue in the 20th century. Our migrant farmworkers have been cited by Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg as the most economically underprivileged group in the Nation.- His predecessor. Secretary Mitchell called their plight the shame of America. Their income is shockingly low. The average migrant worker receives less than $1.000 a year. Because they are constantly on the move. migrant workers and their families do not qualify for local public health and welfare services. They rarely see a doctor. and their children are often not received in local schools. Until they. themselves. are old enough to work. their days are spent sitting in the fields and watching their parents toil from dawn to dark.