I should like to say that the Senator from Florida. who is extremely well informed in this matter. is. of course. mighty persuasive. I think the statistics. however. are a sufficient answer to what he has stated. According to the U.S. Department of Labor. the wages of migrant farmworkers have decreased steadily ever since the Mexican national program has been in operation. Farm wages have gone upyes. But the wages of domestic migratory farmworkersthose who are in direct competition with Mexican laborhave gone down. In 1952. the average daily wage earned by migrants was $6.90. Today it is only $6. This represents a decrease of about 14 percent.
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