The amendment might have the indirect effect of raising wages for domestic labor. but I would remind the Senate that the 50cent minimum imposed on growers who use Mexican labor also had this effect. In other words. the principle involved has been in effect in relation to Public Law 78 for several years. By eliminating the McCarthy wage amendment. the Congress has endangered the entire program. The administration has made known that it is against any passage of this program without substantial reform. Let us not be guilty once again of ignoring the plight of the migrants and their families. Let us take a step in the direction of restoring a free labor market to American agriculture. Let us begin now to eliminate a farm labor system based on poverty and destitution.
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