One reasonbut not the only reasonfor the very bad conditions which prevail among this class of workers is the fact that the labor market for migratory workers is overflooded by the annual importation of approximately a half million migratory workers from outside the Nation. of whom the Mexican workers. under Public Law 78. form approximately twothirds. These poor people come into the country. They can be hired for low wages. Public Law 78 makes some slight effort at protection by fixing their minimum wage at 50 cents an hour. but that is very inadequate. As the labor supply of Mexican migrants increases. the entire wage level of the migratory workers goes down. This is one of the reasons why these people are in so bad a plight. Always there is heard the piteous plea about the small farmer and that has been raised in this debate.
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