The third bill provides a system of registering the often unscrupulous 8.000 crew leaders who recruit. transport. feed and house workers and contract out their labor. The fourth action bill authorizes grants to public and nonprofit private agencies to establish health clinics. Migrants and their families now are less healthy than the general population. For instance. the infant mortality rate is twice that of the rest of the population. and few children are immunized against disease. It seems hardly believable that the richest nation on earth would permit such conditions to exist for so long. In the nuclear age. when we are on our way to the moon. it is even less understandable that Congress can even hesitate before passing the migrant labor bills. Mr. Speaker. under the leave to include pertinent matter in the RECORD I include the first and second in a series of articles which were published last fall on this subject by the New York WorldTelegram & Sun. The first of these articles was written by Robert H. Prall. The second. and all of the other nine articles in the series were written by WorldTelegram Staff Reporter Dale Wright. who lived with the migrant farmworkers off and on for a period of about 6 months. I hope to receive permission to insert in the RECORD. from time to time. the remaining articles of this series. which I commend highly to the attention of my colleagues. [From the New York WorldTelegram & Sun.Oct. 9. 19611
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