Youre afraid the boy down the street wont get his suntan. The problem is bigger than that. There are more than 2 million migrant workers in the United States. eking out a bare existence. living in squalor. going hungry more often than not. The death rate among the childrenand there are more than 500.000 of themis twice as high as in any other section of the population. A few years ago. in the lush San Joaquin Valley. amid abundant cotton. fruit. and vegetable crops. in 3 months 56 children of migratory workers died from what county records show as "malnutrition." They starved. The situation was described by a wellknown organization of farmowners as "quite normal" and "no cause for concern." The letter goes on to point out some of the other deplorable conditions which have existed in connection with the migrant labor problem. I respectfully point out that the answer is not to deny all children the right to do socalled vacation work. Our obligation is to make certain that the legislation we pass does not make it possible for any employing group to exploit children the way this writer says happened in the specific instances he discusses in which children were exploited. The answer is not to deny a child the right to pick berries. if he wants to pick berries for a few hours a day. and happens to be the child of a migrant worker. The answer is to see to it that our laws on migratory labor are so drafted. supervised. and enforced as to make certain that such children have proper food. that they have proper health protection. that they have proper housing conditions. To do otherwise seems to me to be like trying to burn down the henhouse because the owner does not want to go in and do the job necessary to take the liceoff theroosts.