An additional and more significant result of the vote on Wednesday would mean the entrance into this country of hundreds of thousands of bracero workers who will swim the river to work on American farms at wages many times the wage that they are receiving in their homeland. The Mexican labor law brings these workers into this country under a carefully screened and highly regulated procedure by which they are contracted to employers for specified lengths of time to do a particular type of work that our own people are disinclined to perform. This House Is a reasonable body and will. upon reflection. extend this law at least 1 year as recommended by the Department of Labor. the Department of State. and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. We have but to recall the recent freeze in Florida and its effect upon the price of citrus to the consuming public. Scarcities can come not only from natural disasters as in the case of the Florida freeze. but can result from an inadequate supply of labor at the time required by the particular harvest.
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