Session #88 · 1963–65

Speech #880053440

I should like to respond by saying first that the practice of gatehiring alone would not be enough to make the registration requirements inapplicable. The bill defines a farm labor contractor as any person who "recruits. solicits. hires. furnishes. or transports" migrant workers. and gatehire of course is included within the general term "hires." In this case. therefore. the need to register as a crew leader depends on whether the workers are hired for interstate agricultural employment and on this question. I would say that the existence of interstate employment is determined from the workers point of view rather than the employers. That is. as the term is defined in the bill. "interstate agricultural employment" Is present whenever the workers have been transported from one State to another. The association hiring the migrant workers would not necessarily have to transport them to another State in order to be covered by the bill. Putting it in another way. it boils down to the origin of the worker who presents himself for employment.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Neutral
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
95%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Legal / procedural

Speaker & context

Speaker
HARRISON WILLIAMS
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
NJ
Gender
M
Date
Speech ID
880053440
Paragraph
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