Session #88 · 1963–65

Speech #880088606

This would give farmworkers a few of the very benefits which the imported braceros have enjoyed for 12 years. Needless to say. the growers are violently fighting this attempt at equalizatioil and are attempting to knock this amendment out of the bill. Even with the amendment. the importation of hundreds of thousands of additional workers would depress the wages and would limit the job opportunities of U.S. farmworkers. Wages cannot rise as long as a limitless supply of labor is available and importable. Finally. Mr. TALCOTT contends that migrant farmworkers lead a terrible life and should not be encouraged in this type of work. He is right. But what are these farmworkers to do?
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