Labor Department has supported its repeal. It is unconscionable that Oregonians so enlightened in social problems should desire the continuance of a program that prevents normal economic forces from working in the agricultural labor market and which permits trafficking in human beings as if they were commodities to be bought and sold in a fluctuating market. The human equation of the migrant and bracero program has been poignantly described in a Senate report of 1960: The migrant and his family are lonely wanderers on the face of our land. They are living testimonials to the poverty and neglect that is possible even in our healthy and dynamic democracy that prides itself on its protection and concern for the individual. Behind the screen of statistics. showing migrant laborers toiling for as little as 50 cents an hour. and working only 131 days a year. we see families crowded into shelters that are more like coops for animals. with children undernourished and in poor health. 2 or 3 years behind In school. with little chance to fully develop their talents and become useful to themselves and their country. This is the ugliest kind of human waste. The plight of the migrant families Is a charge on the conscience of all of us. The agricultural editor of the Portland Oregonian. reporting the activities of the Governors symposium on agricultural labor. wrote that those attending the symposium of the Governor adopted a resolution asking for continued importation of Mexican braceros. and this resolution was some weeks later forwarded to me by the Governor. I ask unanimous consent to have printed at this point in the RECORD the articles. the resolution. and the covering letter from the Governor.