This is the least that the Government can do for workers who are so vulnerable to exploitation. The Department of Labor made a survey of crew leader practices in 1960 and rechecked their findings just before the hearings held by the Committee on Education and Labor. The surveys indicated that employertype responsibility is increasingly being assumed by the crew leaders. and that the crew leaders are. in large part. responsible for the abuses to migrant workers. The surveys indicated that the crew leaders often maintain payrolls and report taxes. They indicated that it was common practice for farm employers to advance transportation costs to the crew leaders on a loan basis and that the advances are later deducted from the workers earnings.