Speech #890013743

I wish to read two portions of those regulations. On page 3. there will be found the following: Effective January 1. 1965. and through March 31. 1966. (a) employment offered to domestic workers must provide for wage payment rates which are no less than the applicable amounts listed on schedule A for the State in which the work is being performed. except that where the travel rate for the crop mentioned is higher. the higher rate shall be paid. I shall omit the next sentence. which any Senator interested can read in the RECORD. and go down to (b). which is particularly important: (b) except as otherwise specifically provided. domestic workers must be offered as a minimum all the terms and conditions of employment that are offered to Mexican workers under the migrant labor agreement of 1951. as amended. including a written contract embodying these conditions. That language means that anyone who hopes to qualify for the bringing in of foreign labor must offer a written contract based upon the minimum wage requirements. which differ in various parts of the country. that are provided by the Secretary of Labor in his schedule A. and. in addition. must include the terms that are in the Mexican labor contract. which is a large printed brochure containing approximately 50 pages. I quote only two of those terms to show that not only is the wage sought to be controlled. but also there is a very decided control of hours of employment. I refer to a brochure entitled "Information Concerning Entry of Mexican Agriculture Workers into the United States. Public Law 78. 82d Congress. as Amended. Migrant Labor Agreement of 1951. as Amended. and Pertinent Interpretations Published by the U.S. Department of Labor in February 1962." I ask Senators to remember that all the pertinent provisions in this agreement must be a part of the agreement signed by domestic producers in their employment of domestic workers in the event they hope to have any right to bring in supplemental labor from outside. I read from article XVI. which appears on page 12: Guarantee of work.