Cane cutting is a more exacting job than citrus picking. It happens to be the case that every Secretary of Labor who has preceded Mr. Wirtz in the years since the program has been underwayand it has been underway since 1917. off and on. it has been underway since 1933 under the present situation where the Secretary of Labor is given the responsibility of certifying as to the need for supplemental workers before they can be brought into this country by the Immigration and Naturalization Servicefour preceding Secretaries of Labor. after exploring the situation. have come to the conclusion. which I believe to be a necessary conclusion. that there are not available in this country any supplemental workers willing to cut cane as cane is required to be cut in Florida. In Florida. sugarcane grows helterskelter. stalks overlying each other. or lying down as one great mass. It cannot be cut with machinery. as it can be cut in the State of Louisiana. where each cane stalk stands up by itself.
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