Governmentsponsored supply of cheap. captive. cutrate foreign farm labor. As the New York Times pointed out in an editorial on March 27: Every device short of outright refusal to accept domestic farmworkers has been used to discredit the Labor Departments recruitment efforts. Frank Porter. reporting on the Secretarys factfinding trip to California has stated: In many ways the farm economy here resembles American industrial development a century and more ago when wave after wave of foreign immigrants provided a source of cheap and unorganized labor for the New England mills. No other industry in the United Statesnot steel. not autos. not coal miningreceives the special consideration given agriculture in the past decade as regards importation of labor. And among his other statements reported in the New York Times of March 29.
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