The increased wages and increased employment have probably resulted in an increase in income of about $20 million this year for our farmworkersextra Income going to that portion of our population that needs it most. This far outweighs the minor losses that some growers have been claiming. Secretary Wirtz deserves the gratitude of the Congress and the public for seeing that our action in Congress was not thwarted by administrative subterfuge. that through the use of the Immigration Act largescale foreign labor imports did not swamp the domestic labor market. If another "Profiles in Courage" were to be written today. his battle to advance the cause of American farmworkers would rate an early chapter. Mr.
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