I wish to make one statement. When I voted against the bracero program in the House of Representatives I said that one of the great fallacies and one of the things which should be worked out in the program. was that no immigrant labor should be brought into the United States to produce crops that were in surplus in which we had acreage quotas. The small farmers in Tennessee want the privilege of raising crops. the labor is available. and they have the members of immediate families working on the farm. That is the reason why the Senator from Tennessee says the labor problems can be well taken care of and should be in the hands of the Department of Labor because we have not had the proper treatment. We could not justify any vote In the Congress by saying we allowed immigrant workers to come in. Farmers in Tennessee have families to feed and want to produce crops. This Senator will never vote that way.
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