What are the facts of child labor? It is an old storyfor. long before the country became incensed about the abuses inherent in agricultural child labor. industrial child labor became such a national scandal that. almost two generations ago. we finally outlawed it. But the pitiful conditions of child labor in the textile mills and factories at the turn of the century are unhappily perpetuated among migrant farm children today. Let me read an excerpt from the testimony of Miss Stockburger. chairman of the National Child Labor Committee. testifying in 1963 about her most recent trip to a migrant area: When Don came to the school at 1 p.m.. he had already worked in the fields from about 4:30 a.m. to 12:30. I asked how many beans he had picked. He replied. "$6 worththats 300 pounds." Then my comment was "Then you must be hungry.