Speech #890270197

I point out that the investigation of the WageandHour Division has demonstrated that in local communities. school hours at harvest season can be made to start at 12 oclock noon. By that time. the child may have spent as much .as 5 or 6 hours in the fields. and be too exhausted to absorb much education. Surveys by the Wage and Hour Division illustrate that children illegally employed on the farms were generally below the grade level for their age in school. and among migrant children. the percentage ran to as high as threefourths of all the children concerned. So. Mr.