Session #90 · 1967–69

Speech #900131821

At the time the cherry crop was almost ready to be picked. and we saw the temporary migrant housing which had been built to take care of the workers who followed the fruit crops from south to north during the course of the year. Like the Senator from California. I was very much impressed with these September .28. 1967 temporary housing programs. We found in one campwhich actually was a camp for single men. a sort of bachelors and widowers campan extremely competent cook from Pittsburgh. who was giving these migrant workers--some of whom were younger fellows but most of them veterans of the fruit and vegetable pickingtwo good meals a day. and they had a chance to get a cold lunch. The barracks. as one might call them. or dormitories. were clean and neat. and gave adequate protection from the weather. and I was very much impressed with them. Where that sort of facility does not exist. the migrant people often live in squalor. We went from there to another area where they had temporary housing for families. And they practically had a Headstart program going among the kids there in a sort of classroom which had been set aside for that purpose. The mothers were doing a lot of the teaching. and a number of volunteer girls had come in from the neighboring town of Stockton to help give these kids the normal educational processes. These children were. to be sure. in the kindergarten and the earlier grades. And the houses. although temporary. were neat and clean. and they were well kept up by. the migrant families. I was very much impressed. Then. we went out.
Keywords matched
migrant

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Positive
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
100%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
JOSEPH CLARK
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
PA
Gender
M
Date
—
Speech ID
900131821
Paragraph
#0
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