Mr. Speaker. in the second in his series on "Hunger in America" Homer Bigart has described graphically the plight of migrant farmworkers and the intolerable conditions under which so many live in migrant labor camps. In Collier County. Fla.. neither the food distribution program nor the food stamp program is available to the migrants because of the refusal of county officials to participate in those programs. This illustrates the need for the Department of Agriculture to immediately set up procedures to bypass local officials so that people are not permitted to starve. The article which appeared in the New York Times on Monday.
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