This is what the witnesses were referring tothe labor force and its circumstance of being. Our visible evidence was of malnutrition amounting to hunger. and the philosophy of the county officials supported that situation. as the Senator from South Dakota has stated. They spoke of "Federal people." and that the Federal Government is not taking care of the peoplethe migrantswho are responsible in great measure for the agricultural production. sales and wealth of the county. I challenged the officials on their attitudes and by stating that here I am not repeating anything that was not stated to them in person. But notwithstanding the migratory workers enormous contribution to the countys economy. the officials said they were "Federal people." and that theythe officialswere really not responsible for them. They further said that if the Federal Government wanted to give the migrants free food stamps. it was someone elses job and not theirs. They came before the committee with the philosophy that migrants were going to be paid for what they produced. and that the county had no further responsibility to them. This was not all. The county officials further testified that their philosophy was that the only way they were going to get migrants to work in the fields was by operating with a "No work. no eat philosophy." This is what it really amounted to and in those primitive terms. Mr. President. most important for us. because it has so shocked the conscience of this country. is not how many people are involved. but the extent to which the problem exist at all?
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