Mr. Speaker. yesterday I was advised that the Office of Economic Opportunity. after evaluating the work of the South Florida Migrant Legal Services Program. Inc.. over the last 2 years. has recommended that this program be refunded in fiscal year 1970. I concur wholeheartedly with these findings and urge support of this program so that it can continue to provide desperately needed legal services to migrants in a- sixcounty area of south Florida. The evaluators have said: The program has reached the people in the camps. has won their confidence and has achieved formidably in their behalf. perhaps most notably in obtaining. in settlement of a law suit against American Foods. the only migrant labor bargaining agreement within recall of Florida memory. This view is shared by a nuniber of nonmigrants interviewed. including nonproject lawyers. I can think of no higher praise than this for a program which is specifically designed to help the poorboth migrant and nonmigrantwho are perhaps the least well represented group in our Nation. Mr. Speaker. there has been some controversy over this program. primarily due to a lack of communication between different elements of the sixcounty area.
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