While workers in such fields as manufacturing and building trades have fought for and won reasonable increases in their wages. farmworkers continue to exist at the bottom of the economic ladder. Moreover. they have been prevented from effectively demanding rights accorded other workers in such matters as work hours. medical treatment. retirement. and other employment benefits. The shocking treatment of migrant workers shows how far employers will go in exploiting unorganized workers. Agricultural workers are excluded from participation in the standard of living enjoyed by other Americans because of a clause in the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 which specifically denies coverage to persons employed as agricultural laborers. Thus. the act deliberately makes these worthy Americans secondclass citizens by barring them from the ranks of those who can unite to demand improved Pay or working conditions from their employers.