Mr. President. two excellent articles concerning migrant farmworkers. written by James MacGregor and Raul Ramirez. were published recently in the Wall Street Journal. The articles focus on the working and living conditions of the migrants who harvest crops in the Middle Atlantic and the Middle Western States. As chairman of the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor. I have visited migrant camps and home base areas in California. Texas. and Florida. From these experiences. I know that the deplorable conditions so clearly described in the articles exist throughout our generally affluent Nation. The subcommittee is at present conducting a series of hearings in migrant and seasonal farmworker "powerlessness." In the hearings. we have invited migrants themselves to come to Washington to tell their own story "like it is." So I have seen. I have heard. and I know of the despair. the hopelessness. and the poverty. illiteracy. poor health. and injustice which thousands of our hardest working citizens are powerless to change. Articles such as the two published in the Wall Street Journal are of immeasurable value in informing the public of the irony of the tragic plight of the men. women. and children who harvest our Nations abundance of food.
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