There is absolutely no goodreason why farmworkers. the most hardworking Americans and the least paid. should continue to be outside the whole framework of sooial and economic legislation. We have partially extended minimum wage coverage for those on large farms. but it is widely violated. and is still 300 below the industrial minimum. We have social security coverage. but because many times farmworkers are paid in cash without receipt. or paid through unscrupulous crew leaders. and so forth. we figure that thousands and thousands of migrants are not being adequately covered under social security because it is not enforced. We have crew leader registration laws that similarly are being either widely ignored or not enforced. Only 17 States have any workmens compensation laws which extend to the farmworker. and most all of those provide voluntary. coverage only.
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