Speech #910259032

The trouble in connection with this matter comes from the amendment pressed by the Senator from Minnesota and others which would have included migratory workers within the coverage of this unemployment compensation matter. Let us state the situation clearly. This means that if I as a farmer were to have an orange grove big enough or an orange grove and a vegetable farm big enough to have eight employees for half a year and needed 50 or 75 or 100 harvesting employees for a period of weeks or months or for varying periods to harvest the crop. but none of them for the long period mentioned by the bill. and if I found it impossible to retain the same harvest hands day after day. but to the contrary had to go to wherever I could to get themand that happens to be one of the facts of life insofar as the harvesting of our highly perishable crops in Florida is concernedno telling how many employees we would have had that were migrants. No telling how short a time or how long a time they would have worked. No telling how long a time they would have been in my State working.