The Senate recognized that the small farmer who hires workers only during a brief harvest period. would have difficulty complying with the requirements of the Unemployment Compensation Act. therefore. the requirement that the farm employs eight or more workers was inserted to exempt small farmers. In the language of the Senate report: The provision would thus not affect the typical family farm or a farm employing more than eight workers for only a brief harvesting season. This provision is. however. meant to apply to those large farming operations which employ thousands of migrant workers each year. and have. in many cases. failed to provide these workers with decent housing and fair wages. The Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee recently conducted extensive hearings on the plight of migrant workers in America. The evidence produced at those hearings clearly demonstrated that the life of the migrant farmworker is not improving but rather is getting worse. I have visited the homes and working areas of farmworkers in Texas and from my experience with these unfortunate people. I am convinced that the only way to improve the working conditions and lives of farmworkers is for Congress to bring these people under the protection of Federal laws.