We are confronted- with this reality within our very shores. Without doubt every one of us here sympathizes with th6 plight of these unfortunate people. but let me assure you our sympathy will not rectify the situation. only our action will and this action has to be taken without delay. Today I would like to direct our attention specifically to but one segment of thisarmy of the poor. the migrant farmworker. Nearly every drop of juice we drink and every piece of fruit or.vegetable we eat is laboriously gathered by the sweat of the brow of 21/2 million farmworkers. a good percentage of whom belong to that overworked and underpaid strata of society known as the "migrant worker." The term the "forgotten man" is not new and perhaps has been overworked but to no group in the United States can it be better applied than to that group of which I now speak. The migrant worker has specifically been excluded from the minimum wage rate. He as an American citizen is guaranteed a wage of $1.30 an hour. less than that guaranteed to a worker imported from the West Indies to cut sugarcane in the Florida fields. The average annual Income for working long gruelling days under the broiling sun is an incredible $891.