We addressed a letter to Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson requesting a reexamination of the dimensions of the program. The fact that the Secretary has allowed a month to lapse without responding to our letter shows contempt not only for 38 Members of this body of both parties. but for thousands of migrants in the east coast stream. Allow me to explain the situation a bit more. Blacks. Puerto Ricans. and a few whites migrate along the Atlantic seaboard harvesting fruits. vegetables. and tobacco. and working in nurseries. The Labor Department. as I have noted. puts peak employment in this stream at 50.000 which compares favorably with the situation in the Great Lakes Statesone of the areas to be served by the migrant manpower programwhich has an annual inmigration of about 49.000. But no migrant in any State north of North Carolina will receive any benefits from the manpower program and the most conservative estimate of the number of migrants employed in the States of Massachusetts. Connecticut. New York.
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