Speaker. today I am introducing a bill to amend the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act. The same legislation has been introduced in the other body by Senator JAVITS. The Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act was enacted in 1964 to prevent the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers and their employers by irresponsible farm labor contractors. Congressional hearings revealed widespread abuses of migrants by the middlemen. known as crew leaders or body brokers. who recruited and transported them. Farmworkers were commonly promised higher wages and more work than they eventually received. were transported long distances under unsafe and degrading conditions. were housed in subhuman quarters. subjected to physical abuse. and kept in virtual peonage. The 1964 Act attempted to curb these abuses solely by regulating the activities of the crew leaders.
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