The farmers views will have every consideration. I have been here for some time. It took about 32 years from the Great Depression to correct what was one of the most shameful episodes in American life in terms of worker employment. of the migrant farm laborer who was tremendously abused and held in peonage. The stories which we heard respecting crew leaders. at the time we passed the first bill. were almost unbelievable in this country. that people could literally be held by force over long periods of time in the most abominable conditions. without pay. in a state of peonage. With that kind of background.