I urge this body to support the provisions of the committee bill. with the addition of the amendment proposed by Mr. FRANK. Both of these amendments address the issue raised by critics of legal services advocates who represent migrant farmworkers against agricultural Interests. Those critics claim that they are subject to spurious suits brought by legal services lawyers on behalf of farmworkers who either do not exist or who never worked for the defendants. I have heard these allegations on many occasions. but I have never seen any evidence whatsoever to suggest that there is any truth to them. I do. however. understand that legal servIces attorneys are effective and successful advocates on behalf of migrant farmworkers who are among the most exploited and least protected workers in this country. I believe that the Byron amendment is just one more effort by the agricultural community to thwart the efforts of legal services attorneys to enforce the rights of farmworkers under the Agricultural Workers Protection Act and other statutes enacted to give these workers some modicum of protection against exploitation and deprivation.