Farm Labor Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 949, a Bill Relating to the Stabilization of Defense Farm Labor, S. 985, a Bill to Amend the Agriculture Act of 1949, and S. 1106, a Bill to Facilitate the Obtaining of an Adequate Supply of Workers for the Production and Harvesting of Agricultural Commodities, and for Other Prices, March 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1951 |
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... border points , for example , provides no real aid in preventing crop losses at distant points . The emergency needs of these distant points may require the payment of transportation within the continental United States of either ...
... border points , for example , provides no real aid in preventing crop losses at distant points . The emergency needs of these distant points may require the payment of transportation within the continental United States of either ...
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... border . After the laborers are brought within the United States , the costs are then to be borne by the employers . I wish to say that the difference between S. 984 and the other bills heretofore mentioned by me is primarily on the ...
... border . After the laborers are brought within the United States , the costs are then to be borne by the employers . I wish to say that the difference between S. 984 and the other bills heretofore mentioned by me is primarily on the ...
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... borders , you know , and the " wetback " problem there that is , those who cross the Rio Grande without any authority ... border for seasonal work . We do not want that com- plicated by any Federal laws or requirement that the Federal ...
... borders , you know , and the " wetback " problem there that is , those who cross the Rio Grande without any authority ... border for seasonal work . We do not want that com- plicated by any Federal laws or requirement that the Federal ...
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... borders . I understand that the impression may have been created that pro- posals to furnish assistance in meeting the costs of transporting work- ers are an effort on the part of the Federal Government to undertake a program of ...
... borders . I understand that the impression may have been created that pro- posals to furnish assistance in meeting the costs of transporting work- ers are an effort on the part of the Federal Government to undertake a program of ...
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... border , it will make the situation that much more difficult to control . We may thereby be providing an easy avenue for the infiltration of subversive elements . In the interest of our own national security we must guard our borders ...
... border , it will make the situation that much more difficult to control . We may thereby be providing an easy avenue for the infiltration of subversive elements . In the interest of our own national security we must guard our borders ...
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agricultural labor agricultural workers American workers authority BAIRD believe border British West Indies BRONSON camps CHAIRMAN CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contract cotton CREASEY crops defense Department of Labor domestic farm labor domestic labor domestic workers Ellender employed employers Employment Service expense FALK Farm Labor Board farm workers farmers Federal Government FERRIS foreign labor foreign workers growers harvest Immigration Indian industrial LARIN legislation LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MAGLEBY manpower March 15 MASON ment Mexican Government Mexican nationals Mexico migrant migratory National Farm Labor Navahos necessary Northwest obtain operate percent problem production Puerto Rico question reception centers record representatives RESS Ricans RIGGLE ROBB Ruth Muskrat Bronson season Secretary of Labor Senator AIKEN Senator Ellender Senator HICKENLOOPER Senator HOLLAND Senator MAGNUSON Senator MUNDT Senator THYE shortage statement sugar beets United States Senate Washington
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Page 138 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Page 3 - The members of the committee shall receive no compensation for their services...
Page 138 - Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Page 133 - ... the employment of such workers will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of domestic agricultural workers similarly employed...
Page 8 - Revised Statement of Policies for School Desegregation Plans Under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," and (6) "Guidelines for School Desegregation.
Page 138 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 4 - SEC. 503. No workers recruited under this title shall be available for employment in any area unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified that (1) sufficient domestic workers who are able, willing, and qualified are not available at the time and place needed to perform the work for which such workers are to be employed...
Page 5 - Code, as amended, horticultural employment, cotton ginning, compressing and storing, crushing of oil seeds, and the packing, canning, freezing, drying, or other processing of perishable or seasonable agricultural products. "(2) The term 'employer...
Page 2 - (1) to enter into agreements with Federal and State agencies; to utilize (pursuant to such agreements) the facilities and services of such agencies; and to allocate or transfer funds or otherwise to pay or reimburse such agencies for expenses in connection therewith; "(2) to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated services: and "(3...
Page 97 - States against loss by reason of its guaranty of such employer's contracts; (2) to reimburse the United States for essential expenses, not including salaries or expenses of regular department or agency personnel, incurred by it for the transportation and subsistence of workers under this title in amounts not to exceed $15 per worker; and...