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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... understand hearings commence next week , we desire to bring to your attention excerpts from a letter which we have received from interested parties in Colorado regarding certain provisions of the proposed legislation : " It is our ...
... understand hearings commence next week , we desire to bring to your attention excerpts from a letter which we have received from interested parties in Colorado regarding certain provisions of the proposed legislation : " It is our ...
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... understanding that , under the present agreement and under procedures established for similar measures during World War II , transportation costs were provided by the prospective employers from the place of contracting to the place of ...
... understanding that , under the present agreement and under procedures established for similar measures during World War II , transportation costs were provided by the prospective employers from the place of contracting to the place of ...
Page 15
... understand it , his bill will provide for these amendments satisfactorily , without change . If you would accept these amendments from the standpoint of " committee amendments " I am sure it would be very helpful all around and not ...
... understand it , his bill will provide for these amendments satisfactorily , without change . If you would accept these amendments from the standpoint of " committee amendments " I am sure it would be very helpful all around and not ...
Page 16
... introduced goes a step further and and excludes foreign labor from the Social Security Act . I have talked to the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate , and as I understand him , Senator George , he 16 FARM - LABOR PROGRAM.
... introduced goes a step further and and excludes foreign labor from the Social Security Act . I have talked to the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate , and as I understand him , Senator George , he 16 FARM - LABOR PROGRAM.
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... understand him , Senator George , he had no objection to the exclusion from the Social Security Act of laborers , foreign laborers , that are brought in for agricultural purposes . Senator HICKENLOOPER . Mr. Chairman , I would like to ...
... understand him , Senator George , he had no objection to the exclusion from the Social Security Act of laborers , foreign laborers , that are brought in for agricultural purposes . Senator HICKENLOOPER . Mr. Chairman , I would like to ...
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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...