COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY. EIGHTY-SECOND CONGRESS A BILL RELATING TO THE STABILIZATION OF S. 984 A BILL TO AMEND THE AGRICULTURAL ACT OF 1949 AND S. 1106 A BILL TO FACILITATE THE OBTAINING OF AN MARCH 13, 14, 15, AND 16, 1951 Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Bond, Howard, representing the American Sugar Cane League, New 86 Engler, Robert, legislative representative, National Farmers Union, Falk, Ernest, manager, Northwest Horticultural Council, and repre- Fernós-Isern, A., Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico__ Gorman, Howard W., chairman, resources committee, Navaho Tribal Gorman, Samuel W., chairman, traders committee, Navaho Tribal Greene, Rev. Shirley E., agricultural relations secretary, Council for Social Action of the Congregational Christian Churches, Merom, Hayden, Hon. Carl, a United States Senator from the State of Arizona_ Jackson, Gardner, representing the National Share Croppers Fund, Mason, Walter J., member of the national legislative committee, American Federation of Labor, Washington, D. C.__. McCormick, Clarence J., Under Secretary of Agriculture, United States III Miscellaneous documents- S. 949, Eighty-first Congress_ S. 984, Eighty-first Congress.. Letter from Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin, dated February 28, Report of Federal Security Agency on S. 984, dated March 9, 1951__ Report of Department of Agriculture on S. 949 and S. 984, dated Letter from Senators Edwin C. Johnson and Eugene D. Millikin, dated March 8, 1951, relative to amendments proposed to S. 984-- Letter from John H. Todd, Washington representative of the National Cotton Compress and Cotton Warehouse Association, dated March 9, 1951, relative to section 508 of S. 984.. Letter and memorandum from Senator Pat McCarran, chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, relative to S. 984. Letter from C. J. Bourg, vice president, American Sugar Cane League, dated March 7, 1951, relative to S. 984_ Telegram from Cecil C. Clark, president, Emergency Yakima Farm Labor Corp., dated February 8, 1951. Statement by Department of Labor on proposed operation of over- night rest stops for migratory farm workers and their families. Table showing number of farm workers, World War II lows and 1948 List of agricultural labor users represented at hearing before the 93 Telegram from Brady T. Jones, Pictsweet Foods, Inc., Mount Vernon, Letter from Edward J. Overby, assistant to the Secretary, United Telegram filed by Senator Karl E. Mundt from Kelley, Farquhar & Telegram filed by Senator Karl E. Mundt from Elvin F. Kale, C. S. Supplementary statement filed by James E. Curry, National Con- Statement filed by Hon. Samuel W. Yorty, a Representative in Congress from the Fourteenth District of the State of California__ Statement filed by Hon. Zales N. Ecton, a United States Senator from Statement filed by Felix S. Cohen, general counsel, Association of American Indian Affairs, Inc., Washington, D. C... Statement filed by Jacob S. Potofsky, president, Amalgamated Cloth- ing Workers of America, and chairman, CIO Committee on Inter- FARM LABOR PROGRAM TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1951 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, D. C. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:10 a. m., in room 324, Senate Office Building, Senator Allen J. Ellender (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Ellender, Hoey, Johnston, Holland, Anderson, Aiken, Young, Thye, Hickenlooper, and Mundt. The CHAIRMAN. The meeting will be in order. The purpose of this meeting is to hear testimony with respect to several bills on the subject of methods to supply agricultural workers. At this point in the record I should like to insert copies of S. 949, S. 984, and S. 1106, which was just introduced yesterday by Senator Magnuson. (The bills referred to are as follows:) 18. 949, 82d Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL Relating to the stabilization of defense farm labor Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Defense Farm Labor Act of 1951". SEC. 2. The Congress finds that (1) farm labor is a vital and inseparable part of the total defense manpower problem and must be considered in the same manner as industrial labor is considered to the end that production of adequate supplies of food and fiber for defense mobilization can be stabilized and made more efficient; (2) there are urgent seasonal demands in widely scattered parts of the country for defense farm workers; (3) in order to adequately fulfill these demands a coordinated program of recruitment, transportation, housing, and health service must be provided by the Federal Government; (4) in the absence of coordination, the supply of labor has sometimes fallen below local needs and at other times has so greatly exceeded local needs that farm workers have, in some sections of the country, become public charges on the States, while in other sections great financial losses were sustained by reason of labor shortages; (5) the flow of farm labor has been interstate in character, and relief problems of transient farm labor have caused inequitable burdens upon States, counties, and municipalities; and (6) provision of health services and medical care so that selective service as well as defense farm projects will not be confronted with physically deficient manpower as they were in World War II, the elimination of abuses in the employment of farm labor, and the establishment of protective standards are essential to insure the adequate flow of agricultural labor. SEC. 3. (a) The Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to take whatever steps may be necessary and proper to provide an adequate supply of farm labor in the continental United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, including, among other things, (1) the collection, compilation, and dissemination of information relevant to defense farm labor, labor-deficit areas, and housing and working conditions; (2) the recruiting, training, and placement of workers; (3) the transportation of, and the furnishing of housing, and health and medical care, and burial services to workers and their families; and (4) the construction, lease, repair, alteration, relocation, expansion, and operation of labor-supply centers, labor camps and homes, child-care centers, and other necessary facilities and services. 1 |