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388 AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS _ They bave arcluded farmworkers from the National Labor Rela- tions Act. They have excluded them from full coverage under the Social Se- curity Act. They have excluded farmworkers from the Unemployment Insur- ance Act. Ane? have excluded farmworkers from the Fair Labor Standards ct. They have excluded them from the Wage and Hour Act. - They passed Public Law 78 and forcad the domestic farmworkers fornia Department of Employment. Under ais contract, the foreign workers were provided free trans- Portatio: ee housing, death insurance while en route from their Place of itment to the place of employment, a maximum of $1.75 v day for their meals and a guarantee of 75 percent of the work $ in {BB contract period. ® migrant labor agreement as the foreign workers’ contract was called, allowed the foreign workers, under article 21, the right to choose their own representatives, including a bona fide labor union, by election, to represent them. This, we Feel, was pure and simple discrimination against the domestic farmworkers y the Congress of the United States, by ex- cluding the domestic farmworkers from working under a signed agreement. Thank God that Congress allowed Public Law 78 te die at the end of the 1964 congressional session. With the elimination of Public Law 8, foreign workers recruited under Public Law 414 under a signed agreement with the growers’ associations and the Mexican Government, approved by the U.S. Department of Labor. And once again the dome&tic farmirorker was excluded from a written contract covering his wages, hours, and working conditions, In AWOC’s opinion. this was ure rnd sim to compete for jobs with foreign workers who were covered by a con- ‘ — tract signed by the U.S. Federa] Government and the Mexican Gov- A Soe ernment and enforced both by the Federal Government and the Cali- 1 ay PIAS, np Shr Se ae Sag ed ee ng reer oe en ee Tere 3 ee ee eB ES. . _™ 5 watts * "+ can - yt. ad a -. ; Foot, a < ae ee ae eel oe pe cae 2 nl a ee ~ a - - ee ee. _ oe