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r 388 They have excluded 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. They have excluded farmworkers from the Fair Labor Standards Act. They have excluded them from the Wage and Hour Act. ‘They passed Public Law 78 and forced the domestic farmworkers to compete for jobs with foreign workers who were covered by a con- tract signed by the U.S. Federal Government and the Mexican Gov- ernment and enforced both by the Federal Government and the Cali- fornia Department of Employment. Under sis contract, the foreign workers were provided free trans- Pportatio, housing, death insurance while en route from their Place of Fécruitment to the place of employment, a maximum of $1.75 Ber day for their meals and a guarantee of 75 percant of the work in t&% contract period. The migrant labor agreement as the foreign workers’ contract was called, allowed the foreign workers, under article 21, the right to choose their own. Tepresentatives, 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 to die at the end of the 1964 congressianal session, With the elimination of Public Law 78, 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 domeStic farmworker was excluded from a written contract covering his wages, hours, and working conditions, n AWOC’s opinion. this was pure and si AMENDING MIGRATORY LABOR LAWS : Oe ee eRe ~~. Fa PO mee EAS 1