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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
B- tifX Burr P. Harrison
Washington—Virginia farmers particularly the orchardists, are much concerned by strong indications here that the Department.of Labor intends to assert authority to control strictly the conditions of employment of temporary farm workers.
For years, farmers have had to tread their tortuous way through a tangle of Department of Agriculture regulations affecting their efforts to earn a living. Now, they see another department of the Federal Government bent on adding to their woes.
This threat appeared with publication by the Department of Labor of a document entitled, “Proposed Standards of Interarea Recruitment of Seasonal Agricultural Workers.” The Department emphasized that the regulations were tentative, but indicated that some new rules on the subject finally would be put into effect. Last week, I transmitted to Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell the most earnest protests of the Virginia State Farm Bureau Federation and The Virginia State Horticultural Society. Many other members of Congress representing farming
Niiitricts likewise objecte^.
Indications were thait the next phase of' the matter would be a conference between officials of the Department of Tabor and Agriculture in regard to the jurisdictional aspects
Farmers have asked why the Department of Labor should move into the agricultural field. There would seem to be no reasonable basis for the extent of federal regulation of farm labor proposed ii> this set of regulations, which would touch on the transportation costs, housing and wages of seasonal workers brought from distant points in the United States, or from such foreign areas as the‘ Bahamas, to harvest the crops.
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