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in Rappahannock, for apples, one of the main crops, are harvested in a large part by transient labor. Rep. Harrison last week again voiced his protest against federal interference and stated that “'This proposal, it is clear, represents an unwarranted effort by the Secretary of Labor to exercise a substantial measure of oppressive control over seasonal agricultural employment in the United States on a contrived and tenuous statutory basis and without a shadow of specific legislative authortiy.”
Mr. Harrison’s statement, di- -=■ rected to Deputy Solicitor Harold C. Nystrom of the Labor Department, predicted: Si. . .
'If the Federal Government, and -T«vtieulajfty,' the Department of - —Labor? prevails iir this- effort to - ‘improve’ the harvesting of fruit crqps-m Virginia, not only the itv- dividual fruit1 farmer, but also the . entire economy of a hard-pressed agricultural region will suffer immediate and substantial injury, and intolerable uncertainty as tq' the sufficiency of the supply of qualified agricultural labor for future * harvests."
The text of Mr. Harrison’s protest follows: Dear Mr. Nystrom:
With respect to the proposed revision of 20 CFR 602.9 and 604.1, the subject of a public hearing scheduled for September 10, 1959, pursuant to an announcement of August 10, 1959, I desire to enter, for the record, a most earnest objection to the proposal on behalf of the affected farmers of Virginia.
This proposal, it is clear, repre
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