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The housing facilities will stand any reasonable inspection, and the income clearly is not below* the "prevailing rate" for such work when performed by domestic labor . Despite such circumstances, which are duplicated in manv other localities, the Secretary of Labor insists that there is a need for Federal regulation of the housing provided and the wages paid, and that the Department of Labor should set aside, or hamstring; existing arrangements which have proved a reasonable solution to the annual problem of seasonal employment in agriculture, for employers and employees alike.
If the Federal Government, and! particularly, the Department of Labor, prevails in this effort to “improve” the harvesting of fruit' crops in Virginia, not only the individual fruit farmer, but also the entire economy of a hard-pressed agricultural region will Suffer immediate and substantial injury, and intolerable uncertainty as to the sufficiency of the supply of tjuali field agricultural labor for. future harvests. "It is simply common sense that
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