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(Continued from Pape 1) a small step that would open the door lor more regulation. A similar measure was introduced on the House side on behalf of the Michigan Farm Bureau by Rep. Guy Vander Jagt. The bill (H.R. 2711) w'hich was cosponsored by Virginia’s seventh district congressman J. Kenneth Robinson, remains buried in committee.
Warner and Robinson are also working on a bill that would negate any labor department efforts to impose an “adverse effect wage rate” for foreign workers. As administrative aide Bill Pifer in Winchester explains it, the adverse effect wage rate is set above the usual minimum wage on the theory that “a premium should be paid to imported workers because they might be displacing domestic workers.” Virginia’s adverse effect wage is $4.39 per hour.
According to Pifer, the growers contend local workers are not available or as productive as aliens. Furthermore, migrants can make substantial amounts of money based on the piece rate since they are “more productive and can get the job done.”
Local Labor Unwilling
Robinson, who is an active fruit grower and packer in Winchester, said last spring that the adverse effect wage penalizes growers who can’t get domestic help. He believes it’s hard to find enough local workers willing to take on the hard physical labor of harvesting and that migrant workers fill a real need in the nation’s economy.
Asked who picks Robinson’s Winchester appples, Pifer responded, “I don’t know. It’s not something we’ve had to deal with in the office.”
Pifer says much of the recent activity in the area of migrants has been in the courts “and there’s not a thing a Congressional office
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