Permanent Farm Labor Program, Hearings Before ..., 80-1 on H.R. 3367 ..., June 16 ... 20, 19471947 - 227 pages |
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... farm labor due to war production . I cannot emphasize that too much . I can give you a few facts on it . In one area in the last 3 or 4 years , the Rosa project in the Yakima Valley has put under irrigation an additional 33,026 acres of ...
... farm labor due to war production . I cannot emphasize that too much . I can give you a few facts on it . In one area in the last 3 or 4 years , the Rosa project in the Yakima Valley has put under irrigation an additional 33,026 acres of ...
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... farmers . We do not want the labor camps de- stroyed , torn down , disintegrated , and hauled away ... acres . Was that land under cultivation previous to that conservation ... Farms Co. , and I am also here in 26 PERMANENT FARM LABOR PROGRAM.
... farmers . We do not want the labor camps de- stroyed , torn down , disintegrated , and hauled away ... acres . Was that land under cultivation previous to that conservation ... Farms Co. , and I am also here in 26 PERMANENT FARM LABOR PROGRAM.
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... farms , making a total of about 30,000 acres in southern New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware . Mr. ANDRESEN . And what is the nature of your production ? Mr. SEABROOK . Our production is largely asparagus , peas , string ...
... farms , making a total of about 30,000 acres in southern New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania and Delaware . Mr. ANDRESEN . And what is the nature of your production ? Mr. SEABROOK . Our production is largely asparagus , peas , string ...
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... crops that are grown , such as beans , tomatoes , potatoes , which you people have got to have in order to live . In addition to the United States Sugar Corp. we have the Fellsmere Sugar Co. with 5,000 acres , and they have another ...
... crops that are grown , such as beans , tomatoes , potatoes , which you people have got to have in order to live . In addition to the United States Sugar Corp. we have the Fellsmere Sugar Co. with 5,000 acres , and they have another ...
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... production of beets . We have many acres of beets , and they all have to be thinned , and this stoop work has to be done , and these children can't do it .. You are telling me the same story I heard 20 years ago , long before we had the ...
... production of beets . We have many acres of beets , and they all have to be thinned , and this stoop work has to be done , and these children can't do it .. You are telling me the same story I heard 20 years ago , long before we had the ...
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Page 160 - ... the establishment and maintenance of a permanent and effective agricultural Industry of the United States, including researches basic to the problems of agriculture in its broadest aspects, and such investigations as have for their purpose the development and improvement of the rural home and rural life...
Page 2 - Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
Page 2 - ... child-welfare services") for the protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected children, and children In danger of becoming delinquent, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $1,500,000.
Page 120 - Commission shall make such vessel available for acquisition by a veteran, as defined in subsection (b), in accordance with the provisions of the Surplus Property Act of 1944, as amended (USC, 1940 edition, Supp.
Page 221 - State agency authorized in the bills and the employment service will tend to lessen the. possibility of coordinated action and desirable transfer of workers from urban to rural employment and vice versa. The Federal interagency committee recommended that programs for public; recruitment and placement services for migrant workers and employers be sufficiently coordinated to determine the minimum needs for migrant workers and to facilitate the movement of essential workers across State lines and from...
Page 1 - Secretary") is authorized and directed to make available through loans, purchases, or other operations, price support to cooperators for any crop of any basic agricultural commodity, if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for such crop, at a level not in excess of 90 per centum of the parity price of the commodity nor less than...
Page 220 - The child labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act apply to children in agricultural pursuits only when they are legally required to attend school.
Page 118 - lawful residents of the United States" includes aliens who enter the country under the ninth proviso of section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917 as well as other aliens who have legally entered the country.
Page 214 - that such State and Federal legislation be enacted and such administrative action taken as is necessary to give the same protection to migrant workers as is available to other workers ; to improve the employment status of agricultural workers ; and to establish minimum standards below which employment conditions, transportation, welfare, and educational facilities and practices shall not be allowed to fall".
Page 48 - ... study, and we believe this is the type of equipment that will be very much required in the event of any future emergency. Mr. MEDLEY. It is authorized, Mr. Chairman, of course, by the National Industrial Reserve Act of 1948, which was Public Law 883 of the 80th Congress. POSITION OF ODM Mr. SMITH. Mr. Chairman, I have a letter here that I would like to read into the record, if I may, which sets forth ODM:s position on this.