COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

CLIFFORD R. HOPE, Kansas, Chairman

GEO. L. REID, Jr., Clerk

Mrs. MABEL C. DOWNEY, Assistant Clerk
JOHN J. HEIMBURGER, Counsel

FRANCIS M. LE MAY. Consultant

CONTENTS

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Text of H. R. 3480.

Statement of—

Anson, Austin E., executive manager, Texas Citrus & Vegetable

Growers & Shippers Association.

Bailey, Fred, National Grange

Hadley, Dr. Eleanor M., Washington representative, National Con-

sumers League for Fair Labor Standards.

Holmaas, Arthur J., Chief, Manpower Staff, Production and Marketing

Administration, United States Department of Labor.--

Jones, Charlie W., assistant Washington representative, National

Cotton Council of America_

Larin, Don, Chief, Farm Placement Service, Department of Labor
La Tourette, William G., general manager, Garden State Service
Cooperative Association

Mashburn, Hon. Lloyd A., Under Secretary of Labor.

Mason, Walter, national legislative representative American Feder-
ation of Labor..

Mets, Keith, president, Imperial Valley Farmers Association__

Smith, Hon. Frank E., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Mississippi..

1

Tolbert, William H., chairman, National Farm Labor Users Com-
mittee__

35

Triggs, Matt, assistant legislative director, American Farm Bureau
Federation__

31

Arkansas Agricultural Council, letter from Harvey R. Adams,

Additional information submitted for the record by-

secretary-manager-

El Paso Valley Cotton Association, testimony of Harry Moore, Jr.,

manager.

Garden State Service Cooperative Association:

Agreement between employers and Puerto Rican agricultural

workers-

1952

1953

Labor Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, recommendations of___.

Labor Department:

Letter from Robert C. Goodwin, transmitting summary of activ-
ities.

19

Statement relating to definition of "Agriculture" in Public Law 78
and international migrant labor agreement__

39

113

91

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Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, letter from Ronald M. Ketcham,
transmitting statement.

McCarthy, Hon. Eugene J., statement of

National Agricultural Workers Union, A. F. of L., statement of
H. L. Mitchell, president -

National Cotton Compress & Cotton Warehouse Association, Inc.,
letter from John H. Todd, counsel and Washington representative,
transmitting statement___

National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, letter from John J. Riggle,
secretary, transmitting statement..

New Mexico Farm Bureau, testimony of Mitchell Landers, chairman,

cotton labor committee__

Schmidt, Mrs. John M., letter from..

Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers' Association, statement of Ernest

Williams, secretary-treasurer.

United States Beet Sugar Association, letter from Robert H. Shields__

West Virginia State Horticultural Society, resolution of__