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Excerpt from Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Powerlessness, Vol. 8: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-First Congress, First and Second Sessions on Who Is Responsible? July 24, 1970
If the migrant workers in this area are ever to improve themselves, the depress ing and often repressive conditions in this area must be so thoroughly exposed that public indignation will demand that something he done to halt the abuses of the agribusiness-industry. These interests have the money to hire publicists and lawyers to see that -their image is presented in the best light possible. The migrants can neither express themselves in these ways nor rely on paid agents to present their side of the story. I am sure nbc has done a thorough investigative job and will not be misled by the farmers and their spokesmen. I felt, however, that the role of these large grower associations and their political allies in attempting to prevent the migrants from Sharing in our system of equal justice for all should be told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
