Farm Labor Program: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on S. 949, a Bill Relating to the Stabilization of Defense Farm Labor, S. 985, a Bill to Amend the Agriculture Act of 1949, and S. 1106, a Bill to Facilitate the Obtaining of an Adequate Supply of Workers for the Production and Harvesting of Agricultural Commodities, and for Other Prices, March 13, 14, 15, and 16, 1951

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1951 - 188 pages
 

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Page 138 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Page 3 - The members of the committee shall receive no compensation for their services...
Page 138 - Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Page 133 - ... the employment of such workers will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of domestic agricultural workers similarly employed...
Page 8 - Revised Statement of Policies for School Desegregation Plans Under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," and (6) "Guidelines for School Desegregation.
Page 138 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 4 - SEC. 503. No workers recruited under this title shall be available for employment in any area unless the Secretary of Labor has determined and certified that (1) sufficient domestic workers who are able, willing, and qualified are not available at the time and place needed to perform the work for which such workers are to be employed...
Page 5 - Code, as amended, horticultural employment, cotton ginning, compressing and storing, crushing of oil seeds, and the packing, canning, freezing, drying, or other processing of perishable or seasonable agricultural products. "(2) The term 'employer...
Page 2 - (1) to enter into agreements with Federal and State agencies; to utilize (pursuant to such agreements) the facilities and services of such agencies; and to allocate or transfer funds or otherwise to pay or reimburse such agencies for expenses in connection therewith; "(2) to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated services: and "(3...
Page 97 - States against loss by reason of its guaranty of such employer's contracts; (2) to reimburse the United States for essential expenses, not including salaries or expenses of regular department or agency personnel, incurred by it for the transportation and subsistence of workers under this title in amounts not to exceed $15 per worker; and...

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