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(Right) Children must aid parents to eke out a living, when wages are substandard (Below)... and when "home" is a dilapidated shack. Missions to Migrants THE TYPICAL "hired man" in this country lived on one farm the year around as recently as 20 years ago. Tractors and combines have rapidly taken his place, and he has gone off to the city. But tractors can't pick beans - no one had a better device yet for this purpose than the four fingers and thumb the Lord invented. So today four out of five farm laborers are the men, women and children - who come around at harvest time to pick the crops. There are two and one half million migratory farm laborers, families includes. Families must be included, because whole families must work to win a bare subsistence. They are the real dispossessed the real forgotten people of this nation. They are Mexican (including "wetbacks"), Puerto Rican, Negro, West Indian, and native white. When the farmer wants them, he wants them badly; when the crop is in, he is just as anxious to get rid of them. The migrant seldom has decent housing. He has no unemployment insurance. No minimum wage. No old age or survivors insurance. No disability insurance. No educational facilities for his children. No medical care. No friends. Except, that it, for the churches. Only the churches, through their home mission boards and their church women., have a program of direct service to the migrants in 25 states. In shacks, in barns, in open fields and when they are persuasive enough - in the churches and public buildings of nearby towns, 200 volunteers and part time workers under the direction of a permanent interdenominational supervisory staff of twenty, take care of children while parents work, train parents teach school, set up recreation programs, conduct worship and church school, and quietly try to get local communities to demonstrate enough Christian concern so the migrant workers, so briefly their neighbors, will have the minimum decencies of American life while they are there. The Board of Home Missions cooperates in work for migrants, thus enabling all of our churches to demonstrate friendship to some of God's children who greatly need friends.
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(Right) Children must aid parents to eke out a living, when wages are substandard (Below)... and when "home" is a dilapidated shack. Missions to Migrants THE TYPICAL "hired man" in this country lived on one farm the year around as recently as 20 years ago. Tractors and combines have rapidly taken his place, and he has gone off to the city. But tractors can't pick beans - no one had a better device yet for this purpose than the four fingers and thumb the Lord invented. So today four out of five farm laborers are the men, women and children - who come around at harvest time to pick the crops. There are two and one half million migratory farm laborers, families includes. Families must be included, because whole families must work to win a bare subsistence. They are the real dispossessed the real forgotten people of this nation. They are Mexican (including "wetbacks"), Puerto Rican, Negro, West Indian, and native white. When the farmer wants them, he wants them badly; when the crop is in, he is just as anxious to get rid of them. The migrant seldom has decent housing. He has no unemployment insurance. No minimum wage. No old age or survivors insurance. No disability insurance. No educational facilities for his children. No medical care. No friends. Except, that it, for the churches. Only the churches, through their home mission boards and their church women., have a program of direct service to the migrants in 25 states. In shacks, in barns, in open fields and when they are persuasive enough - in the churches and public buildings of nearby towns, 200 volunteers and part time workers under the direction of a permanent interdenominational supervisory staff of twenty, take care of children while parents work, train parents teach school, set up recreation programs, conduct worship and church school, and quietly try to get local communities to demonstrate enough Christian concern so the migrant workers, so briefly their neighbors, will have the minimum decencies of American life while they are there. The Board of Home Missions cooperates in work for migrants, thus enabling all of our churches to demonstrate friendship to some of God's children who greatly need friends.
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