To Meet Agriculture's Special Needs
FB Calls On Congress To Enact
Farmer-Farm Worker Relations Bill
Charles B. Shuman, president
of the American Farm Bureau
Federation, the nation’s largest
general faim organization, has
called on Congress to enact leg
islation “to establish rules
governing the relationships of
farmers and farm workers.”
At a Senate Labor Subcom
mittee hearing on April 17 the
farm leader said the new law
“should not be a part of the
Labor Management Relations
Act” because that statute “was
designed to fit industrial and
commercial concerns and their
employees.”
“Its language and concepts
do not reflect any consideration
or recognition of the unique fac
tors relating to agricultural pro
duction and employment,” Shu
man said.
He offered the Senators a
rough draft of a bill which he
said takes into consideration
“many of the special circum
stances governing farmer-work
er relationships.”
Here is the major portion of
his statement to the senators:
We recommend the enact
ment of legislation to establish
rules ' governing the relation
ships of faimers and farm work
ers. The major concepts of our
proposal are summarized below
In an endeavor to present these
concepts in more specific form
we have prepared a rough draft
of a bill designed to implement
them. A copy is attached to the
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Legislation governing farmer
and farm worker relationships
should be incorporated in a sep
arate statute. Such legislation
should not be a part of the La
bor Management Relations Act
The original National Labor
Relations Act of 1935 r re-enact
ed and revised in 1947 as the
Labor Management Relations
Act, extensively revised in 1959
by the Lan'drum-Griffin Act,
was designed to fit industrial
and commercial concerns and
their employees.
In the legislative history over
the years virtually no considera
tion was given in the drafting of
the Act and revisions thereof to
its possible applications to agri
culture. Thus its language and
concepts do not reflect any con
sideration or recognition of the
unique factors relating to agri
cultural production and employ
ment.
The Act has been the subject
pf- innumerable judicial deci
sions and NLRB rulings A
whole body of administrative
and judicial law has been built
on the framework of the Act
These decisions and rulings,
constructed on an Act devised
for non-agricultural labor rela
tions, are m many respects poor
ly designed to fit the circum
stances surrounding the agricul
tural industry
We have reviewed in this
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statement, and in the attached
supplementary statement, many
of the special circumstances
that should be taken into con
sideration in the enactment of
legislation governing farmer
worker relationships
The concept of a separate la
bor relations statute geared to
the circumstances peculiar to
an industry is not unprecedent
ed. The Railway Labor Act
governs employee-employer re
lations in the Railway industry
In 1936 Congress enacted Title
II of this Act covering labor re
lations in the airline industry
Agriculture is a larger industry,
and employs more workers than
either of these industries or
both combined for that matter
An extension of the Labor
Management Relations Act to
agriculture, as proposed in S. 8,
would force agriculture into a
framework designed for wholly
different circumstances and
conditions.
(2) Judicial decisions by
the Judiciary
We do not believe it is neces
sary or desirable to delegate re
sponsibility for initial judicial
decisions relating to farmer
worker relations to the National
Labor Relations Board or to any
Board or Commission or
Agency.
The conflicting courses and
policies of successive National
Labor Relations Boards are a
matter of record The Board’s
policies have fluctuated depend-
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ing on who has appointed the
majority of the Board Thus the
law, as interpreted by NLRB,
has been unstable and shifting
Whatever the merits of hand
ling industrial disputes in this
fashion may be, it is neither
necessary nor desirable in the
case of agriculture.
With this experience of the
past as a guide, it is quite feasi
ble to write a statute for agri
culture that clearly and specifi
cally places responsibility in
this regard in the courts There
is no need to provide for a fed-
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eral agency to exercise a judi
cial function, or to delegate
broad discretionary powers to
such agency.
Thus we would propose that
certain prohibited acts be defin
ed in specific statutory form.
Any party aggrieved by a vio
lation of the statute would have
a right to file a civil action in a
federal district court. We have
endeavored to prescribe a pro
cedure for 'the application of ju
dicial remedies to specific cases.
There remains the question of
representation and decertifica
tion elections We would pre
scribe the procedure for this in
specific detail and delegate res
ponsibility to the U S Depart
ment of Agriculture for this
ministerial function.
We also believe it would be
desirable that a second minis
terial function be performed by
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