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...sugar beet industry Quota (tons) 1,450,000 1932-33 (tons...
...same predicament, but were more liberally treated to induce them to accept freedom. The others began at once to wrangle. Movements for Statehood took life in both Hawaii and Puerto Rico (see p. 14) as one means of getting a vote in Congress and lobbying for bigger quotas. The beet industry alone was in a position to wrangle at once. When the Jones-Costigan bill was passed by the House three weeks ago, its quota had been raised from 1,450,000 to 1,550,000 tons. Louisiana and Florida were granted the same quota proposed by the President. Only...
Last week the Senate put its approval (49-to-18) on the House bill practically without change. Amendments to fix the Hawaiian quota at 975,000 tons and the Puerto Rican quota at 875,000 were defeated. Only the beet sugar industry was favored over the President's proposal...
...overlook the obligations we owe to Puerto Rico and its citizens is something I cannot approve. The act will add at least 200 million dollars a year to the cost of sugar. ... In short. we ruthlessly abandon Puerto Rico and dig into our pocketbooks for the beet sugar farmers...
Before it passed the bill the Senate did the beet sugar industry one last favor. The House bill provided that crop restriction agreements with beet producers "may contain provisions which will eliminate child labor and fix minimum wages for workers." Notable was this provision, for beet growing requires so much hand labor (hoeing, thinning out. pulling) that any beet farmer who wants to cultivate more than four or five acres must hire the cheapest labor-Mexicans and their wives and children-under conditions which scandalize reformers. The Senate struck out the provision for minimum wages and the "elimination" of child...