WASHINGTON--Farm representatives charged today that the Farm Security Administration's attempts to case the manpower crisis in the South had failed "miserably" and resulted instead in drinking and other orgies by "riff-raff" laborers imported from neighboring states.
Testifying before a Senato agricultural sub-committee investigating all aspects of administration farm policy, L. L. Chandler, Goulds, Fla., said the FSA sent Negroes from Mississippi and whites from Tennessco to aid Florida and vegetable growers.
He said he had seen Negro workers "chip in for a pint of whiskey which they got in the next town. They take it back with them and lie dead drunk between the rows of beans and tomatoes."
"Loose women are a problem," he said. "They go right into the fields after their men, and stage such orgies as you have never seen before."
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