The exemption applies to the transportation of persons ``employed or
to be employed'' in the harvesting of fruits or vegetables. Included in
this phrase are persons who at the time of transportation are currently
employed in harvesting fruits or vegetables and others who, regardless
of their occupation at such time, are being transported to be employed
in such harvesting. The conveying of persons to a farm from a factory,
packinghouse or processing plant would be exempt where their
transportation is for the purpose of their employment in harvesting the
named commodities. On the other hand, the transportation of harvest
workers, who have been employed in the fruit or vegetable harvest, to
such a plant for the purpose of their employment in the plant would not
be exempt. The transportation must come within the the intended scope of
section 13(b)(16) which is to provide exemption for ``transportation of
the harvest crew to and from the farm'' (see 107 Cong. Rec. daily ed. p.
4523).
