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In the valleys of California Greenhouse, ha strawberries and asparagus have been in recent weeks in the areas of roads, while farmers watched with apprehension in the summer, the melon salad and rewards. Al though the state has a nearly 440000 employees, it is facing an acute shortage of agricultural work and enormous losses in the largest ($ 3.5 billion), industry - agriculture.

For the year comprehensive supply orders for major crops was mostly of Mexican migrant workers, known as braceros (working poor), the armies of the border, in the room during the time of Wednesday son. They lived most of wooden shacks, which are often less than the $ 1.25 an hour federal minimum.

This regulation at the US bor angered unions, the unemployed domestic roles, the Congress and the law allows permissive bracero expire at the end of last year.

Growers bitterly complained that the Americans do not, stooping low work, the only non-Mexican workers, they have been received and Betrunkenen incompetent. “You want us to go to Los Angeles and supporters of the screen,” Jack charge Tabata, who last month, twelve hectares ploughed his Orange County strawberries in a public area to protest against the refusal of government reduction bars braceros. Tabata also the Secretary-General lab sent Willard W. Wirtz a specialist in small fruit crushed attack, he said, a worker with the division of labour.

“Pampered children. Gene Under the Immigration Act ral, Wirtz may admit foreign workers, if it is convinced that the workers can not be found on the market and domes tic promise, if farmers the same wages for all - now $ 1.40 per hour in California. however, it refuses to admit that the large number have been allocated under the law expired (more than 100000 braceros in California, has worked over the last year) the cries of California farmers for its downfall. Despite the farm ers’ complaints, the office said Wirtz, less than 10000 foreigners have been requested in the general framework of the Immigration Act. Some of the crop has been the ruin of the debt “sulphurous overplanting.

Thomas L. Pitts, the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO in California, which has been accused by farmers, “spoiled Cornell, such as children with a regular meeting of the dam Heulsusen causes of action, as their crops are red. If they prove only a fraction lot of interest also to their employees, as in their cultures, labour issues evaporate. “

Final Solution? In response to farmers’ shouts that $ 1.40 an hour’s salary on the scale of California, the price of the output of the competition, Democratic Governor Pat Brown explained that “you can not expect an American work for less than $ 1.40 per hour in the hot sun and the hard work they do. “

As a result of the discussion, all stakeholders in a few needed, emergency solutions to save the catastrophic impact of the crop. Wirtz, the Secretary-General of employment of over 3500 braceros ($ 1.40 per hour). And in a laboratory at the Department of cooperation, the government, farmers and schools, over 700 High School boys were recruited for the course of this summer. But none of these latter a genuine answer to the question orders.