As a result. domestic workers accounted for 97.3 percent of the manyears of labor in Californias seasonal hired farm employment in 1965. compared to only 2.7 percent for contract foreign labor. The importance of this data Is that. in the years 195964. domestic labor averaged just 73.7 percent of total seasonal manyears. while foreign labor totaled 26.3 percent. That is quite an improvement for domestic workers. yet Mr. Chamberlains column attempts to discount this by implying that Mexican immigrantssocalled greencard workersaccounted for a large share of this increase in domestic employment. This simply is not true. Between nuary 1 and October of 1965. only 56 Mexican greencard workers were approved for admission into this country for agriculture.
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