I am pleased to say. enjoys an unemployment ratio of only 1.5 percent. which must be close to. if not the lowest in the Nation. This means. however. that local seasonal workers simply are not available in sufficient quantities to pick our apple crop. The same is true essentially as to domestic migrants. Accordingly. our historic reliance on the use of Canadian pickers has become even more acute. And yet. the Department of Labor chooses this situation to force. with unwaivering rigidity. its concept that no foreign labor should be permitted into this country so long as an able bodied American citizen remains unemployed.
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