It is widely recognized that commuters are used as strikebreakers during labor organizing efforts to obtain collective bargaining agreements in California and Texas. It has been reliably estimated that 40 percent of the workers at 24 struck grape ranches in the California area in 1968 were Mexican national greencard holders. This situation has a particular impact on the migrant and seasonal farmworker who is powerless to affect his own unemployment and underemployment. powerless to fight job displacement. and powerless in union or community organization efforts to improve his living and working conditions. A proposal that is designed to alleviate some aspects of the commuter problem is contained in a bill which I am introducing today. The proposal would add a new section 8(a) (6) to the National Labor Relations Act making it an unfair labor practice for an employer to hire any alien unlawfully present in the United States. or for an employer to hire during a labor dispute as replacements for a regular employee. any person lawfully admitted to the United States whose permanent residence Is in a country contiguous to the United States.