Kissinger aids scab labour

Mexico (ANSI — US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is reportedly involved in plans to import 300,000 Mexican workers a year to harvest crops in the American west.

In two recent Mexico City trips, Kissinger discussed revival of the old "bracero" programme, which lasted from 1958—1964, allowed California growers to bring about 90,000 Mexican farmworkers per year into the fields at substandard wages as strikebreakers against the old United Farmworkers Organising committee.

Current UFW officials have denounced the Kissinger talks as an effort to weaken the UFW boycott, and have alleged that Kissinger is involved in the teamster — grower conspiracy that became active against the farmworkers last year.