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Sources vary as to numbers involved in the cotton strikes, with some sources claiming 18,000 workers [4] and others just 12,000 workers, [5] [b] 80% of whom were Mexican. [4] In the cotton strikes of 1933, striking workers were evicted from company housing while growers and managerial staff were deputized by local law enforcement.
The Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930 was a strike of workers against lettuce growers of California's Imperial Valley. Beginning on January 1, 1930 Mexican and Filipino workers walked off their jobs at lettuce farms throughout the valley. Complaining of low wages and abysmal working conditions, they vowed to strike until their demands were ...
The Bracero Program (from the Spanish term bracero [bɾaˈse.ɾo], meaning "manual laborer" or "one who works using his arms") was a U.S. Government-sponsored program that imported Mexican farm and railroad workers into the United States between the years 1942 and 1964.
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In the late 1930s, the Libmans decided to consolidate the family business in Tuscola, Illinois, where broomcorn grew across hundreds of acres. ... Yet broomcorn and the Mexican farm workers, who ...
The El Monte Berry Strike brought to light the unique relationship between Mexican agricultural workers, Japanese growers, white land owners and local El Monte officials. The town of El Monte's land ownership arrangements in 1933 were heavily influenced by the California Alien Land Law of 1913 , which dictated who could own land and placed ...
Mexican government sources suggest over 300,000 were repatriated between 1930 and 1933, [4]: fn 20 while Mexican media reported up to 2,000,000 during a similar span. [ 6 ] : 150 After 1933, repatriation decreased from the 1931 peak, but was over 10,000 in most years until 1940.
United Farm Workers aims to empower migrant workers through nonviolent tactics to have liveable wages and safe working conditions. A strike against the grape growers in Delano, California, that ...