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Stilwell Hall was an immense, 52,000-square-foot (4,800 m 2) building that stood on a precipice at the edge of the Pacific on the west side of California Highway 1 at Monterey Bay, California, just across from the former Fort Ord military installation.
[1] [a] The strikes are grouped together because most of them were organized by the CAWIU. Strike actions began in August among cherry, grape, peach, pear, sugar beet, and tomato workers, and culminated in a number of strikes against cotton growers in the San Joaquin Valley in October. The cotton strikes involved the largest number of workers.
As a collective, the VPA and FLU saw an opportunity to force the local growers into bargaining. On 27 August 1934, they began the Salinas lettuce strike with a coalition of primarily white and Filipino workers in Monterey County. [13] Of the approximately 7,000 workers who became involved in the strike, almost half were Filipinos.
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Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
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History of: Monterey County, California; Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. E. Events in Monterey County, California (1 C ...
The Kohler strike lasted for 11 years from 1954 to 1965, and has a legacy still being felt today.