• The Salinas California lettuce strike of 1934 ran from August 27 to September 24, 1934, in the Salinas Valley of California. This strike of lettuce cutters...
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    Korea (2018) Salinas Valley Salinas lettuce strike of 1934 United Farm Workers John Steinbeck "Community Profile - Visitors". City of Salinas, California...
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  • Watsonville riots (category History of racism in California)
    carried out a successful strike in Salinas for better treatment. Such labor actions were repeated in the Salinas Lettuce Strike of 1934 and in 1936. In addition...
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  • Dearborn, Michigan 1934 – Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1934 – Auto-Lite strike, April 4 – June 3, the "Battle of Toledo" riot...
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    Throughout the history of labor in the United States, many workers have gone on strike. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the predecessor organizations...
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  • Ax Handle Saturday, also known as the Jacksonville riot of 1960, was a racially motivated attack in Hemming Park (since renamed James Weldon Johnson Park)...
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  • or Rebellion) broke out in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco on the night of September 27, 1966, after San Francisco Police Department (SFPD)...
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  • focused on the Imperial Valley Strike of 1935. The committee heard testimony on the violence in the 1934 lettuce strike, attacks on attorneys, vigilantism...
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    Elaine Black Yoneda (category Members of the Communist Party USA)
    activities such as the Salinas Lettuce Strike, National Scottsboro Week and Spanish Civil War relief. She ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1939...
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    as Salinas and Monterey. Watonsville's present city charter was adopted on February 16, 1960. In 1985, cannery workers in Watsonville went on strike for...
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  • unmarketable heads to 2%. Lettuce drop is another resilient disease of the lettuce plant. It can be found in all lettuce-growing regions of the U.S. and is able...
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  • Joaquin Valley cotton strike. In the 1936 Salinas lettuce strike, vigilante violence shocked the nation. Again, in the spring of 1938, about three hundred...
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