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Cantaloupes and Communists
Seller, Conrad | September 3, 1930 issue

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California's law against criminal syndicalism, inoperative since the post-war hysteria of 1924, has recently claimed nine more victims. On June 16 nine young leaders of the newly organized Agricultural Workers' Industrial League, affiliated with the Trade Union Unity League, were found guilty of conspiracy to interfere with the harvesting of the melon crop in Imperial Valley, thus disrupting constituted government and advocating criminal syndicalism. The picking of the cantaloupe crop is organized upon a piecework basis. The usual rate is 13 cents a crate. Most of the other vegetable pickers work at the rate of 35 cents an hour.

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CRIMINAL syndicalism; LABOR laws & legislation; HARVESTING; MUSKMELON; PIECEWORK; AGRICULTURAL laborers; LABOR unions; CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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