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The Joads on Strike
McWilliams, Carey | November 4, 1939 issue

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This article focuses on strike of cotton pickers throughout the San Joaquin Valley, California. Cotton pickers in general are not organized in California. Every effort was made by the workers to avoid provocation. Workers have been evicted from cabins; the usual fake "plants" have been carried out, such as setting fire to cotton trucks and endeavoring to fix responsibility on the workers and the usual arrests have been made. Indications are that he strike will be settled, with the growers paying $1 a hundred. Had they offered this rate, which they can well afford to pay, at the outset of the season, there would have been no strike.

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STRIKES & lockouts; COTTON picking; COTTON farmers; WAGES; LABOR movement; SAN Joaquin Valley (Calif.); CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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