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A 100 Per-Cent American Strike
Somers, Lee | October 19, 1921 issue

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At the lower end of the San Joaquin Valley in California, where the Coast Range breaks down to the eastward into a tumble of weary brown hills overlooking the desert, 8,000 oil workers are enjoying their first strike. Oil production is stopped in the second largest field in the country and the State is marveling at the perfect organization of wage-earners who have taken over the economic and political control of whole districts, towns and even a county. Hundreds of ears and motor-cycles are at their disposal and a striker who was sergeant of marines in France has organized a signaling system of wigwags by day and fires by night.

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STRIKES & lockouts -- Miners; STRIKES & lockouts -- Petroleum industry; WAGES; DEMAND (Economic theory); PRODUCTION (Economic theory); LABOR disputes; CALIFORNIA; UNITED States
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