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1933 Berry Strike of El Monte, CA, background info
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japanese growers, mexican workers (anglos leased the land)
CAWIU: cannery and agricultural workers industrial union workers earned 9-20 c/hr, paid by how many berries the picked. initially, the workers were in a position of strength, the growers most need them there for the delicate harvest. they went to the bargainin table but rejected the offers since all their demands weren't met. considered communist |
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1933 Berry Strike of El Monte, CA, how they striked
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Appeal to Mexican consolate, Arnando Florez, he denounced their union for being communist and made his own, CUCOM. The workers joined CUCOM, it was undernmined, and the result was they waited too long and they wern't in power any longer
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how did mexico help the berry strikers
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mexican gov't supported the strikers, threatened to stop importing jap goods
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Louisa Moreno
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Blanca Rosa López Rodríguez
a leader in the United States labor movement and a social activist. She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, 1939 she worked as an organizer, worked with the AFL, organized strikes and bargains across the US, most famous pecan shelling the INS began deportatins against her in voluntary departure in 1950 |
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El Congreso
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uniting mexican american labor workers.
they wanted to let Americans know what mexicans had done for the US. by: latino studies in universities, correcting racial portrayals in media, biligual classes in schools and mexican american teachers |
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Pecan Strike, San Antonio, 1938
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organized by tenayuca. 90% women, many mex/amer.
made 6c/hr. UCAPAWA affilated with CIO In 1938, the employers tried to lower wages further, 6-8000 workers went on strike. 10 k particpated. the elected tenayuca to lead. but she was soon jailed for incinting communist agitations. the sent louisa morena to help, she made tenayuca step down because of her communist connections the women faced a great deal of violence by the local police, beaten, tear gas after 5 weeks on the line, mgmt agreed to federal laws at 35 c/hr, but they would up mechanizing pecan shelling and many women lost jobs, |
