Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
Agricultural strike by 8,000 Mexican and Filipino workers in Imperial Valley, California, spreads with plans to include Chinese, Japanese, Negro, and white laborers. Strikers demand 25% wage increase, end to contract labor and piece work, better housing, no victimization, and recognition of job committees.
Clipping
OCR Quality
Full Text
Plan to Draw in All Orientals, Negroes
BRAWLEY, Cal., Jan. 6.-Three organizers of the Trade Union Unity League are here in the strike of the 8,000 Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers which has tied up harvesting in the Imperial Valley. The strike is spreading.
The strikers, who walked out against intolerable conditions and starvation wages, are remaining solid. They received great encouragement from the action of workers imported from other California cities, in refusing to scab.
Efforts are being made to draw into the strike all Chinese and Japanese, Negro and white American as well as Mexican and Filipino agricultural laborers, who are bitterly exploited in the horrid Imperial Valley.
The strikers are demanding a 25 per cent wage increase; abolition of the vicious contract labor system; abolition of piece work; better housing; no victimization and also demand recognition of the workers' job committees.
What sub-type of article is it?
What keywords are associated?
What entities or persons were involved?
Where did it happen?
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Brawley, Cal., Imperial Valley
Event Date
Jan. 6
Key Persons
Outcome
strike spreading; strikers remaining solid; encouragement from non-scab workers; demands for wage increase, abolition of contract labor and piece work, better housing, no victimization, recognition of job committees
Event Details
Three organizers of the Trade Union Unity League are in Brawley for the strike of 8,000 Mexican and Filipino agricultural workers tying up harvesting in Imperial Valley. Strikers walked out against intolerable conditions and starvation wages. Efforts to include Chinese, Japanese, Negro, and white American laborers who are exploited.