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Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Here in California, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta are household names, as is the organization that they founded, the National Farm Workers Association. But the push for the rights of agricultural workers in California did not start with them. The year 1933 saw an unprecedented amount of labor strikes across the state, involving nearly 50,000 farmworkers, the majority of whom were Mexican and Mexican-American.
The workers, which were organized by unions such as the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU) and the Confederación de Uniones de Campesinos y Obreros Mexicanos (CUCOM), fought for improved wages and conditions. This document contains a list of 13 petitions from CUCOM to the Japanese Growers of Los Angeles County and include requests for a minimum wage of 40 cents per hour and equal pay for women.
So, from the National Archives at Riverside, viva los trabajadores y viva los Mejicanos americanos!
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