Today in labor history Oct 10 4 strikers are killed and 6 wounded 8 growers were charged with murder

Omaha Steve

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Fri Oct-10-08 10:30 AM
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Today in labor history Oct 10 4 strikers are killed and 6 wounded 8 growers were charged with murder

October 10

Six days into a cotton field strike by 18,000 Mexican and Mexican-American workers in Pixley, Calif., two strikers are shot and six wounded; eight growers were indicted and charged with murder - 1933

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October 10, 1933 - About 18,000 cotton workers went on strike in Pixley, California. Four were killed before a pay hike was finally won.

Read more about the cotton strike and the lives of California farm workers in the 1930s at http://www.farmworkers.org/strugcal.html and http://clnet.ucla.edu/research/chavez/themes/ufw/history1.html

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blueknight

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Fri Oct-10-08 10:41 AM
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1. and you may

see this type of shit again in this country,steve

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