Nov. 25, 1932: 91 years ago, Nov 25 1932, hundreds of striking Vacaville orchard workers, [...]

91 years ago, Nov 25 1932, hundreds of striking Vacaville orchard workers, many Filipino and Japanese, battled cops with sticks and rocks for over an hour, leaving several badly injured on both sides. The police had been attempting to escort a truck of scabs past the picket line

The workers, organized by the Communist Party’s Cannery & Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union, were striking several fields owned by Congressman and orchard heir Frank H. Buck over pay cuts, racist discrimination against non-white pruners, and other intolerable conditions

As in other California agricultural strikes of the period, women workers played a leading role in Vacaville. Despite a high degree of violence and racist agitation by police and vigilantes, the strike held firm for several months. It was broken in January
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