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Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930
The Imperial Valley lettuce strike of 1930 was a strike of worker against lettuce growers of California’s Imperial Valley
Beginning on January 1, 1930 Mexican and Filipino workers walked off their jobs at lettuce farms throughout the valley. Complaining of low wages and abysmal working conditions, they vowed to strike until their demands were met. However, almost exactly three weeks later the strike was called off. This was due mostly to the power of the growers within the Imperial Valley along with divisions within the organizations leading the strikers. This strike was also notable due principally that the workers were migrant workers from Mexico working on American farms and that there was a considerable Communist influence in the latter part of the strike which showed an openness of the American agricultural worker to Communist propaganda and leadership.
== Background ==
Beginning in 1928, agricultural workers in California began to unionize. The Imperial Valley Workers Union was formed in April 1928. Shortly after its founding, the union changed its name to the Mexican Mutual Aid Society.〔 The union was founded mainly due to the discontent of the agricultural workers employed on farms in California’s Imperial Valley. Their main grievances were against labor contractors who failed to pay them their full wages and even occasionally would withhold a week’s pay. This led to the union calling on the Mexican consul Carlos Ariza to settle the conflict with the employers.〔 Ariza prompted the union officials to form a society which could work on the issue of getting their members their fair wages and begin to redress and resolve the wage claims. Within a month of incorporation, the union signed up twelve hundred members, opened office in four Imperial Valley towns, and delivered its first petition to the growers via the Chamber of Commerce asking for a wage increase for cantaloupe workers.〔 The Mexican Mutual Aid Society would be the main driving force behind the Lettuce Strike and would lead the strike for the early portion in an attempt to obtain better working conditions and better pay for its Mexican members.
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