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Depression Era: 1930s: “Bloody Thursday” & Other Labor Strikes

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Salinas Lettuce Strike. 1936. Otto Hagel. Gelatin silver print. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Paul S. Taylor.

This is a photograph of agricultural growers and law enforcement during the Salinas Lettuce Strike of 1936. In that year 3,200 members of the Fruit and Vegetable Workers Union walked out of the Salinas-Watsonville lettuce sheds in a protest for better wages and benefits.

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