On this day, 24 September 1934, the month-old Salinas lettuce strike ended after workers won concessions. The strike of agricultural workers in the Filipino Labor Union faced massive repression from racist mobs and armed vigilantes, however they held out and won a pay increase and union recognition.
Pictured: armed strikebreakers in Salinas, 1936
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