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Spanish Pruners Strike 1932 Spanish Pruners Strike 1932
2008

From 1911 to 1913, eight thousand Spanish families immigrated from Spain to the Hawaiian Islands. Promises of land and education were broken, nearly all continued to California, many would find their way to the fields and orchards of the San Joaquin Valley. In 1932 they went on strike. With the help of the IWW they took on the establishment, riots, beatings, lynching and the courts finally stopped them in California's first labor dispute in the fields. [...]


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Pruners' Strike still evokes unease / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [141] [WAYITWAS-2002-141]
All communities have darker episodes in their history. For Vacaville, one of these periods occurred during November and December of 1932 and into early 1933. Mentioning the Vacaville Pruners' Strike, also known as the Vacaville Riots, still evokes unease in many residents, though 70 years have passed since then.
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Wanderlust strikes a son of early Vacaville / Goerke-Shrode, Sabine [213] [WAYITWAS-2004-213]
This is the final column on the family of Luzena and Mason Wilson and their four children. The information is based on the research by Fern Henry in her book "My Checkered Life: Luzena Stanley Wilson in Early California."
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