1936 Venice celery strike

1936 U.S. labor action June 2024 lyJune 2024 Illustrated Daily News - Japanese American workers return to harvest celery fields in Venice after going on strike, Los Angeles, 1936.jpg Venice celery fields, Los Angeles, 1936 (Illustrated Daily News via UCLA Digital) The 1936 Venice celery strike was a labor action in Venice, California (in Los Angeles County) that lasted from April 20, 1936 to May 27, 1936.4. Ethnic Solidarity or Interethnic Accommodation: The 1936 Venice Celery Strike 2022 Transborder Los Angeles 105–136 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520976931-007/html 2024-06-16 University of California Press 10.1525/9780520976931-007 978-0-520-97693-11938 Barry Raymond P. Federal Writers Project, Oakland, California Oriental and Mexican Labor Unions and Strikes in California Agriculture https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb88700929;NAAN=13030&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00092&toc.depth=1&toc.id=div00092&brand=calisphere 2024-06-16 Monographs Prepared for A Documentary History of Migratory Farm Labor in California, 1938 Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley (oac.cdlib.org) 27 A 1938 history of Asian-American and Latino/Hispanic labor action prepared by the Federal Writers' Project stated that the strike was called by CUCOM (es Confederación de Unión Campesinos y Obreros Mexicanos) in order to negotiate "higher wages and better hours." The strike was reportedly "attended by considerable violence." The strikers were Mexican American, Filipino American, and Japanese American farmworkers, organized as the Filipino Federated Workers Union, the American Agricultural Industrial Workers, and the Japanese Farm Workers Union of California. They were employed by Japanese American farmers who had no legal right to own their own land, which was held in the name of various banks (especially Bank of America) and leased to the resident alien farmers to get around the exclusion laws that prohibited Japanese American land ownership.Escobar Edward J. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520920781/html Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity: Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900–1945 University of California Press 1999 978-0-520-92078-1 Latinos in American Society and Culture, Latin American Studies Center, UCLA Berkeley, California en-us Chapter 5: The LAPD and Mexican American Workers, 1920–1940 10.1525/9780520920781 98023322 44965755 The "considerable violence" was mostly the work of the LAPD Red Squad, which "used brutal and violent tactics to punish strikers and their supporters". There was, however, an incident in Torrance on May 25, in which one young strikebreaker reported that he "was one of 25 men who had been brought to section from Chula Vista to replace striking celery workers" and had been "set upon by Mexicans and Filipinos".1936-05-25 Man Lays Beating to Celery Strike https://www.newspapers.com/article/news-pilot-man-lays-beating-to-celery-st/149461497/ 2024-06-17 News-Pilot 7 In his 1939 book Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California, journalist Carey McWilliams dubbed it "the backyard strike", because until this strike Angelenos had only heard about strike-related violence in distant parts of the vast state, whereas this strike took place in "vacant lots" in the southwestern section of Los Angeles County.McWilliams Carey Carey McWilliams (journalist) https://california.degruyter.com/view/title/555833 Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California University of California Press 2000 978-0-520-92518-2 Berkeley, California en-us XIV. The Rise of Farm Fascism 230–263 10.1525/9780520925182-016 99045099 881510062 1939 Much of that violence occurred in the San Joaquin Valley during a series of agricultural strikes that took place in 1933. The celery strike concluded with workers winning a modest wage increase and other concessions, in an agreement that was later renewed twice. See also 1933 El Monte berry strike Citrus Strike of 1936 History of the Japanese in Los Angeles History of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles Strikes in the United States in the 1930s Celery mosaic virus References Further reading Anthropology of Los Angeles: place and agency in an urban setting 2017 Lexington Books 978-1-4985-2854-2 Banh Jenny King Melissa Labor Immigration under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States Before World War II 2023 10.2307/jj.2430610 1984 Luqian Cheng University of California Press 978-0-520-31781-9 Bonacich Edna Chi Tsung East Asian Americans and political participation: a reference handbook 2005 ABC-CLIO 978-1-57607-290-5 Political participation in America Santa Barbara, Calif Lowenstein Norman https://books.google.com/books?id=-mZIAQAAMAAJ Strikes and Strike Tactics in California Agriculture: A History 1940 University of California, Berkeley en Modell John http://archive.org/details/economicspolitic00mode The economics and politics of racial accommodation: the Japanese of Los Angeles, 1900–1942 1977 University of Illinois Press Urbana, Illinois Japanese American history: an A-to-Z reference from 1868 to the present 1993 Facts on File 978-0-8160-2680-7 Niiya Brian New York Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) External links Understanding the History of Japanese-Mexican Relations and Nurturing Empathy Toward Others https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/61311/understanding-the-history-of-japanese-mexican-relations-and-nurturing-empathy-toward-others/ 2024-04-14 UC Press Blog en Category:1930s strikes in the United States Category:1936 in Los Angeles Category:1936 labor disputes and strikes Category:Asian-American–Hispanic and Latino American relations Category:Agriculture and forestry labor disputes in the United States Category:Agricultural labor in the United States Category:Agriculture in California Category:Filipino-American history Category:Hispanic and Latino American history Category:Japanese-American history Category:Labor disputes in California Category:Labor history of California Category:Venice, Los Angeles Category: Labor movement in California