California: Making it Happen
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- 1. Summer Clark
California: Making It Happen
- 2. Making it Happen
The depression hit California much later than it has the east
coast. California was able to almost escape the depression because
their entertainment, agriculture, and booming industries. After the
depression hit California, the migrant workers organized themselves
almost instantly. By 1959, the mob teamsters organized the very
first two unions in the state of California. California had a
problem, however, with maintaining the vast fields of agriculture.
It required only seasonal labor at planting/harvesting periods and
only a small handful of workers.
- 3. Making it Happen
Since there was not a lot of migrant work in one specific place in
California, the workers would pick up jobs of labor when they could
but then move on to the next town once their job was completed. The
Coast Seamen's Union was another organized union formed in San
Francisco to fight for better rights of the ship's crew. This union
sprung the dock strike. By 1909, the IWW became local in San
Francisco, Los Angeles, and other small cities throughout southern
California. Since the living conditions for migrant workers were
barely sustainable, the IWW helped organize a strike.