The document discusses labor and unions in California during the Great Depression and beyond. It describes how the Depression came later to California due to its diversified economy. It discusses the rise of labor unions in the mid-19th century and key figures who established better laws for workers. As economic conditions worsened, there were increasing labor strikes, protests, and riots. The largest agricultural strike involved 10,000 cotton pickers organized by the CAWIU union in the San Joaquin Valley. The Depression had many impacts through rising tensions and actions from groups like the Wobblies and Mexican American workers.

1. CALIFORNIA
MAKING IT HAPPEN:
LABOR THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION
& BEYOND

2. MAKING IT HAPPEN
 The Great Depression and California: it came late to
California because its economy was diversified.
 Mid-19th century: a spurt of labor unions come to be, and
continue to flourish
 Frank Roney, Burnette Haskell, Andrew Furuseth, Alfred
Fuhrman, and even Woodrow Wilson had hands in
establishing better labor laws for manual labor workers.
 Labor strikes and riots - especially during smaller
"depressions" that affected the economy before the big one
hit - led many people to lose their lives.

3. MAKING IT HAPPEN
 tensions mount! The Wobblies (IWW, or Industrial Workers of
the World) carve quite the niche for themselves in the labor-
activist landscape
 1927: Mexican American filed workers grew frustrated. They
organized the Confederation of Mexican Workers to protest the
conditions under which they were treated
 The Criminal Syndicalism Act, passed in 1919 - due, in part,
because of the behavior of the Wobblies - did not tolerate such
protests or strikes.

4. MAKING IT HAPPEN
 Depression strikes: California is inundated midwesterners
looking for work
 Riots and protests worsened as the working conditions
worsened.
 The largest single agricultural strike: ten thousand cotton
pickers in the San Joaquin Valley, led namely by CAWIU
(Canners and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union )
organizers Patrick Chambers, Sam Darcy, and Caroline
Decker
 Union after Union, protest after protest, the Great
Depression had so many varying affects on the country.