And in a show of class solidarity, they were joined by Mexican-American workers who refused to allow the California grape growers to instill a racist division among the workers.Īfter several years of strikes and boycotts, Delano grape workers declared victory. Faced with an average annual income of $1,400 and with wages falling under the federal minimum wage, the workers believed that they had nothing left to lose and maintained the strike, per History of Yesterday. The Volunteer writes that many of the strikers were older and single Filipino men, known as Manongs, who remained unmarried due to anti-miscegenation laws.
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