What the records say
- When
- 1903
- Kind
- Strike
- Coordinates
- 34.20° N, 119.18° W
- Description
- labor rights dispute in Oxnard, California
Placed at the town its description names, Oxnard.
1903 Oxnard strike
Labor rights dispute in Oxnard, California
The 1903 Oxnard strike was a labor rights dispute in the southern California coastal city of Oxnard between local landowners and the majority Japanese and Mexican labor force. The strike arrayed sugar beet growers, the American Beet Sugar Company, the grower-controlled Western Agricultural Contracting Company and local law enforcement against the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA), a union of betabeleros, or…
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Oxnard Strike of 1903 becomes the first time in U.S. history that a labor union is formed from members of different races”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page