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LABOR HISTORY TODAY

Lawrence Smoot | Published on 1/31/2025


12,000 pecan shellers in San Antonio, Tex. – mostly Latino women – walk off their jobs at 400 factories in what was to become a three-month strike against wage cuts. Strike leader Emma Tenayuca was eventually hounded out of the state. 

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