October 10 - Murder in the Fields

10/10/2025 1 min Episodio 2654
October 10 - Murder in the Fields

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Episode Synopsis

On this day in Labor History the year was 1933. That was the day that forty armed cotton growers shot at a group of striking workers in the small town of Pixley, California.  That year a wave of labor unrest had swept through the fields of California’s agriculture industry. Nearly 50,000 workers participated in strikes throughout the year.