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More than 47,500 farmworkers participated in the 1933 strikes. Twenty-four of these strikes, involving approximately 37,500 workers, were under the leadership of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU). Two strikers were shot and killed in Pixley during the October Cotton Strike.
Sources vary as to numbers involved in the cotton strikes, with some sources claiming 18,000 workers [4] and others just 12,000 workers, [5] [b] 80% of whom were Mexican. [4] In the cotton strikes of 1933, striking workers were evicted from company housing while growers and managerial staff were deputized by local law enforcement.
In the early 1800s, this flow of laborers from Baja California had largely stopped, and the missions relied on converts from local tribes. By 1806, over 20,000 Mission Indians were "attached" to the California missions. As missions were expected to become largely self-sufficient, farming was a critically important Mission industry.
California is one of the top five states in water use for livestock. Water withdrawals for livestock use in California were 101–250 million US gallons (380,000,000–950,000,000 L)/day in 2010. [194] Saudi Arabian companies and individuals have bought land here and in Arizona to benefit from subsidized water. [195]
In the mid-1870s, state Granges in the Midwest were successful in passing state laws that regulated the rates they could be charged by railroads and grain warehouses. The birth of the federal government's Cooperative Extension Service , Rural Free Delivery , and the Farm Credit System were largely due to Grange lobbying.
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As many as 79 people were killed and over 550 injured in the protests, [7] which were only ended with the deployment of the army and the re-institution of the subsidies. 1981 Moroccan riots also known as the Casablanca bread riots; Tunisian bread riots took place in December 1983 to January 1984. Moroccan Intifada of 1984, also known as the ...