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The San Antonio Express-News is a daily newspaper in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1865. It is owned by the Hearst Corporation and has offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas. The Express-News is the third largest newspaper in the state of Texas, with a daily circulation of nearly 100,000 copies in 2016. [3]
March 28, 1912; May 7, 1912 San Diego, CA - free speech demonstrations: 2 In the San Diego free speech fight, Michael Hoy died after a police assault in jail, [58] [59] and Joseph Mikolash, was killed by police in the IWW headquarters in San Diego on May 7. [60] April 18, 1912 – July 1913 Kanawha County, WV Coal mining Strike
During the 1930s, 40% of the pecan crop in the United States was grown in Texas, with half of that being produced within a 250-mile radius of San Antonio. [1] [2] Described as the "world's largest pecan shelling center", between 10,000 and 20,000 workers, primarily Mexican American women, worked as shellers, removing the hard outer shell of pecans grown and collected in the region. [3]
Many are citizens of the US, and day labor is often a transition to full-time work. [10]: 1–2 Unorganized day labor creates problems for day laborers: 1 in 3 corner day laborers have experienced theft of wages in the past two months and 1 in 5 experienced a serious worksite injury in the past year.
Cash Five is a daily-draw game. Sales for this game (which replaced a similarly named game, Cash 5) began on July 29, 2002. [5]: 2002 On Sept. 23, 2018, Cash Five relaunched with a new matrix, better overall odds of winning and guaranteed prizes, including a $25,000 top prize. The first drawing with the new rules in place was on Sept. 24, 2018.
The second approach was an organizing strategy that allowed day laborers to come together to have more political inclusion and be able to represent themselves in front of governmental officials, law enforcement, and local stakeholders. In the late 1990s, organizers from the different centers were exchanging strategies and organizing practices ...
Joan Ginther was an American four-time lottery winner. She first won the lottery in 1993, when she won $5.4 million in Lotto Texas (equivalent to about $11.4M in 2023). Her next win came in 2006 when she won $2 million in the Holiday Millionaire scratch-off.
The Farah strike (1972–1974) was a labor strike by the employees of Farah Manufacturing Company, a clothing company in El Paso, Texas and New Mexico.The strike started at the Farah plant in San Antonio in 1972 when the Hispanic women, called Chicanas, led by Sylvia M. Trevino, at the company demanded a labor union formation to fight for better working conditions.