Flyer: The Frozen Food Strike / La Huelga y la Unidad

Most likely handed out by the strikers to agricultural workers in the fields, this flyer tells the reason for the strike, and outlines the need for solidarity among farmworkers and those working in frozen food processing, stating “We are united in our language and in our culture, and now we must unite in our struggles.”  The flyer also asks the farmworkers to call out scab workers.

Questions

  • What reasons might farmworkers support the striking cannery workers? 
  • Why are the strikers asking farmworkers to call out scabs? 
  • What reasons might farmworkers have to become scabs?

Text version of The Frozen Food Strike flyer below Download Text version of The Frozen Food Strike flyer below 

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“The Frozen Food Strike/La Huelga y la Unidad.”  Flyer. Frank Bardacke Watsonville Canneries Strike Records, larc.ms.0093, Labor Archives & Research Center, San Francisco State University.