San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle article below provides and outside view of the canneries strike and the mood of the city.  It includes interviews from Smiley Verduzco from Watsonville Canning and a couple that both work the cannery, as well as a local pastor and social worker.

Questions

  • What is highlightened in this article about the strike?
  • Do you notice any differences in perspective in DelVecchio's article compared to Schilling's article in the Register Pajaronian?
  • Do you notice any differences in tone in DelVecchio's article compared to Garcia's article in the People's World?

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DelVecchio, Rich.  "Watsonville Divided by Bitter Strike."  San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Dec. 1985, pgs. 1 & 4.