Leaders of the strike, including Rose Pesotta and other members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), organized the strike to be culturally orientated in order to include Mexican immigrant workers to fight for union recognition in the garment industry.
By classifying them as unskilled labor, employers were able to pay them less, allowing for Mexican women to take up 75% of the clothing and needle trades in Los Angeles.
[1]:148 By 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the New Deal program in order to reconstruct the nations economy by creating opportunities for the working class.
Often ignoring the inexperienced Mexican workers in the dress industries who also desired for better working conditions and wage increase.
[1]:153 Rose Pesotta along with other members of the ILGWU such as labor leader, Anita Andrade Castro helped organized Mexican women by raising a consciousness of the benefits of unionism.
Their demands included union recognition, 35 hours a week, minimum wage; eliminate homework, and safer working conditions.
Due to the violence the Los Angeles Police Department got involved and tried to put the strike into a halt by arresting 50 of the strikers.
For those who took part of the strike the ILGWU and some community members helped their economic hardships by donating groceries to striker's families.