Santa Clara cherry strike of 1933

The main overview of the events in Santa Clara was an agricultural strike by cherry pickers against the growers or employers.

A reaction to the agricultural strikes within California was met received by the law enforcement as well as the press who took the side of the growers.

Cherry growers had received economic losses in the previous years, thus led them to look for better prospects and to shut down any strikes.

The pickers who joined the strike were met with opposition from the authorities armed with tear gas to suppress the workers.

[1][4] June 24, 1933; many of the major growers within California gave into the demands of the picketers, as the fear of losing their crops was apparent.

One agricultural grower, Charles Derby, gathered a movement and organized the county in the creation of the Associated Farmers of California to combat communism and labor unionization.

[1] A significant importance to the results of the strike was that through the organization of all the laborers, this was a form of self-empowerment to a group that individually was powerless.

[6] The historical significance to the Santa Clara Cherry Strike was beyond that of just the individual workers, but was influenced by the government and the context of the time.