césar estrada chávez was the male chicano leader who worked to unionize agricultural workers.
césar estrada chávez was the male chicano leader who worked to unionize agricultural workers.
who was the male chicano leader who worked to unionize agricultural workers?
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the agricultural workers organization, a subsidiary of the industrial workers of the world, as part of its continuing nationwide push to unionize agricultural workers, took up the workers' cause through the local 20221 in san joaquin county. local 20221 was chartered through the american federation of labor in may 1936 and in march 1937 was authorized by the stockton central labor council to start organizing cannery workers, a move not sanctioned by the state federation, but nevertheless undertook to head off both the international longshoremen's association which they considered too radical and their rival, the congress of industrial organizations. this left a bitterly divided, partially organized, labor movement at odds with a militant business association, the california producers and growers, determined to block unionization at any cost. all parties viewed stockton as the key battleground for control of california's multimillion-dollar agricultural industry.
stockton cannery strike of 1937