In the Stockton Cannery Strike, also known as “the Spinach Riot,” members of the Agricultural Workers Organization and the California Processors and Growers waged a bloody battle over control of canneries in northern San Joachin Valley, California.
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“The Spinach Riot” (video) 1937
National Archives, Records of the U.S. Senate