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Title
Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work
Type
Still Image
Collection
Subject
Cotton--California
Place
United States--California--San Joaquin Valley.
Language
English
Classification
LCC: LC-USF34- 018391-E (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Government Publication Type
Federal
Authorized Access Point
Lange, Dorothea Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day's work