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California Labor Puzzle

Michaela Reaves

A Labor History of California in a scavenger hunt format. This puzzle uses the internet to discover answers to labor history questions. These answers then complete the crossword. Based on an earlier Labor Timeline from Calpedia in 2009. All answers of more than one word run together with no extra spacing.

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5.What industry were 31% of the Mexicans in Los Angeles employed by in 1930?
10.In 1867 San Francisco unions received one of these
11.Which Pulitzer prize winning author brought attention to the plight of the Okies and Arkies?
15.In 1869, what were the Japanese immigrants brought in to establish? (two words)
18.Who led the United Farm Workers Organization Committee in 1965, which got the Agricultural Labor Relations Act passed?
19.What worker group was omitted from the National Labor Relations Act in 1935?
20.The number of active unions by 1886 (two words):
21.Which group led a free speech fight in San Diego in 1912? (abbreviation)
23.This non-violent tactic helped to achieve a law which allowed public worker collective bargaining.
24.Many of these people died from foreign disease and forced labor in the 18th century. (two words)
26.On October 1, 1910, a supposed ________________destroyed the Los Angeles Time building.
28.On June , 1975, what did Governor Jerry Brown sign? (abbreviation)
29.As a part of Upton Sinclair's campaign for governor, he launched the EPIC_______ program. (abbreviation)
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1.What was boycotted in 1975 against the Delano growers?
2.What program repatriated 3.5. million Mexicans back to Mexico between 1950 and 1954? (two words)
3.California was the ________ state to grant women the right to vote.
4.In 1948 growers persuaded the federal government to bring in Mexican workers to work the fields. This program was called the ___________ program.
6.Howard Sperry and Nick Bordoise were killed on this day in 1934 (two words).
7.With whom did the government try to replace a braceros during the summer of 1965 for a wage of $1.40 an hour?
8.In 1869 which labor group was founded by a group of Philadelphia tailors? (three words)
9.In 1869, quartz miners in what area went on strike when their employers tried to make them use more dangerous materials. (two words)
12.Which governor intervened in the dispute between the teamsters and draymen in San Francisco?
13.As a photographer ______________________ (two words) captured the distress of the Depression era migrants.
14.The first union workers to establish a union in Los Angeles, which only lasted a year, were ________._
16.How many years did it take the U.S. Supreme Court to find the California Criminal Syndicalism Act of 1919 unconstitutional?
17.Near what city the Durst farm was located?
21.In the 1870's what group of people made up the majority of San Francisco's work force?
22.What is the Spanish term for the label that undocumented workers were given?
25.What did Governor Pat Brown sign into law on April 16, 1959? (abbreviation)
27.In 1900, mill workers in San Francisco had whose support in demanding an eight-hour day?

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