Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

At Poso Land and Products, the farm superintendent got himself deputized, returned to the ranch, and promptly arrested 11 strikers for vagrancy.42 A general strike at harvest time against one of the state’s top cash crops meant whole enterprises could fail, whole banks. With so much at stake in October, a mortal feeling descended on the San Joaquin Valley: People were going to die.