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

the AFC recognized that this was also its big chance to vanquish the Reds for good. Associated Farmers officials assembled all the information they had in the state on the defendants and forwarded it to McAllister. They even sent up the Imperial County DA, who unlike McAllister had experience prosecuting syndicalism, to walk him through it.63 The AFC took such an active role that McCallister shouted the organization out by name in his closing statement.