Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History. The twenty second
Speaker 1: of January and on the twenty second of January eighteen,
Speaker 1: twenty six members of the ahashem In Nation who were
Speaker 1: field hands at the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California
Speaker 1: refused work, engaging in what may have been the first
Speaker 1: farm worker strike in the state, which was then part
Speaker 1: of Mexico. Over one hundred workers gathered rose in rebellion
Speaker 1: and demanded that the local padre or priest be placed
Speaker 1: in stocks. They reportedly insulted the local captain of the
Speaker 1: guard and told him that if he didn't put the
Speaker 1: priest in stocks, then they would put him in instead.
Speaker 1: There was a long history of resistance by Native Americans
Speaker 1: to the missions and other colonizers before this point, so
Speaker 1: this might just have been the first reported work stoppage.
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