Ex-Oklahoma farmer, one of the leaders in the strike of cotton pickers. Kern County, California. The growers set price of cotton at seventy-five cents per one hundred pounds picked, and the pickers refused to enter the fields. [Badges: CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) and 'Vote No on ' (refers to proposed anti-picketing law)].

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