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Newspaper clippings for Onion Strike (1979)

Violence feared in Onion Strike in Willacy County

Texas Farmworkers Union launched an onion pickers strike on April 4, 1979, on the farm of Charles Wetegrove, son of Edward Raymond, founder of the city of Raymondville. As with previous farmworker strikes, local law enforcement was brought in by…

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