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Mexican Coffee Workers Form Union After Wage Struggle
About 50 female workers at the La Fortaleza coffee factory in Mexico City demanded higher pay after long 14 hour days earning as little as 25 cents daily. They joined the I W W and planned a legal wage claim and boycott to back their 3 month’s wages indemnity, signaling a new industrial union movement.
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Union de Testadores de Cafe del
Mexico
Salto del Agua
Mexico City
I. W. W. Hall
Ciro Eequirel
Board of Conciliation and Arbitration Office
Ta Fortaleza
I. W. W. Union