Many workers come out of the fields, including Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Arabic, African Americans and Anglos. A picket is knocked down by a grower's car, others are threatened by growers and foremens wielding guns. Pickets puzzled by growers' cars are discouraged by police when they attempt to file complaints, the unions stress policy of non-violence. Bonafide labor disputes have been certified by the State Department of Employment at over a dozen ranches. Growers make radio appeals in Bakersfield and begin going as far as Los Angeles and San Francisco in search of scab workers.
Aid begins to pour in for strikers from all over the state.
Growers begin recruiting scabs as far away as El Paso, making false promises regarding wages. Several growers are rumored ready to sign contracts, but are under pressure from big growers and outside financial power groups. An AWOC organizer is brutally beaten, and is able to file a complaint against his grower assailant only after going to the State Attorney General's Office. October 17 Many grapes are rotting in the fields, and table grapes converted to wine. Strikers are told by the Kern County Sheriff's Office they will be arrested for shouting to workers in the fields - often their only way of informing them that a strike exists.