7,000 Mexican farm workers walk out of the onion, berry and celery fields of Los Angeles county. There were many arrests and mass deportations. Due to the Depression and the continue strikes by Mexicans, Anglos began a campaign of terror and anti Mexicans claiming that they were taking the jobs of Americans and that they were in Welfare. By 1933 more than 50,000 were deported from Los Angeles alone. YMCA hosts first annual Mexican Youth Conference in San Pedro California.
Sheepherders strike in Texas.
Stuart Jamison wrote. The most effective agricultural labor unions were those organized among Mexicans. Over four hundred armedguards were recruited. Orange county was almost in a state of siege. 1,500 armed vigilantes break a cannery strike in Stockton, California.