My grandma sent me a few letters in the 1990s detailing different times in her life. The snippets I am sharing here happened during the few years they lived in Salinas, California during the Depression. Better jobs in Salinas My grandparents, Joao Pacheco Smith and Anna Jackson, married in 1929 days before the stock market…
Tag: Labor Conditions
Friday Free Ebook: Labor Conditions in Hawaii
This book should be of interest to those who had relatives working on the sugar plantations in Hawaii. “Labor Conditions in Hawaii: a Letter from the Secretary of Labor transmitting the fifth annual report of the Commission of Labor Statistics on Labor Conditions in the Territory of Hawaii for the Year 1915”. Washington : Government…