ThesisThe 1935 logging strike still matters today because it made unions stronger and proved that worker solidarity was a powerful tool. In 1935 during the Great Depression. Loggers of the Pacific Northwest Company in Humboldt County were working long hours with little pay and so they went on strike. Over 500 workers joined the strike in Humboldt County alone. The strike spread all along the California coast. Eventually the strike included over 30,000 workers. In the end the loggers got a raise, less hours and safer working conditions.
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"The redwood is the glory of the Coast Range. It extends along the western slope, in a nearly continuous belt about ten miles wide, from beyond the Oregon boundary to the south of Santa Cruz, a distance of nearly four hundred miles, and in massive, sustained grandeur and closeness of growth surpasses all the other timber woods of the world."-John Muir (John Muir also known as "John of the Mountains", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.)
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"No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time." -Richard Preston.(New Yorker writer)
Lucas Morace and Jacoby Coutant
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