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Workers sit on large crate on tracks, with vegetables spilling out, as another worker looks on. Black and white photo.
Workers unload beets from cars at the Oxnard sugar beet factory, in a photo taken between 1910 and 1920. As workers there sought reform and to unionize, they got an unexpected blow from an organization that ought to have been an ally: the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
Credit: National Photo Company Collection/Library of Congress