[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 121 (Friday, July 14, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 SAN ANTONIO'S LEGACY OF LABOR STRIKES

  (Mr. CASAR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CASAR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 110th 
anniversary of the Alamo Iron Works strike in San Antonio, Texas. Back 
then, those organizers were fighting for better wages and working 
conditions, like workers are today. They started a tradition of labor 
strikes in the summer in the city of San Antonio.
  Mr. Speaker, 20 years later in 1933, the Finck Cigar strike began 
when 400 young Mexican-American women went on strike for better working 
conditions and won.
  In 1936, garment workers at the Dorothy Frocks Company in San Antonio 
began striking for higher wages. They went to jail that August of 1936, 
and still won.
  The next summer, in 1937, 80 workers at the San Antonio Laundry 
Company walked off the job. They demanded a 9-hour workday instead of 
14 hours and won.
  Remember, when rightwing extremists pass antiworker bills, they are 
arguing that their bills are trying to take us to the good old days of 
Texas past. We know the truth: The history of San Antonio and the 
history of Texas is a history or workers organizing and winning.

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