On This Day and Working Class History. The twenty second of January and on the twenty second of January eighteen, twenty six members of the ahashem In Nation who were field hands at the San Juan Capistrano Mission in California refused work, engaging in what may have been the first farm worker strike in the state, which was then part of Mexico. Over one hundred workers gathered rose in rebellion and demanded that the local padre or priest be placed
in stocks. They reportedly insulted the local captain of the guard and told him that if he didn't put the priest in stocks, then they would put him in instead. There was a long history of resistance by Native Americans to the missions and other colonizers before this point, so this might just have been the first reported work stoppage.
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