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This 1935 book by Herbert Solow, titled "Union-Smashing In Sacramento: The Truth About the Criminal Syndicalism Trial," outlines the 1934-1935 Associated Farmers "conspiracy" against agricultural union leaders, including Pat Chambers, Jack Warnick, Norman Mini, and many others. In 1935, Associated Farmers successfully took multiple union activists to trial and secured the imprisonment of eight members. During this time, the United States was under a wave of anti-Communist fear, known as the Red Scare. Taking advantage of this fear, the legal team of the Associated Farmers used the union activists' association with the Communist Party as a way to pin them down for the crime of "criminal syndicalism." The purpose of this book was twofold: to raise awareness of the unlawful attempt by the Associated Farmers to squash union activism; and, to gain support for the National Sacramento Appeal Committee's petition for the release of the eight imprisoned activists.
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