Tag: tomato cannery
San Benito Foods roof collapses; none injured
The San Benito Foods tomato processing warehouse on Hawkins Street suffered a “catastrophic collapse” of the roof Wednesday, but no injuries or ongoing danger...
Cannery workers go on strike
With the start of the canning season less than a month away, San Benito Foods employees went on strike Friday, June 23.
About 50 workers...
Casa de Fruta, an American success story
In the early years following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, California experienced a time of creativity, hard work and entrepreneurship. With the Gold Rush long past, people looked for other ways to succeed—and some succeeded spectacularly!
