Biography
Francisco was a leader in the 1933 cotton strike arrested on October 10, the day of the Pixley killings.
The June 24 Pixley report in the July 9 Western Worker identifies FranciscoMedina as a leader in the 1933 cotton strike, arrested October 10 on the day of the Pixley killings. He was held in Visalia, Tulare County for five months and then Fresno for one-and-a-half months pending deportation, which the report says actually occurred June 21, 1934, to Mexico. It alleges officials offered release if he gave up the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union, which he refused. These reported durations are preserved as contemporary estimates, without forcing them into a continuous exact-day total. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westernworker/1934/v3-n27-31-jul-1934.pdf#page=4
