On February 1903 Oxnard had a strike involving Japanese workers and Mexican workers; they formed the Japanese Mexican Labor Association. They were on strike because the Western Agricultural Contracting Company was holding back wages and they did not want to have a subcontracting system because they will be force to pay double commission. The association recruited more than ninety percent of the workers during the sugar beet season. During this time the strike had a turning point when one of the strikers was killed, the death was blamed on the violence of the striker, the strikers have a different opinion. However, the association was not able to be successful in achieving it goals, but it was successful in uniting two races.
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