Sugar Cane Unionization Eliminated for Fifty Years After Thibodaux

In the aftermath of the Thibodaux Massacre, no organizing effort among Louisiana sugar cane workers succeeds for five decades. Surviving strikers who return to the fields accept wages below the $1.25 per day they struck for. Planters reinstate debt peonage systems. Militia commanders who directed the massacre face no legal consequences and several are celebrated locally. The massacre's effect on labor organizing is total and deliberate.