Throughout 1931 and early 1932 the party’s approach to farmworkers remained much like that in 1930—waiting for a spontaneous strike, usually because of wage cuts, and showing up to provide support and try to take leadership. Caroline Decker, centrally involved in those efforts, recalled, “Two-thirds of the strikes we learned about through the newspapers.” The initiative came from the workers, she explained, because “we didn’t have any forces; we didn’t have any training. We didn’t have any people. . . . Those things would have happened without us. It just so happened that we were on hand, and we wanted the Communist Party to get credit for it.” Two such instances were strikes by Santa Clara Valley cannery workers in July 1931 and by pea pickers near Half Moon Bay (on the coast south of San Francisco) in early 1932. Both were failures.20