Meanwhile the WACC attempted to recruit more workers from Los Angeles and San Francisco. The company paid their railroad fare to Oxnard. But like the San Francisco iron molders who, during their 1864 strike, learned of their employers’ long-distance scab recruitment and shipped organizers to meet and reason with them, the JMLA sent groups of strikers up the tracks. They boarded the train along the way, and as one newspaper reported, “by the time these men reached Oxnard they were on the side of the union.”