The cotton strike lasted more than three weeks. Its impact was felt not only in higher wages for the workers but also in the formation of the Associated Farmers the following year, a growers’ organization opposed to farm worker unionism. The CAWIU continued to organize until 1935, when much of its leadership was found guilty in a high-profile trial in Sacramento of criminal syndicalism. Several Mexican CAWIU leaders, including John Diaz and Francisco Medina, were deported. Pat Chambers and Caroline Decker served time in prison. Chambers became the unwilling model for one of the main characters in John Steinbeck’s fictional portrayal of farm labor strife, In Dubious Battle. In real life, after prison, he worked quietly as a union carpenter.