A Bakersfield Central Labor Council committee collected and distributed over one hundred thousand dollars worth of clothes, food, and money to the strikers’ families. Much of this support arrived in caravans sent by the Los Angeles and San Francisco labor councils, including one in March 1948, with over three hundred cars and trucks. Victor Van Bourg, a teenaged apprentice painter, rode in a bus chartered by his Communist-controlled Hollywood Painters union local to the DiGiorgio picket lines. It was a formative experience for the young Van Bourg; years later, after he became an attorney, he volunteered his time doing legal work for the farmworker cause.

Teamster drivers and winery workers refused to cross Local 218 picket lines. The Retail Clerks union informed DiGiorgio that they would not handle his produce in Los Angeles, and the California State Labor Federation, AFL, contributed five hundred dollars a month to the strike and called for a consumer boycott of DiGiorgio products. The national AFL, thanks to a personal friendship between AFL president William Green and H.L. Mitchell, also pitched in, covering Hasiwar’s expenses.