0 a factory where food is put into metal containers
One day they stopped at a fish cannery between highway and river and asked for work.
Peering into the cannery, they saw men and women working in a strong-smelling steam, cleaning and cutting up the fish that passed them on an endless belt, making it ready for others to pack in cans.
The fruits and vegetables of California brought into existence innumerable canneries.
Thousands and thousands of ocean salmon are caught along the northern coast and taken to the canneries.
Replacing them on the cannery line were women and boys aged 12-15, who had lower qualifications but who also received lower pay.
A law of 1939 slightly improved the situation of cannery women.
The tendency to employ women in fish canneries grew throughout the first third of twentieth century.
