3700875 Migrant field worker picking cotton in California, 1938 (b/w photo) by Lange, Dorothea (1895-1965); Private Collection; (add.info.: Migratory field worker picking cotton in San Joaquin Valley, California. These pickers are paid seventy-five cents per hundred pounds of picked cotton. Strikers organizing under CIO union (Congress of Industrial Organizations) are demanding one dollar. A good male picker, in good cotton, under favorable weather conditions, can pick about two hundred pounds in a day\'s work ).