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'''Standard Fruit Company''' (now [[Dole plc]]) was established in the [[United States]] in 1924 by the [[Vaccaro brothers]]. Its forerunner was started in 1899, when [[Sicily|Sicilian]] [[Arberesh]] [[immigrant|immigrants]] Joseph, Luca and Felix Vaccaro, together with Salvador D'Antoni, began importing bananas to [[New Orleans]] from [[La Ceiba]], [[Honduras]]. By 1915, the business had grown so large that it bought most of the ice factories in New Orleans in order to refrigerate its banana ships, leading to its president, Joseph Vaccaro, becoming known as the "Ice King".

Along with the [[United Fruit Company]], Standard Fruit played a significant role in the governments of Honduras and other [[Central America]]n countries, which became known as "[[banana republic|banana republics]]" due to the high degree of control which the fruit companies held over the nations.

In 1926, the company changed its name from Standard Fruit Company to '''Standard Fruit & Steamship Company'''. Between 1964 and 1968, the company was acquired by the [[Castle & Cooke]] Corporation, which also acquired [[James Dole]]'s Hawaiian Pineapple Company (HAPCO) around the same time. In 1991, Castle & Cooke was renamed [[Dole Food Company]]. Castle & Cooke Inc, a [[real estate]] company, was spun off in 1995 and, following a 2000 management buyout, is now privately held.

==1954 Honduras Strike==

In 1954 there was a [[General strike of 1954 (Honduras)|general strike in Honduras]] against the Standard Fruit company among others. A detailed timeline can be seen below:<ref>((cite web |last1=Bucheli |first1=Marcelo |last2=Read |first2=Ian |title=United Fruit Company Chronology |url=https://www.unitedfruit.org/chron.htm |website=United Fruit Historical Society |access-date=12 January 2023))</ref>

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|text=HONDURAS:
May 5. The workers of the United Fruit Company go on strike demanding higher wages and are followed by the Standard Fruit workers. This strike paralyzes all banana operations and peaks with 25,000 striking workers (around 15% of all the country's labor force)

May 7: United Fruit manager J. F. Aycock declares that the company would not negotiate as long as the workers are on strike. That day, the strike expands to La Ceiba, Standard Fruit center of operations. Contrary to United Fruit, Standard offers to negotiate with striking workers.

May 9. The American ambassador in Honduras says that the country's strike had been inspired by Guatemalan communists. In addition, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles suggests that Guatemala Arbenz's government might be behind the Honduran strike.

By the second week of May 11,000 Standard Fruit Company employees join the strike. Simultaneously, laborers in others sector of the economy go on strike too, including miners, brewers, and textile workers.

May 16: The strikers present their "pliego de peticiones" to manager Aycock in La Lima. They quote the Universal Declarations of the Rights of Man and demand an increase in wages. At the same time, the workers of Coca-Cola in La Ceiba and Puerto Cortes strike.

Shortly after the protests began, the Honduran President Manuel Galvez expels two Guatemalan consuls charging them of instigation.

May 18: Standard Fruit opens negotiations with the workers under governmental arbitration. The company agrees to increase wages and improve working conditions, making this the first time in Honduran history that a private corporation negotiates a collective agreement. The workers committed themselves to go back to work on May 21.

May 21: After the Standard Fruit workers go back to work, the United Fruit workers harden their position. The number of strikers increases to 100,000 United Fruit.
))

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
*Thomas L. Karnes, "Tropical Enterprise: The Standard Fruit & Steamship Company in Latin America", Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978

==External links==
* [http://www.unitedfruit.org United Fruit Historical Society]
* [http://www.dole.com/ Dole Food Company, Inc. website]


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[[Category:Dole plc]]
[[Category:Defunct agriculture companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Agriculture in Hawaii]]
[[Category:Banana production]]
[[Category:Pineapple production]]
[[Category:Business in Hawaii]]
[[Category:Defunct companies based in Hawaii]]
[[Category:American companies established in 1924]]
[[Category:Food and drink companies established in 1924]]
[[Category:Food and drink companies disestablished in 1968]]
[[Category:1924 establishments in Louisiana]]
[[Category:1968 disestablishments in Louisiana]]
[[Category:1968 mergers and acquisitions]]

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