Photograph
Huelgista in Cambria
| A Huelgusta (striker) against Fall River Canning Company with Obreros Unidos (United Workers), standing with a crowd. She is wearing round earrings, a black pin-striped jacket and a black beret. Pinned on her jacket is a United Farmerworkers (UFW) button with its eagle symbol and the message, "Viva la Causa" (Long Live the Cause)/Solidarity Forever." On her beret are two buttons, with the same button on the right and a button with a clenched fist on the left. Grape boycotts in Wisconsin were organized by the local farm-worker labor union, Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. Huelguista en Cambria Una huelguista contra la compañía Fall River Canning Company con Obreros Unidos, está parada entre una multitud. Está vistiendo aretes redondos, una chaqueta negra con rayas, y una boina negra. En su chaqueta trae un botón de United Farmerworkers (UFW) con el símbolo de la águila y el mensaje "Viva la Causa"/"Solidaridad para Siempre " ("Solidarity Forever"). Tiene dos botones en su boina, con el mismo mensaje en el botón a la derecha y el botón a la izquierda con la imagen de un puño. Las huelgas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. |
| Image ID: | 90237 |
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| Creation Date: | 1969 |
| Creator Name: | Giffey, David |
| City: | Cambria |
| County: | Columbia |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | South Madison oral history project and migrant farmworker photographs, 1966-1971, 1999-2000 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | digital file |
| Original Format Number: | 1114000030 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5968 X 7888 pixels |
| Information about Obreros Unidos from and photograph published in: Salas, Jesus and Giffey, David. "Lucha por la justicia: Movimiento de los trabajadores migrantes en Wisconsin = Struggle for Justice: The Migrant Farm Worker Labor Movement in Wisconsin." David Giffey, Photos by. Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin Labor History Society; 1998. 15 p., and the Wisconsin Labor History website. |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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