Photograph
Crowd Listening at Wautoma Rally
| A crowd of migrant workers listening to speakers at an Obreros Unidos (United Workers) rally in front of the Wautoma Courthouse. The rally's purpose is to announce the demands of migrant farm workers to provide them with $1.25 minimum wage, insurance benefits, a meeting with the governor's committee, and public sanitation facilities in Wautoma. Strikes, rallies and marches in Wisconsin were organized by the Obreros Unidos, an independent farm worker labor union effort in the 1960s. El público escuchando durante la manifestación en Wautoma Un grupo de trabajadores emigrantes están escuchando a oradores durante una manifestación de Obreros Unidos enfrente del tribunal de justicia o Wautoma Courthouse. La razón de la manifestación era para anunciar las demandas de los trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes que pedían un sueldo mínimo de $1.25 por hora, beneficios de aseguranza, una junta con el comité del gobernador, e instalaciones sanitarias públicas para los trabajadores en Wautoma. Las huelgas, manifestaciones, y marchas en Wisconsin fueron organizadas por Obreros Unidos, un esfuerzo independiente del sindicato de trabajadores agrícolas durante los años 1960. |
| Image ID: | 93388 |
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| Creation Date: | 1966 |
| Creator Name: | Giffey, David |
| City: | Wautoma |
| County: | Waushara |
| 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: | 1114000096 |
| Original Dimensions: | 3203 X 4583 pixels |
| Information about Wisconsin migrant labor and grape boycotts from: 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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