Farm Worker Gives Oath
| Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of working conditions in Wisconsin's agricultural and manufacturing industries. To the immediate left of Salas is a farm worker giving an oath to be sworn in to file claims for workmen's compensation at the Obreros Unidos office. Salas is interpreting for volunteer lawyers Allen Samson (far left) and E. Michael Mc Cann (right). In the background to the right hangs a banner that says "Obreros Unidos," with the United Farm Worker's Aztec eagle symbol in the circle. At the center background is a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe. On the background to the left is a sign that says in English: "It is better to die barefoot but standing." Trabajador agrícola da su juramento Jesús Salas, en el centro, es el líder de Obreros Unidos, un grupo chicano a favor de los derechos de los trabajadores emigrantes que empezó en los años 1960 para mejorar las condiciones laborales en las industrias agrícolas y manufactureras en Wisconsin. Inmediatamente a la izquierda de Salas está un obrero agrícola dando su juramento para poder presentar reclamos de compensación de trabajadores en la oficina de Obreros Unidos. Salas está interpretando a los licenciados voluntarios, Allen Samson (al extremo izquierdo) y E. Michael Mc Cann (a la derecha). Al fondo y a la derecha cuelga un estandarte que dice "Obreros Unidos" y el símbolo de una águila Azteca de United Farm Workers en un círculo. Al fondo y al centro está un retrato de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. Al fondo hacia la izquierda está un letrero que dice "Es mejor morir descalzo pero en pie." |
| Image ID: | 91325 |
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| Creation Date: | 1967 |
| 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: | 1114000039 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6772 X 4569 pixels |
| Information about Wisconsin grape boycotts and labor movement 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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