Salas Interpreting for Workers' Compensation
| Jesus Salas, right, 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 with his arm raised giving an oath to be sworn in to file claims for workmen's compensation. Salas is interpreting for volunteer lawyers Allen Samson (far left) and E. Michael Mc Cann (back to camera sitting at desk). The man to the right of Allen Samson is unidentified. In the background is a window decorated with the United Farm Worker's Aztec eagle symbol. Salas interpretando a favor de la compensación de los trabajadores Jesús Salas, a la derecha, 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 trabajador agrícola con su brazo levantado mientras da su juramento para poder presentar reclamos de compensación de trabajadores. Salas está interpretando por los licenciados voluntarios, Allen Samson (al extremo izquierdo) y E. Michael Mc Cann (sentado, con su espalda hacia la cámara). El hombre a la derecha de Allen Samson no está identificado. Hacia el fondo hay una ventana decorada con el símbolo de una águila Azteca como la imagen usada por United Farm Workers. |
| Image ID: | 92472 |
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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: | 1114000075 |
| Original Dimensions: | 6662 X 4575 pixels |
| Information about Wisconsin 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. |
| Offices |
| Clothing and dress |
| Eyeglasses |
| Oaths |
| Hispanic Americans |
| Indoor photography |
| Men |
| Signs and symbols |
| Civil rights |
| Typewriters |
| Migrant labor |
| Unions (labor) |
| Agriculture |
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