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Migrant Barracks
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Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm workers in the area. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfaction with company domination of the local union.This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle for Justice," images from the migrant farm worker struggle including an independent organizing effort in Wisconsin and the nationwide grape boycott movement started by Cesar Chavez of United Farm Workers during the 1960s and 1970s.Cuartel para emigrantesRopa colgada para secar en un tendedero enfrente de un cuartel para trabajadores emigrantes. La compañía Libby McNeil & Libby Company era un empleador mayoritario de trabajadores emigrantes en el área. En 1968, los trabajadores en la planta de Hartford hicieron un paro laboral para apoyar a Obreros Unidos y mostrar su insatisfacción con el dominio del sindicato por parte de la compañía. Esta fotografía es parte de la serie "Lucha por la Justicia" tomada por David Giffey, originario de Wisconsin, las imágenes muestran la lucha de los trabajadores agrícolas emigrantes incluyendo un esfuerzo independiente organizado en Wisconsin y el movimiento nacional del boicot de uvas empezado por Cesar Chávez de la unión de campesinos o United Farm Workers durante los años 1960 y 1970.
1969
Giffey, David
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Hartford Canning Company
1969
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La Voz Headlines
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Piles of "La Voz Mexicana" (The Mexican Voice) newspapers at the Wautoma office of Obreros Unidos (United Workers). The headline says, "Hartford Contract is Unfair," referring to the cannery worker...
Transporting Migrant Workers
1970
Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck.This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle for Jus...
Legal Counsel before WERC Hearing
1967
Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and on the right, Gary Marsack. They are at a h...
Children at Waushara Labor Camp
1967
A group of children of migrant worker families playing a ball game in a circle with an adult who has his back to the camera at a Waushara County Labor Camp. Around them are buildings that serve as ...
Interior of Communal Shower for Migrant Workers
1969
The interior of a floorless tin communal shower hut with shower heads and sinks for migrant farm workers in a labor camp.This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggl...
