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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 workers union contract with Libby's Hartford plant. Obreros Unidos called it unfair because the negotiations occur during winter.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.Títulos de La VozMontones del periódico "La Voz Mexicana" en la oficina de Obreros Unidos en Wautoma. El titulo dice "El Contrato en Hartford es Injusto" ("Hartford Contract is Unfair"), refiriéndose al contrato sindical de los trabajadores especializados en enlatar con la planta de Libby en Hartford. Obreros Unidos lo llamó injusto porque las negociaciones ocurrieron en el invierno. 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.
September 1969
Giffey, David
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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 Hartfo...
Hartford Canning Company
1969
Site of Libby McNeil and Libby canning company. In 1968, workers in Hartford staged a walkout to support Obreros Unidos (United Workers) to show dissatisfaction with company domination of the local...
Father Garrigan Giving Pre-March Mass
August 15, 1966
Father Michael Garrigan in the background wearing a white robe and glasses holding 8 a.m. mass at St. Joseph's Church with 30 marchers before a Obreros Unidos (United Workers) "march for respectabi...
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...
Communal Shower for Migrant Workers
1969
A boy wearing a white short-sleeved t-shirt and dark pants is barefoot and standing to the left of a communal shower hut for migrant farm workers in a Wautoma labor camp. The communal hut is floorl...
Boys Selling "La Voz Mexicana"
1967
Two boys standing on the sidewalk are distributing "La Voz Mexicana" ("The Mexican Voice"), the official newspaper of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a union for Wisconsin's migrant farm workers c...