Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph.
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00:02:43Who can say when it began my story?
00:02:46I do not know.
00:02:48But this day I remember as the beginning of an end.
00:02:52It was my saint's day.
00:02:54I was 35 years old.
00:02:56A day of celebration.
00:02:59And I was seven months done with my third child.
00:03:07And on that day I remember I had a wish.
00:03:11A thought so sinful.
00:03:13A thought so evil.
00:03:15That I prayed to the Virgin to forgive me for it.
00:03:19I wished...
00:03:20I wished that my child would never be born.
00:03:23No.
00:03:24Not into this world.
00:03:28Are you sick, Mama?
00:03:33No, Estelita.
00:03:35Are you sad?
00:03:38Are we going to church for the confession?
00:03:47Fighting again.
00:03:49With those Anglo kids.
00:03:51Oh, they think they're tough.
00:03:53But you promised me you wouldn't.
00:03:54Papa says if an Anglo makes funnier, to let him have it.
00:03:57Never mind.
00:03:57Where are you, Papa?
00:03:58Hold still.
00:04:02Does it hurt?
00:04:03No.
00:04:05How come the cake?
00:04:07Never mind the cake.
00:04:08Go get your father when he comes off shift.
00:04:11Tell him to come straight home.
00:04:38You're in trouble, Quintero.
00:04:41Defective fuse.
00:04:42Ah, you're all in one piece, so what's the beef?
00:04:44You know the beef.
00:04:45This new rule of yours that we work alone.
00:04:47We're taking it up with a super.
00:04:48Super's busy with your negotiating committee.
00:04:51So much the better.
00:04:51Now wait a minute.
00:04:52Super's the one made the rule.
00:04:53He ain't gonna give you no help.
00:04:54You will if he wants us to go on blasting.
00:04:56Read your contract.
00:04:58Get somebody to read it for you.
00:05:00Don't say nothing about no help.
00:05:01Listen, Mr. Barton, there's blood in that mine.
00:05:03The blood of my friends, all because they have to work alone.
00:05:06That's how he gets splattered over the rocks.
00:05:08When there's nobody help to check the field.
00:05:09There's nobody to warn the other men to stay clear.
00:05:12Warning's a ship Foreman's job.
00:05:13Foreman wants to get the ore out.
00:05:15Miner wants to get his brothers out in one piece.
00:05:17You work alone.
00:05:18Savvy?
00:05:19You can't handle a job, I'll find someone who can.
00:05:22Who, a scab?
00:05:23An American.
00:05:24Come on.
00:05:41Mama.
00:05:42Shh.
00:05:43Not a word about the gate here.
00:05:52Papa.
00:05:53Is there going to be a strike?
00:05:59Ramon.
00:06:00I don't like to bother you, but the store leader said that if we don't make another payment on the
00:06:04ready this month, they'll come and take it away.
00:06:08We are only one payment behind.
00:06:10I argued with her.
00:06:12It isn't right.
00:06:13It isn't right, you say.
00:06:14Was it right that we bought this?
00:06:16This instrument?
00:06:17But you had to have it, didn't you?
00:06:19It was nice to listen to.
00:06:21I listened to it.
00:06:23Every night, when you were out at the beer parlor.
00:06:28No money down.
00:06:29Easy term payment.
00:06:31I'll tell you something.
00:06:33This installment plan, it's a curse of the working man.
00:06:49Where are you going?
00:06:50I've got to talk to the brothers.
00:06:59This water is cold again.
00:07:01Oh.
00:07:02I'm sorry, the fire has gone out.
00:07:04Forget it.
00:07:05Forget it?
00:07:06I chop wood for the stove five times a day, every time I remember.
00:07:10I remember that across the tracks, the Anglo miners have hot water in pipes, in bathrooms, inside.
00:07:17Do you think I like living this way?
00:07:19What do you want of it?
00:07:22But if your union...
00:07:24If you're asking for better conditions, why can't you ask for decent plumbing too?
00:07:29We did.
00:07:30We got lost in the shuffle.
00:07:32What?
00:07:33We can't get everything at once.
00:07:35Right now, we have more important demands.
00:07:37What's more important than sanitation?
00:07:41Safety of the men.
00:07:43That's more important.
00:07:45Five accidents this week.
00:07:46All because of speed up.
00:07:48You're a woman.
00:07:49You don't know what it's like up there.
00:07:54First, we got to get equality on the job.
00:07:56Then we'll work on these other things.
00:07:58Give it to the men.
00:07:59I see.
00:08:00The men.
00:08:02Your strike may be for your demands.
00:08:04But what wives want, that comes later.
00:08:06Always later.
00:08:07Now, don't you start talking against the union again.
00:08:10What has it got?
00:08:11Your union.
00:08:12Esperanza.
00:08:13Have you forgotten what it was like before the union came?
00:08:16When Estella was a baby and we couldn't even afford a doctor when she was sick?
00:08:19It was for our families we met in graveyards.
00:08:21To build that union.
00:08:22All right.
00:08:23Have your strike.
00:08:26I'm happy today.
00:08:28But no hospital will take me because I'm the strike as well.
00:08:32The store will cut off our credit and the kids will go hungry.
00:08:35We'll get the hand on the payments again.
00:08:38Then they'll come and take away the radio.
00:08:41Is that all you care about?
00:08:42That radio?
00:08:43Can't you think of anything except yourself?
00:08:46If I think of myself, it's because you never think of me.
00:08:50Never.
00:08:51Never.
00:08:52Stop it.
00:08:54The children are watching.
00:08:55Stop it.
00:08:57Stop it.
00:09:03Stop it.
00:09:04That's the problem.
00:09:04It has to be taken care of.
00:09:05The company will always tell you those things.
00:09:07We know it's not safe for miners to work alone.
00:09:10But they don't work alone in other mines.
00:09:12Anglos always work in pairs.
00:09:14So why should I risk my life?
00:09:16Because I'm a Mexican.
00:09:18That's in the demands.
00:09:19We're negotiating.
00:09:20Three months of negotiations.
00:09:21Nothing happens.
00:09:23Even with Brother Barnes here from the International, what have we got?
00:09:26No race.
00:09:28No seniority.
00:09:29No safety code.
00:09:30Nothing.
00:09:31Take a drink.
00:09:32Tomate.
00:09:33I say we've got to take action.
00:09:34Now.
00:09:36The rest of the men feel the way you do?
00:09:38He took for all of us.
00:09:40Did you ever stop to think maybe they want us to strike?
00:09:42Don't whores me.
00:09:43But with a war boom on.
00:09:45Then why is the company hanging tough?
00:09:47They signed contracts with the other locals.
00:09:49Why not this one?
00:09:50Because most of us here are Mexican-American.
00:09:52Because we want equality with Anglo miners.
00:09:54The same pay, same conditions.
00:09:56Exactly.
00:09:58And equality is the one thing the bosses can't afford.
00:10:00The biggest club they have over the Anglo locals is,
00:10:03well, at least you get more than the Mexicans.
00:10:05Okay.
00:10:06So discrimination hurts the Anglo too.
00:10:09But it hurts me more.
00:10:10And I've had enough of it.
00:10:12But you don't pull a strike when the bosses want it.
00:10:15So they can smash your union.
00:10:17You wait till you're ready so you can win.
00:10:19Do the bosses wait?
00:10:20No sanitation.
00:10:21So my kids get sick.
00:10:23So the company doctor wait?
00:10:2420 bucks.
00:10:26So we miss one payment on the radio bought from my wife.
00:10:28The company store wait?
00:10:30Pay or we take it away.
00:10:32Why is the bosses storing her to hurry?
00:10:34I try not to scare us, that's why.
00:10:36To make us afraid to move.
00:10:37To hang on to what we got and like it.
00:10:39Well, I don't like it.
00:10:41And I'm not scared.
00:10:42And I'm fed up till here.
00:10:44Hey, Ramon.
00:10:45Te buscan.
00:10:49What are you doing here?
00:10:51Something wrong with Mama?
00:10:53I thought maybe you forgot.
00:10:54Forgot what?
00:10:55It's Mama Saint's Day.
00:11:00What a kid.
00:11:02He can't wait.
00:11:03It's my wife Saint's Day.
00:11:05I was gonna ask you brothers.
00:11:07How about a mananita, huh?
00:11:08What time?
00:11:09Well, mananita, the later the better.
00:11:11ст butler
00:11:15And I'll see you akan break.
00:11:18Yes, you start building up.
00:11:24She rang all night.
00:11:27She hit me up.
00:11:29We Joined 3.
00:11:34But I respect you to Your favor.
00:11:40Joanna?
00:11:40Why are you singing?
00:11:46They are singing for me.
00:11:50Can we light the candles?
00:11:52Yes.
00:11:54Now we can light the candles.
00:12:20Happy birthday.
00:12:23Happy birthday.
00:12:26Happy birthday.
00:12:30Happy birthday.
00:12:31Come on, Charlie!
00:12:34Come on, Charlie!
00:12:36Come on, Charlie!
00:12:38Happy birthday!
00:12:41Happy birthday!
00:12:42Happy birthday!
00:12:44Hurry up!
00:12:47Tony!
00:12:56I do not mean to whip again.
00:12:58Why should I whip for joy?
00:12:59I'm a fool.
00:13:01No, you aren't.
00:13:05Was it expensive, the beer?
00:13:07Antonio paid for it.
00:13:11Forgive me for saying you never thought of me.
00:13:14I did forget.
00:13:16Luis told me.
00:13:27All the next week, I kept thinking about my mañanita.
00:13:31I had never had so nice a party.
00:13:34It was like a sun running through my mind.
00:13:39One, two, three.
00:13:48A daydream to lighten the long day's work.
00:13:52We all forgot our troubles at the mañanita.
00:13:55Even Ramon.
00:13:57I couldn't dance that night.
00:13:59Not in my condition.
00:14:01But I wasn't really jealous when he danced with the others.
00:14:05Because it was good just to see him smile again.
00:14:12And then one morning, I was hanging out my wash.
00:14:17And while we were talking, the ladies came.
00:14:21They were kind of delegations.
00:14:24It was about the sanitation, they said.
00:14:26The Anglo miners had bathrooms.
00:14:28And hot running water.
00:14:31Why shouldn't we?
00:14:36I know.
00:14:37I spoke to Ramon about it.
00:14:39Only way could go.
00:14:40He said they dropped it from the union demands.
00:14:44Es lo de siempre.
00:14:45We've got to make him understand.
00:14:47Make the man face up to him.
00:14:49Show her the signs.
00:14:51We'll make a lot of signs like these.
00:14:53Then we'll get all the wives together and go right up to the mañanita.
00:14:56Sure.
00:14:57We're negotiating and the company office will go up there and picket the place.
00:15:00Then both sides will see women business.
00:15:02A picket line of ladies?
00:15:04Sure.
00:15:05Why not?
00:15:06You can count me in.
00:15:08Please.
00:15:09Listen.
00:15:10We ought to be in a wood choppers union.
00:15:13Chop wood for breakfast.
00:15:14Chop wood.
00:15:15Wash his clothes.
00:15:16Chop wood.
00:15:16Heat the iron.
00:15:17Chop wood.
00:15:18Scrub floors.
00:15:18Chop wood.
00:15:19Cook his dinner.
00:15:20And do you know what he will say when he comes home?
00:15:23What have you been doing all day?
00:15:25Reading funny papers?
00:15:29Come on Esperanza.
00:15:30How about it?
00:15:31We've got to.
00:15:32No, no.
00:15:33I can't.
00:15:34If Ramon ever found me in a picket line.
00:15:36He what?
00:15:37Picked you?
00:15:38No.
00:15:40No.
00:15:42No.
00:15:42No.
00:15:49Accident.
00:15:50Accident.
00:15:52Accident.
00:15:53No.
00:15:59No.
00:16:15No, no.
00:16:18No.
00:16:18Eleanor.
00:16:19No.
00:16:19How was it going?
00:16:20To his sister!
00:16:21So, come on.
00:16:22Let's go.
00:17:02Mr. Polinsky.
00:17:24Let me see.
00:17:25Let me see.
00:17:26Let me see.
00:17:27Let me see.
00:17:28Let me see.
00:17:40How did this happen?
00:17:42They wandered into a drift when that fellow was blasted.
00:17:44I told you it would happen.
00:17:45It's about to happen when a man works alone.
00:17:47Why did you give the man a warning signal?
00:17:48Your foreman says that's the foreman's job.
00:17:51I checked the drift just before he blasted.
00:17:53It was all clear.
00:17:54The man must have been asleep or something.
00:17:55You weren't even there.
00:17:56You were back at the station.
00:17:57Kalinsky told me.
00:17:59You're a liar, Pancho.
00:18:01A no-good dirty...
00:18:05You there!
00:18:08Get a hold on yourself.
00:18:10A man's been hurt.
00:18:12I'm as sorry about it as you are, Savvy.
00:18:17Accidents are costly to everyone.
00:18:19And to the company, most of all.
00:18:22I see no reason to treat the occasion like a paid holiday.
00:18:25Suppose we all get back to work.
00:18:34Martin?
00:18:35All right, fellas.
00:18:36The excitement's over.
00:18:37Let's get to it.
00:18:40Our order?
00:18:41Your trail.
00:18:42Si.
00:18:43Si.
00:18:43Si.
00:18:44What are they saying?
00:18:45No Savvy.
00:18:48Now Barnes, what about it?
00:18:49Tell them now to get back to work.
00:18:51They don't work for me.
00:18:53I work for them.
00:18:56Police.
00:19:10It's up to you, brothers.
00:19:12Si.
00:19:12Si.
00:19:13Si.
00:19:13Si.
00:19:14Si.
00:19:14Si.
00:19:15Si.
00:19:15Si.
00:19:17Si.
00:19:17Si.
00:19:17Si.
00:19:17Si.
00:19:17Si.
00:19:17Si.
00:19:18Si.
00:19:19Si.
00:19:21Si.
00:19:23Si.
00:19:30THE END
00:20:08That night, the men held a union meeting just to make the walk-out official.
00:20:14It didn't take them long.
00:20:16They voted to strike 93 to 5.
00:20:21And Teresa said, now was the time for us to go in.
00:20:25I didn't want to.
00:20:27I had never been to a union meeting.
00:20:30But the other said, one go, all go.
00:20:42The meeting was nearly over when we came in.
00:20:46Charlie Vidal was making a speech.
00:20:49He said there was only one issue in this strike, equality.
00:20:54But the mine owners would stop at nothing to keep them from getting equality.
00:21:02He said the bosses would try to split the Anglo workers and the Mexican-American workers
00:21:08and offer rewards to one man if he would sell out his brother.
00:21:12Hermanos, solamente hay una defensa contra de esta táctica.
00:21:17Y esto es unidad.
00:21:20La unidad de todos los hombres trabajadores.
00:21:37Yes, you ladies have an announcement?
00:21:42We don't have an announcement, I guess.
00:21:44Only the ladies wanted me to...
00:21:46Louder!
00:21:47Consuelo, will you speak from over here?
00:22:02The ladies have been talking about sanitation.
00:22:06And we were thinking if the issue is equality,
00:22:09like you say it is,
00:22:11then maybe we ought to have equality.
00:22:13In plumbing, too.
00:22:17I mean, maybe we could make it a strike to men.
00:22:22Some of the ladies thought it might be a good idea to have a ladies' auxiliary.
00:22:28Well, we'd like to help out if we can.
00:22:42I think I can speak for all the brothers.
00:22:44in saying we appreciate the ladies' offering to help.
00:22:48But it's getting late,
00:22:50and I suggest that we table it.
00:22:53The chair will entertain a motion to adjourn.
00:22:55I don't move.
00:22:56Second.
00:22:57All those in favor.
00:22:58Aye.
00:23:00Opposed.
00:23:01So ordered.
00:23:12I'll be right in.
00:23:13Just question when.
00:23:15Why didn't you support her?
00:23:17You're the worst of the lot.
00:23:18But Teresa,
00:23:19you can't push these things too fast.
00:23:22You were pushing, all right.
00:23:23Pushing us right back in our place.
00:23:25Why didn't you chase this thing with me?
00:23:26It's embarrassing.
00:23:27At least you didn't make a fool of yourself like Consuelo.
00:23:29It's not a bad idea to make sanitation one of our demands.
00:23:34But honey, or why don't you just put a sign outside?
00:23:38No dogs, no women allowed.
00:24:14And so it began, much like any other strike.
00:24:19There would be no settlement, the company said,
00:24:22till the men returned to their jobs.
00:24:25But the back-to-work movement didn't work.
00:24:29And so the company recruited a few strike-breakers from out of town.
00:24:38But they usually lost their nerve when they saw the size of the picket line.
00:24:47The sheriff's men were always there.
00:24:50They stood around, showing off their weapons.
00:24:53But the men only marched, day after day, week after week.
00:25:00At first it was an unwritten rule that women stay at home.
00:25:05The union gave us rations, and we had to figure out how to feed our families on them.
00:25:11But then one morning, Mrs. Salazar went to the picket line.
00:25:15Her husband had been killed in a strike many years before, and she wanted to be there.
00:25:22Nobody remembers just how it happened.
00:25:25But one day, Mrs. Salazar started marching with them.
00:25:33After a while, some of the other women began to bring coffee for their husbands.
00:25:39And maybe a couple of tacos, because a man gets tired and hungry on picket duty.
00:25:45It was about that time, the union decided, maybe they'd better set up the ladies' auxiliary, after all.
00:25:55I didn't come to the lines at first.
00:25:58My time was near.
00:26:00And besides, Ramon didn't approve.
00:26:04But Ramon is a man who loves good coffee.
00:26:07And he swore the other ladies made it taste like zinc sludge.
00:26:14So one day, I made the coffee.
00:26:41Prieto, Sebastián Prieto.
00:26:42Haven't seen him for three days now.
00:26:45Hey, Ramon, listen to this.
00:26:47Chief foreman come to me last night, said he'd make a shift foreman out of me.
00:26:51If it's not back-to-work movement.
00:26:54Jenkins, why string along with them tamale eaters?
00:26:56I just said I come to like tamale's fine.
00:27:04Two scabs got through on the other side of the hill.
00:27:06We chased the rest back.
00:27:07Recognize them?
00:27:08Anglos from out of town.
00:27:09But they're not miners, I could tell that.
00:27:11They don't know zinc from Chinola.
00:27:12Okay, take five.
00:27:14Get yourself a cup of coffee.
00:27:15Hey, Ramon, here comes the super.
00:27:34Morning.
00:27:35How's it going?
00:27:36Well, those new fellas you hired from out of town,
00:27:38we brought them up here by truck this morning.
00:27:41They took one look at that picket line and turned tail.
00:27:45They don't look so rough to me.
00:27:47Well, Mr. Hartwell, they've got some pretty tough hombres there.
00:27:50Especially that picket captain there.
00:27:53What's his name?
00:27:54Ray?
00:27:55Raymond something or other.
00:27:56Oh, yes, I know that one.
00:28:07That's their main picket line.
00:28:09They have another post on the back road.
00:28:12Roving patrols all over the place.
00:28:14On company property?
00:28:15Why don't you have them thrown off?
00:28:18It's all company property, Mr. Hartwell.
00:28:20The store, the housing area.
00:28:23Everything.
00:28:24Where are you going to throw them?
00:28:26And who does the throwing?
00:28:28Well, are they going to let us pass?
00:28:30Eventually.
00:28:32This is just a little ritual to impress us with their power.
00:28:35Now, why don't you let this gentleman pass?
00:28:37Don't you know who's in that car?
00:28:39It's the paymaster from Moscow with our gold.
00:28:41No, no.
00:28:42It's the president of the company himself.
00:28:44Come all the way out here to Mick Jenkins, general manager.
00:28:47But why are you acting like me?
00:28:50Childish.
00:28:50Well, they're like children in many ways.
00:28:53Sometimes you have to humor them.
00:28:54And sometimes you have to take their food away.
00:28:58Well, here comes the one that we're talking about.
00:29:00He's quite a character.
00:29:01Claims his grandfather once owned the land where the mine is now.
00:29:06Want to go up to your office, Mr. Alexander?
00:29:08Naturally.
00:29:09You think I parked here for a cup of coffee?
00:29:11You're welcome to one.
00:29:12No, thanks.
00:29:14The man would like to know who this gentleman is.
00:29:16That's not a fair affair.
00:29:18It's all right.
00:29:18It's no secret.
00:29:19My name's Hartwell.
00:29:20I'm from the company's eastern office.
00:29:22You mean Delaware?
00:29:23No, New York.
00:29:24New York?
00:29:25You're not the company president by any chance?
00:29:27No.
00:29:28Too bad.
00:29:29The men have always wanted to take a look at the president.
00:29:32But you come out here to settle the strike.
00:29:34Well, if that's possible.
00:29:36It's possible.
00:29:37Just negotiate.
00:29:38Are we talking to a union spokesman?
00:29:40Not exactly.
00:29:42Well, I wish he were one.
00:29:44He knows more about mining than those pie cards we've had to deal with.
00:29:48I mean it.
00:29:49I know your work record.
00:29:51You were in line for Foreman when this trouble started.
00:29:53Did you know that?
00:29:54Yes, sir.
00:29:55You had a real future with this company.
00:29:57What?
00:29:59You let those reds stir you up, and now they'll sell you down the river.
00:30:02Why don't you wake up, Ray?
00:30:04Huh?
00:30:06That's your name, isn't it, Ray?
00:30:08My name is Quintero.
00:30:10Mr. Quintero.
00:30:14Are you going to let us pass, or do I have to call the sheriff?
00:30:19There's nothing stopping you.
00:30:25I was wrong.
00:30:26They don't want Jenkins for general manager.
00:30:28They want me.
00:30:34You should have heard that fellow.
00:30:36What a line.
00:30:37I was up for a foreman, he says.
00:30:38Fíjate.
00:30:40What's the matter?
00:30:41It's nothing.
00:30:43Just a little catch.
00:30:44Papa!
00:30:45Papa!
00:30:45Over here!
00:30:46Is that Luis?
00:30:48What is he doing?
00:30:49Playing hooky again?
00:30:53Luis!
00:30:55Come back here!
00:30:56Papa!
00:30:56We've seen the two scabs over there!
00:30:59They're hiding over there in the gully!
00:31:08Hold it, brothers.
00:31:09You, Antonio, Alfredo, Chente, come with me.
00:31:11The rest of you stay on the line.
00:31:16Come on!
00:31:44There!
00:31:44They go!
00:31:45There they go!
00:31:45Let's go.
00:32:18You! You! I'd expect it of a negro, yes.
00:32:21But you! You, Huda! Black sucker!
00:32:25Ramon, my kids!
00:32:29My kids don't have enough to eat!
00:32:31You think my kids have enough to eat, you rat!
00:32:34I know it's wrong. Just let me go. I live down. Just let me go!
00:32:38You think I was gonna work you over?
00:32:42I wouldn't dirty my hands on your...
00:32:51Papa!
00:32:58Luis!
00:33:00The baby! Get the wind and squeak!
00:33:08Why do you stop?
00:33:11When I have a little talk with you where you slugged that fellow back there.
00:33:15But that's a lie. I didn't.
00:33:18Now you know that's no way to talk to a white man.
00:33:23No, no, no! Go back and get a blanket!
00:33:25We can carry her!
00:33:29Hey, Vance. I thought you said this bullfighter was full of pepper.
00:33:32Don't look so peppery now.
00:33:34Oh, but he is. He's full of chili, this boy.
00:33:38He likes it hot.
00:33:39His Ciquita makes it good in hot blend, don't you, Pawns?
00:33:42Yeah!
00:33:45Sheriff, we need a doctor quick.
00:33:46There's a woman gonna have a baby.
00:33:48You take me for an ambulance driver?
00:33:51This is a company doctor.
00:33:53We don't have a car if you'll just get him.
00:33:55Are you kidding?
00:33:56Company doctor won't come to no picket line.
00:34:08We can't get her home very sometime. Get her inside!
00:34:18Hold your head up, Poncho. That's no way to sit.
00:34:24I'll not leave you all, you light.
00:34:25Oh, God.
00:34:30Forgive me for wishing this child never before.
00:34:38Get ready on this child.
00:34:42Let this child leave.
00:34:44Oh, my God!
00:34:48Esperanza!
00:34:49Ramón, run!
00:35:08Ramón was in the hospital for a week, and then in the county jail for 30 days, charged with assault
00:35:16and resisting arrest.
00:35:19But I made up my mind to postpone the christening till he got out of jail.
00:35:27We christened him Juan.
00:35:31That night, we had a double celebration.
00:35:35Juanita's christening, Ramón's homecoming.
00:35:38And we put all the children to sleep in the bedroom, as usual.
00:35:43And the men took over the parlor.
00:35:46As usual.
00:35:49Five thousand dollars.
00:35:51That beats.
00:35:52Raise your ten thousand.
00:35:53God.
00:35:54All right, let's see him.
00:35:55Jesus Lord!
00:35:57Come to Papa!
00:35:59Hear those deputies, log chente.
00:36:01Yeah, Al.
00:36:02Been lots of provocation lately.
00:36:03They figure if they can lock up the leadership on some phony charge, maybe they can bust the strike.
00:36:09Are we gonna let them play poker all night?
00:36:11I wanna dance.
00:36:12With whose husband?
00:36:14With any of them.
00:36:15Even my own.
00:36:16If you dance with my husband, you'll have to put up with this.
00:36:20Yes.
00:36:27And another thing, your attitude towards Anglos.
00:36:29If you're gonna be a leader...
00:36:30What attitude?
00:36:31You lump them all together.
00:36:33Anglo workers and Anglo bosses.
00:36:35He's a guest in my house, isn't he?
00:36:37You're even suspicious of him.
00:36:39Maybe.
00:36:40I think he's got a few things to learn about our people.
00:36:44Go on.
00:36:45Spell it.
00:36:46Well, you're the organizer.
00:36:49You work out strike strategy, and most of the times you're dead right.
00:36:52But when you figure everything the rank and file's to do down to the last detail,
00:36:56you don't give us anything to think about.
00:36:59Are you afraid we're too lazy to take initiative?
00:37:01Even though I don't think that.
00:37:03Maybe not.
00:37:05But there's another thing.
00:37:06Like when you came in tonight, I heard you ask your wife, who's that?
00:37:11His grandfather?
00:37:12That's Juarez, the father of Mexico.
00:37:15If I wouldn't know a picture of George Washington, you would say I was an awful dumb Mexico.
00:37:21I've never seen it fail.
00:37:22Try to give Ramon a friend of criticism, and he takes it right back in your face.
00:37:26No, he's right. I've got a lot to learn.
00:37:31If it makes you feel any better, he's got even less use for women.
00:37:34What are they talking about in there?
00:37:36Discussing each other's weaknesses.
00:37:37I didn't know they had any.
00:37:40Right now, Ramon's on the receiving end.
00:37:42If we shut out the women from the life of the...
00:37:44Come on!
00:37:45Bet!
00:37:48Let's break up that game.
00:37:49We can't think of them just as housewives, but as partners.
00:37:52And we have to treat them as such.
00:37:54Well, look who's talking.
00:37:56A new wealth champion of women's rights.
00:37:58Well, cut it out, Ruth.
00:37:59Me?
00:38:00I'm a camp follower.
00:38:01Following this organizer from one mining camp to another.
00:38:05Montana, Colorado, Idaho.
00:38:07But does he ever think to organize the women?
00:38:09No.
00:38:11Wives don't count any Anglo locals either.
00:38:14Not that I like the way you treat your wife, Ramon.
00:38:16I think you're all wrong.
00:38:18But when Dr. Burns here gives you his cure-all for female problems,
00:38:22just ask him if he's tried it at home.
00:38:25Hey, Esperanza.
00:38:27Esperanza's nursing the babies.
00:38:30There goes the game.
00:38:32Good.
00:38:33Consola, turn off the radio.
00:38:35Come on, Papa.
00:38:37On your feet.
00:39:04Look at him.
00:39:06A fighter, huh?
00:39:08He was born fighting and born hungry.
00:39:13Drink. Drink, Juanito.
00:39:15You'll never have it so good.
00:39:17He'll have it good. Someday.
00:39:22What were they saying about you in there?
00:39:24They say I'm no good to you.
00:39:27You are no good to me in jail.
00:39:31I'd lie in my cell and my cot and I couldn't sleep.
00:39:34With the bugs and the stink and the heat.
00:39:37And I'd say to myself, think of something nice.
00:39:41Something beautiful.
00:39:42Then I'd think of you.
00:39:44And my heart would pound against the cot.
00:39:47For love of you.
00:39:49Not just Juanito.
00:39:51You'll have it good too, Esperanza.
00:39:53We're gonna win this strike.
00:39:56What makes you so sure?
00:39:58Because if we lose, we lose more than a strike.
00:40:01We lose the union. And the men know it.
00:40:04And if we win, we win more than a few demands.
00:40:08We win something bigger.
00:40:12Hope. Hope for our kids.
00:40:14Juanito can't go strong with milk alone.
00:40:16Is this the container, please?
00:40:18What do you want?
00:40:19We've got a court order.
00:40:20You can't come in here without a warrant?
00:40:22We've got the warrant, too.
00:40:23We don't want no trouble.
00:40:24All we want is this radio here.
00:40:26We hate to break in on you folks like this,
00:40:29but this here fellow owns a radio store
00:40:31and he got himself a repossession order.
00:40:34Don't touch it.
00:40:36Don't want no trouble with you, Quintero.
00:40:38We've got orders to repossess this machine.
00:40:41I said don't touch it.
00:40:42Let him take it.
00:40:43Over my dead body.
00:40:44I don't want your dead body.
00:40:46I don't want you back in jail either.
00:40:48But it's yours.
00:40:48I won't let them.
00:40:49Can't you see they want to shut in spite
00:40:51so they can lock you all up at one time?
00:41:10What are you so sad about?
00:41:12Well, let's have some real music.
00:41:25The strike didn't end.
00:41:28It went on into the fourth month.
00:41:30The fifth.
00:41:32The sixth.
00:41:33The company still refused to negotiate.
00:41:37They printed lies about us in their newspapers.
00:41:40They said that all the Mexicans ought to be sent back
00:41:43where they came from.
00:41:45How can I go back where I come from?
00:41:47The check that I was born in is buried on this company property.
00:41:50Why don't nobody ever tell the bosses to go back where they come from?
00:41:54There wouldn't be any bosses in the state of New Mexico if they did.
00:41:57Brother, live to see the day.
00:42:00Jenkins ain't no boss.
00:42:01You mean we're going to let people like Jenkins stay here?
00:42:03You can't send him back to Oklahoma.
00:42:05It would be inhuman.
00:42:06But I was born in Texas.
00:42:08Oh, no.
00:42:09That's even worse.
00:42:13And the seventh month came.
00:42:15We couldn't buy food at the company store.
00:42:17By now, the strike fund was nearly gone.
00:42:21A few families couldn't take it any longer.
00:42:24And where they went, we do not know.
00:42:28And so, it was decided by the union
00:42:30that hardship cases should seek work in other mines.
00:42:35The strikers who found jobs divided their pay with the union
00:42:39so the rest of us might eat.
00:42:42Ramon was not a hardship case.
00:42:45Only three children to feed.
00:42:48Even so, the mine owners might have stabbed us out
00:42:52were it not for the help we got from our international in Denver
00:42:56and from the other locals.
00:42:58And we, who thought no one outside our county
00:43:02knew of our troubles or cared if they did know
00:43:06found we were wrong.
00:43:10Letters came from our own people of the Southwest.
00:43:15From far away, Butte, Chicago, Birmingham, New York.
00:43:23Messages of solidarity.
00:43:25And the crumpled dollar bills of working men.
00:43:31We women were helping.
00:43:34And not just as cooks and coffee makers.
00:43:37A few of the men made jokes about it.
00:43:40But the work had to be done.
00:43:42So, they let us stay.
00:43:45No one knew how great a change it was
00:43:47till the day of the crisis.
00:43:53The sheriff was smiling.
00:43:55So we knew he brought bad news.
00:44:00The company had got a court injunction
00:44:03ordering the strikers to stop picketing.
00:44:06A Taft Hartley injunction, they called it.
00:44:10It meant heavy fines and jail sentences
00:44:13for the strikers if they disobeyed.
00:44:16A decision had to be made at once
00:44:19whether to obey the order or not.
00:44:23If we obey the court, the strike will be lost.
00:44:28The scabs will move in as soon as our picket line is gone.
00:44:34If we defy the court, our pickets will be arrested.
00:44:39And the strike will be lost anyway.
00:44:44So there it is, brothers.
00:44:48The bosses have us coming and going.
00:44:51I just want to say this.
00:44:54No matter how you decide,
00:44:56the International will back you up
00:44:58as it's always backed you up.
00:45:01This is a democratic union.
00:45:04The decision is up to you.
00:45:28Mr. Sherman, if we give up now,
00:45:32if we obey this rotten Taft Hartley,
00:45:35we are fools and cowards.
00:45:37There is only one way.
00:45:38Fight them.
00:45:40Fight them all.
00:45:41Come on.
00:45:42We don't gain nothing.
00:45:43They'll arrest us.
00:45:44They'll arrest us.
00:45:47That's all that worries you.
00:45:50Do you realize that they're arresting our union?
00:45:53What are we going to hide behind the Nahuas of our women?
00:45:55The men quarried.
00:45:57They made brave speeches.
00:45:59But it seemed that Brother Barnes was right.
00:46:02The company had them coming and going.
00:46:05It seemed the strike was lost.
00:46:08Brother Chairman,
00:46:11if you read the courting engine carefully,
00:46:13you will see they're the only prohibited
00:46:15striking miners from picketing.
00:46:18We women are not striking miners.
00:46:20We will take over your picket line.
00:46:26Don't laugh.
00:46:28We have a solution.
00:46:30You have none.
00:46:31Brother Quintero was right when he said
00:46:33we'll lose 50 years of gains.
00:46:35He will lose his price.
00:46:37Your wife and children too.
00:46:40But this we promise.
00:46:41If women take your places on the picket line,
00:46:44the strike will not be broken
00:46:46and no cabs will take your job.
00:46:57If that's a motion,
00:46:58only members of the union can make a motion.
00:47:01I still move.
00:47:02Second.
00:47:03You have heard the motion.
00:47:05The floor is open for debate.
00:47:07Señor Presidente.
00:47:09Si permitimos que nuestras mujeres se mezclen
00:47:11en este asunto,
00:47:13nos vamos a convertir en la burla
00:47:14de todo el movimiento obrero.
00:47:16Hermano.
00:47:17Se equivocó eso.
00:47:18Las hermanas pueden ayudarnos a nosotros.
00:47:20Ellas no se manchan con ayudarnos a nosotros.
00:47:23Son nuestras compañeras.
00:47:26Lose us,
00:47:26which was worse,
00:47:27to hide behind a woman's skirt
00:47:29or go down on his knees before the boss.
00:47:37Brothers,
00:47:38we don't count enough on our women.
00:47:40The bosses don't count on them at all.
00:47:43Well, the bosses win now
00:47:45because there is no unity between the men,
00:47:47their wives,
00:47:49and their sisters.
00:47:54Carlota Sanchez said
00:47:55she didn't think picketing was proper for ladies.
00:47:59It wasn't nice.
00:48:01Maybe even a sin.
00:48:04I say let's give the sisters a chance.
00:48:06And what will happen when the cops come
00:48:09and beat our women up?
00:48:11Are we gonna stand there and watch them?
00:48:13No.
00:48:15We'll take over anyway.
00:48:16And we'll be right back where we started.
00:48:18Only worse.
00:48:20Even more humiliated.
00:48:21Brothers.
00:48:22Brothers.
00:48:23I beg you.
00:48:25Don't allow this.
00:48:28Call the question.
00:48:30All right.
00:48:31The question's been called.
00:48:33You brothers know what you are voting on.
00:48:35That the sisters of the auxiliary
00:48:37take over the picket line.
00:48:38All those in favor will so signify.
00:48:41Brother Chairman.
00:48:42Point of order.
00:48:50I...
00:48:51I don't know anything about
00:48:53these questions of parliament.
00:48:56You men are voting on something
00:48:58the women not to do
00:48:59or not to do.
00:49:02So I think it's only fair
00:49:04if the women be allowed to vote.
00:49:09especially if they have to do the job.
00:49:24Brothers and sisters,
00:49:26it would be unconstitutional
00:49:27to permit women to vote
00:49:29at a union meeting.
00:49:36There's no objection.
00:49:38We could adjourn this team.
00:49:42No, no, no.
00:49:43Wait, wait.
00:49:45And reconvene this meeting
00:49:46as a community mass meeting
00:49:48with every adult entitled to a vote.
00:49:51I so move.
00:49:53All right.
00:49:53On the motion to adjourn,
00:49:55all those in favor
00:49:56will raise their hands.
00:49:57Aye.
00:49:59All those opposed.
00:50:02The ayes have it.
00:50:03Now every adult is entitled to a vote.
00:50:05Come on, the original question.
00:50:07Question, question, question, question, question.
00:50:12All those in favor that the sisters
00:50:14take over the picket line
00:50:15will so signify by raising their hands.
00:50:18Aye.
00:50:32All those opposed.
00:50:58The motion has carried 103 to 85.
00:51:34The
00:51:35And so they came, the women.
00:51:37They came from Cintown,
00:51:39and the hills beyond,
00:51:40from other mining camps, women we had never seen before,
00:51:44women who had nothing to do with the strike.
00:51:46Somehow they heard about the women's picket line,
00:51:49and they came.
00:51:51And the men came too.
00:51:54I think they were afraid.
00:51:56Afraid the women wouldn't stand fast.
00:51:59Or maybe afraid they would.
00:52:02But not all the women went to the picket post.
00:52:05Some were forbidden by their husbands.
00:52:08It's not fair.
00:52:09I should be there with them.
00:52:11After all, I'm the one who got the women the vote.
00:52:14The union don't run my house.
00:52:16Those Anglo Danes stirred you up to make fools of yourself.
00:52:19But you don't see any of them down there.
00:52:20Yes, I do. There's Ruth Barnes.
00:52:23She's the organizer's wife. She's gotta be there.
00:52:26No. She wants to be there.
00:52:28And there is Mrs. Kalinske.
00:52:30There's Jenkins' wife. You don't see her on no picket line.
00:52:34Anglo husbands can also be backward.
00:52:36Can be what?
00:52:37Backward.
00:52:39Can't I even put in an appearance?
00:52:41With a baby in your arms?
00:52:43The baby likes to be walked.
00:52:45It helps him burp.
00:52:55Hey, girls. Wait a minute.
00:52:56Don't you want to believe my pistol?
00:52:57Shut up.
00:52:59What's all music?
00:53:00F money or court order?
00:53:01I'm not so sure about that, Mr. Alexander.
00:53:04Better the law, you know.
00:53:06All that injunction says is there's no picketing by miners.
00:53:09Whose side are you on, anyway?
00:53:11Ah, don't get excited.
00:53:12They'll scatter like quail.
00:53:14Well, let's get at it before another hundred apes shows up.
00:53:17All right, boys.
00:53:22What about these?
00:53:23Forget it.
00:53:24They'll scatter like quail.
00:53:44Get back.
00:53:45Get back.
00:53:46Come on.
00:53:46They've been in on my wife.
00:53:47They've been in on my wife.
00:53:49They've been in on my wife.
00:53:51They've been shooting.
00:53:51Let's try shooting.
00:53:52They'll throw you in jail.
00:53:53Get back.
00:54:00Push them by.
00:54:24Oh, my God.
00:54:54Why are you standing there?
00:54:55Do something.
00:54:57Relax.
00:54:57But women aren't getting hurt.
00:54:58We've got to take over.
00:55:00They're doing all right.
00:55:02Anyway, looks like you've got your hands full.
00:55:27The union is our leader.
00:55:30We shall not be moved.
00:55:31The union is our leader.
00:55:33We shall not be moved.
00:55:35Just like a tree standing by the water.
00:55:39We shall not be moved.
00:55:56Papa, I'm hungry.
00:55:58So am I.
00:56:05Where's your mama?
00:56:06She's coming.
00:56:07Charlie, the girl gave her a lift.
00:56:08Boy, did you see the way mama worked out?
00:56:10That's it.
00:56:11He knocked the gun right on you.
00:56:11I don't want you hanging around there.
00:56:12Here.
00:56:15You all right?
00:56:16Sure.
00:56:28Must have been some experience for you, huh?
00:56:29Yes.
00:56:30I guess you've got enough today to last your lifetime.
00:56:32I'm going back tomorrow.
00:56:34Listen, you might get hurt.
00:56:35I might.
00:56:37If you think I'm going to pay nursemaids to know on your gravy.
00:56:40I've had these kids all day.
00:56:43I've had them since the day they were born.
00:56:45I'm telling you.
00:56:46I don't stay home with these kids tomorrow.
00:56:47Okay.
00:56:48And tomorrow I'll take the kids with me to the picket line.
00:57:03And so I came back the next day and every day for the next month.
00:57:08I kept Juanito in the coffee shack.
00:57:11And when the weather was good and there was peace on the line,
00:57:15I brought his crib outside.
00:57:18Estella played with the little one.
00:57:20And Luis, Luis was in school.
00:57:25Ramon came every day just watching.
00:57:30The ladies, well, they criticized Ramon for not keeping the kids.
00:57:47For a while the sheriff's men left us alone.
00:57:51But then they cursed us, insulted us, called us foul names.
00:57:59It started again.
00:58:13They used tear gas again.
00:58:15This time the rain was against me.
00:58:17And I took the baby away from the danger as we had planned.
00:58:21We spread out as we had planned.
00:58:27But they couldn't break our line.
00:58:30They couldn't break it.
00:58:33Well?
00:58:34I've tried everything but shooting them down.
00:58:37You haven't tried locking them up.
00:58:39You want them all arrested?
00:58:42No.
00:58:43Just the ringleaders.
00:58:45The fire eaters.
00:58:47The ones with big families.
00:58:49Barton, where's that boy?
00:58:53Hey, you. Come here.
00:59:09All right, girls.
00:59:10I'm going to give you a choice.
00:59:12You can go home or go to jail.
00:59:15No ifs ands or buts.
00:59:18Get off the picket line or get arrested.
00:59:24Okay.
00:59:25Point them out.
00:59:26That one, Teresa, loves you.
00:59:27She's the man.
00:59:28She's the leader.
00:59:30You're under arrest.
00:59:31Homer the Hooskow.
00:59:32What's with these?
00:59:33Keep marching, sisters.
00:59:34Let's show some discipline.
00:59:36But Teresa, they'll charge us we're resisting arrest.
00:59:38Keep marching, sisters.
00:59:39Keep marching.
00:59:47Mrs. Salazar, the old one.
00:59:52Shana Diaz, that one in the blue dress.
00:59:56Luz Morales, that one.
01:00:00Mrs. Kalinsky, the Anglo.
01:00:05Ruth Barnes, she's the organizer's wife.
01:00:15And Lala Alvarez, the pretty one.
01:00:19And that one.
01:00:21With the baby?
01:00:22She's Ramon Quintero's wife.
01:00:24He doesn't like her being here.
01:00:28Take care of the baby, Esperanza.
01:00:30Don't worry about Juanito.
01:00:31We can take care of Stella too.
01:00:33No.
01:00:33The baby stays with me.
01:00:44The union is our leader.
01:00:46We shall not be moved.
01:00:48The union is our leader.
01:00:49We shall not be moved.
01:00:51Just like a tree, just standing by the water.
01:00:55We shall not be moved.
01:01:03If they leave us alone with love, Movinal Mountains.
01:01:04We shall not be moved.
01:01:07The lattice, the Oooxy that'sونanpa.
01:01:15Where are you away from there?
01:01:18No problems.
01:01:19We want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:26we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:34we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:36we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:37we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:38we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:38we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:38we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go,
01:01:40we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to go, we want to
01:01:51I told you ten times, we have no food, we have no beds, we have no beds.
01:02:02So will you please, please, shut up!
01:02:11He can't drink this meal, it'll make him sick.
01:02:16He was a fool, I shouldn't...
01:02:19Don't you worry, we'll get the match.
01:02:28The baby can't drink this stormy, we want his formula.
01:02:31You want the what?
01:02:32The formula, the formula.
01:02:34We want the formula!
01:02:36We want the formula!
01:02:38We want the formula!
01:02:47We want the formula!
01:02:49We want the formula!
01:02:52We want the formula!
01:02:54We want the formula!
01:02:56We want the formula!
01:02:57We want the formula!
01:02:58We want the formula!
01:02:58We want the formula!
01:02:59Well, you can get the J.P. to swear out feast bonds.
01:03:02Or you can hike the bale high enough to keep him in jail.
01:03:05Keep him?
01:03:06What am I supposed to do?
01:03:07Feed him out of my own pocket?
01:03:09What I want to know, Mr. Hartwell, is...
01:03:12When are you going to settle this thing?
01:03:14You want to negotiate with him?
01:03:16What do you want anyway?
01:03:18The company has other minds.
01:03:21You've got to see the larger picture.
01:03:23You've got to check it out!
01:03:26Once these people get out of hand...
01:03:29We want the formula!
01:03:31We want the formula!
01:03:48What are you doing here?
01:03:49Ain't you seen enough of me?
01:03:51I come for my kids.
01:03:52They're in your jail.
01:03:58But you've played every trump in your hand.
01:04:00They're not dead yet.
01:04:01Not every trump.
01:04:02Such as what?
01:04:05I can't shut them dames up.
01:04:08They keep yelling about a formula.
01:04:10What?
01:04:11A formula for the baby or something.
01:04:13His kid.
01:04:38I got you some milk for the baby.
01:04:40So what's all the belly aching about?
01:04:43That milk is no good.
01:04:45Queremos la formula.
01:04:46Queremos la formula.
01:04:48Queremos la formula.
01:04:50Queremos la formula.
01:05:17We want the formula.
01:05:20We want the formula.
01:05:23We want the formula.
01:05:24We want the formula.
01:05:25We want the formula.
01:05:26We want the formula.
01:05:28We want the formula.
01:05:40We want the formula!
01:05:42We want the formula!
01:05:55All right, where's his baby?
01:05:58Little girl.
01:06:37We want the food!
01:06:39We want the food!
01:06:41We want the bath!
01:06:42We want the food!
01:07:05Will you kids get out of those baskets?
01:07:38Three hours just to hit an apple.
01:07:39What?
01:07:40I'm telling you something.
01:07:42If this track is ever settled, which I doubt,
01:07:45I'll never go back to work for that company
01:07:46unless they install hot running water for us.
01:07:49Should have been a union demand from the beginning.
01:07:51You're telling me?
01:08:06Like Charlie Bidal says, there's two kinds of sleep.
01:08:09Wage slavery and domestic slavery.
01:08:12A woman question, he calls it.
01:08:14Woman question?
01:08:16Yeah, the problem is what to do about it.
01:08:19So, what does he want to do about it?
01:08:22He says give him quality.
01:08:23Equality is in jobs, equality is in homes,
01:08:26and also sex equality.
01:08:29What do you mean, sex equality?
01:08:32You know,
01:08:33lo que es bueno para el hombre es bueno para la mujer.
01:08:38He's some organizer, that Charlie.
01:08:40He can true organize a wife right out of your home.
01:08:51Papa, can't I leave now?
01:08:53There's a meeting of the junior shop stewards.
01:08:55The what?
01:08:55The junior shop stewards.
01:08:57There's lots of ways we can help.
01:08:58Don't I have enough troubles without them
01:09:00chipping you off to reform school?
01:09:01But you need all the help you can get.
01:09:03You've got a helper on the house.
01:09:04But you've got me doing everything.
01:09:06Mama never used to make me dry the dishes.
01:09:07You should have helped her without being asked.
01:09:11Good night, hermano, sir.
01:09:13Hasta mañana.
01:09:23How do you feel?
01:09:24I'm okay.
01:09:25Four nights.
01:09:26How did you sleep?
01:09:27We raised so much force, they finally brought Katzi.
01:09:30I nearly lost my bus for I'd yelling so much.
01:09:33My wife is telling Katzi, the baby.
01:09:35They're asleep.
01:09:41Did you have to find a flashlight to go back to the ticket line?
01:09:43No, no.
01:09:44We wouldn't do it.
01:09:47But if you go back, they'll lock you up again.
01:09:49No, no.
01:09:49They say we've had enough of us.
01:09:51We're talking crazy.
01:09:56We want a lot of loose titles.
01:09:58Sit back, Teresa.
01:09:59Hello.
01:10:02Well?
01:10:03It's all set.
01:10:04Consolo Squad can take the day off to me.
01:10:05Tomorrow.
01:10:05We're taking offer.
01:10:06All right.
01:10:07We're to work it out.
01:10:09We've got to have a talk.
01:10:10You and me.
01:10:11All right.
01:10:12But later.
01:10:13We have got a meeting now.
01:10:14A meeting?
01:10:14Yes.
01:10:15To plan for the ticket line tomorrow.
01:10:16You can sit in if you want.
01:10:20Now, let us see.
01:10:22Who's available?
01:10:23China's husband is out of town on that delegation to see the governor.
01:10:26And there are a whole lot of men going on a fuel hunting expedition tomorrow.
01:10:29Thirty or forty of them.
01:10:31So their wives are out, too.
01:10:33But we can ask them to keep our kids for the rest of us.
01:10:39What are we going to do about him, Esperanza?
01:10:41It's about time he was housebroken.
01:10:44Maybe if it's a delegation of us, talk to him.
01:10:49I have to work it out with him myself.
01:11:15I've got a friend, and he's got a friend and a pure old man.
01:11:18You know what he says?
01:11:20He's never going to open that man up again.
01:11:23How come?
01:11:23Oh, he said the door's running, so kept.
01:11:28Bulls. Lot of bulls.
01:11:30That's a rich mine. I know.
01:11:33What's the difference?
01:11:35They'll never settle with it. Never.
01:11:37Hey, what do you know?
01:11:39It's him. It's him, Presidente.
01:11:41The president of the company.
01:11:43Let me see this.
01:11:45Listen to this.
01:11:47Man of distinction.
01:11:48J. Hamilton Miller, financier, business executive,
01:11:52board chairman of Continental Factors,
01:11:55and president of Delaware Zinc, Incorporated.
01:11:58Wait a minute. Wait a minute, now. Some more.
01:12:01An enthusiastic sportsman and expert marksman,
01:12:04Mr. Miller manages to find time every year for an African safari.
01:12:09He leaves this month for Kenya,
01:12:11where he hopes to bag his 13th line.
01:12:18I'm going to frame this. Look, Ramon.
01:12:22I've got a look at the larger picture.
01:12:25So are the guys who are in the hunter.
01:12:28What do you expect me to hunt?
01:12:29Rabbits?
01:12:31Boy, oh boy, would I like to get me some vims.
01:12:33I ain't hastin' meat in four weeks.
01:12:35How about it, Ramon? Let's take off for a couple of days, huh?
01:12:38Why ask me? Am I running this direction?
01:12:41If you want permission to go over the hill,
01:12:44go ask the lady's auxiliary.
01:13:00I waited up till midnight.
01:13:04You weren't waiting for me?
01:13:06That meeting only lasted ten minutes.
01:13:09The first night I am home.
01:13:12You're going to the beer parlor.
01:13:14What is it?
01:13:16Can't you bear a sight of me?
01:13:18Be still.
01:13:20But you wanted to talk.
01:13:21Tell me.
01:13:44Tell me.
01:13:46We can't go on this way.
01:13:48I just can't go on living with you.
01:13:50Not this way.
01:13:51No, we can't go on this way.
01:13:53We can't go back to the old way either.
01:13:55The old way?
01:13:56What's your new way?
01:13:57What's it mean?
01:13:59You're right to neglect your kids?
01:14:13Where are you going?
01:14:14Hunting.
01:14:16When?
01:14:17Enough.
01:14:18Alone?
01:14:19No.
01:14:21Ramon, you can't.
01:14:24Why not?
01:14:24I'm not needed here.
01:14:26But you are needed.
01:14:27Especially now with most of the other many ways.
01:14:29You are the captain of the standby squad.
01:14:31Sure.
01:14:32The standby squad.
01:14:33Standby for the funeral.
01:14:35Whose funeral?
01:14:36We are doing all right.
01:14:38There hasn't been a scout near the picket line for three days.
01:14:41And you know why?
01:14:42Because the company knows they can starve us out.
01:14:44Even if it takes them another two or three months.
01:14:47What's it to them if the mines shut down a little longer?
01:14:49It's a lot to them.
01:14:51They'd do anything to open that mine.
01:14:53Ah.
01:14:54They cut out their mines.
01:14:56You don't see the larger picture.
01:14:59They've got millions.
01:15:00Millions.
01:15:01They can outlast us.
01:15:03And they know it.
01:15:04You mean you are ready to give up?
01:15:06Who said anything about giving up?
01:15:09I'll never go back to that company on my knees.
01:15:11Never.
01:15:12You want to go down fighting.
01:15:14Is that it?
01:15:16I don't want to go down fighting.
01:15:18I want to win.
01:15:21Ramon, we are not getting weaker.
01:15:23We are stronger than ever before.
01:15:25They are getting weaker.
01:15:27They thought they could break our picket line.
01:15:29And they failed.
01:15:30And now they can't win unless they pull up something big.
01:15:32And pull it up fast.
01:15:33Like what?
01:15:36I don't know.
01:15:39But I can see it coming.
01:15:43It's like a long before the storm.
01:15:46Charlie Vidal says.
01:15:47Charlie Vidal says.
01:15:51Don't throw Charlie Vidal up to me.
01:15:55Charlie's my friend.
01:15:57I need friends.
01:15:59Why are you so afraid to have me at your friend?
01:16:02I don't know what you're talking about.
01:16:04No, you don't.
01:16:09Have you learned nothing from this strike?
01:16:12Why are you afraid to have me at your side?
01:16:15Do you still think you can have dignity only if I have none?
01:16:18Talk of dignity.
01:16:19After what you've been doing.
01:16:21Yes.
01:16:21I talk of dignity.
01:16:23The Anglo buses look down on you.
01:16:25And you hate them for it.
01:16:27Stay in your place, you dirty Mexican.
01:16:29That's what they tell you.
01:16:31But why must you say to me?
01:16:33Stay in your place.
01:16:35Do you feel better having someone lower than you?
01:16:37Shut up.
01:16:38You're talking crazy.
01:16:39Whose neck shall I stand on to make me feel superior?
01:16:42And what will I have out of it?
01:16:43I don't want anything lower than I am.
01:16:45I am low enough already.
01:16:47I want to rise and to push everything up with me as I go.
01:16:50Will you be still?
01:16:51And if you can't understand this, you are a fool.
01:16:54Because you can't win this strike without me.
01:16:55You can't win anything without me.
01:16:58That would be the old way.
01:17:02Never try it for me again.
01:17:05Never.
01:17:18I am going to bed now.
01:17:20Sleep where you please.
01:17:22But not with me.
01:17:24But not with me.
01:17:44But not with me.
01:17:44So they had a little taste of what it's like to be a woman.
01:17:49And they ran away.
01:17:51With Ramon it's pride.
01:17:53I spoke out of the bitterness in me.
01:17:56And he was hurt.
01:17:58Anything worth learning is hurt.
01:18:00These changes come with pain.
01:18:03For other husbands too.
01:18:06Not just Ramon.
01:18:26You mean you are ready to give up?
01:18:30I don't want to go down fighting.
01:18:32I want to win.
01:18:38Have you learned nothing from this strike?
01:18:45Ramon, we are not getting weaker.
01:18:47We are stronger than ever before.
01:18:50They are getting weaker.
01:18:53I can feel it coming.
01:18:57It's like a loss before the storm.
01:19:01And now they can't win unless they pull up something big and put it up fast.
01:19:07Brothers!
01:19:08We've got to go back!
01:19:17Esperanza, where's Ramon?
01:19:18Did he go hunting?
01:19:19With the others?
01:19:20Where?
01:19:21Where can we find him?
01:19:22Do you know?
01:19:22No.
01:19:23Deer hunters.
01:19:24Deserters, that's what they are.
01:19:25Something's wrong.
01:19:27Charlie, tell us.
01:19:28The company has an eviction order.
01:19:32Eviction!
01:19:34Eviction!
01:19:37Eviction!
01:19:38Eviction!
01:19:38And I'm dead.
01:19:39And Makasa they can kill.
01:19:42Eviction!
01:19:43Eviction!
01:19:45Eviction!
01:19:48Eviction!
01:19:51Don't worry.
01:19:52Quintero's gone hunting with the others.
01:19:53Evict him first.
01:19:54The rest will be easy.
01:19:56Let their neighbors watch.
01:19:57It'll scare some sense into them.
01:20:10Can't we do something?
01:20:14All right, girls.
01:20:15Get back, get back.
01:20:30More tryin Sam.
01:20:31Let's go.
01:20:33Get back.
01:20:45All right.
01:20:55Let's go.
01:21:33Leave them brats alone!
01:21:35Come on!
01:21:37Let's get our work done!
01:21:41Don't pay any attention to them.
01:21:43Go back and get the rest of the stuff.
01:21:46Come on!
01:21:46Come on!
01:22:11This is what we've been waiting for.
01:22:14What are you saying?
01:22:15This means they have given up trying to break our thing alive.
01:22:18Now we can all fight together.
01:22:20All of us.
01:22:21Go get them.
01:22:21Pick up the stuff.
01:22:30Go!
01:22:30No, Prince, come on!
01:22:32Quintero!
01:22:32Come on!
01:22:53Now, see here, Quintero.
01:22:54These women are obstructing justice.
01:22:56You make them behave, sir, have they?
01:22:58I can't do nothing, Terrell.
01:22:59You know how it is.
01:23:00They won't listen to a man anymore.
01:23:03You want me to lock them up again?
01:23:05You want them in your lock-up again?
01:23:21Keep them out of the yard.
01:23:26Hey, the guy's from the open pit.
01:23:28Yeah, and the guy's from the mill.
01:23:49Hello?
01:25:12Got any more ideas?
01:25:14I don't make policy.
01:25:16I'll talk to New York.
01:25:19Well, I think maybe we'd better settle this thing for the present.
01:25:28We did not know then.
01:25:29We had won the strike.
01:25:33And yet, our hearts were full.
01:25:39And when Ramon said...
01:25:41Thanks, sisters and brothers.
01:25:45Esperanza, thank you.
01:25:51You were right.
01:25:53Together, we can push everything up with us as we go.
01:25:58Then I knew we had won something they could never take away.
01:26:01Something I could leave my children.
01:26:04And they, the salt of the earth, would inherit it.
01:26:12The wind of the earth.
01:26:13That's enough.
01:26:33Come back.
01:26:33I'm coming back.
01:26:44The End
01:27:12The End
01:27:37The End
01:28:09The End
01:28:10The End
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