Salt of the Earth Page #6

Synopsis: Based on an actual strike against the Empire Zinc Mine in New Mexico, the film deals with the prejudice against the Mexican-American workers, who struck to attain wage parity with Anglo workers in other mines and to be treated with dignity by the bosses. In the end, the greatest victory for the workers and their families is the realization that prejudice and poor treatment are conditions that are not always imposed by outside forces.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Herbert J. Biberman
Production: The Film Detective
  3 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1954
94 min
Website
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- Do you live here Quintero?

- What do you want?

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- We come to garnish.

- What about the warrant?

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- Also have.

- We do not want problems.

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Just took the radio.

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sorry to interrupt

the party ...

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... but the owner of the radio

has achieved a garnishment order ...

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Do not touch.

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We do not seek problems

Mr. Quintero.

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We order

repossess the equipment.

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I said do not touch it!

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- Let them take her

- Passing over my dead body

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I do not want your corpse,

or see you in jail.

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It is yours and not

they carry.

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If you resist will

an excuse to lock you up.

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Gladden those faces.

We have real music!

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But the strike continued.

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It seemed interminable.

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They spent four months,

five, six ...

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The company was

without wanting to negotiate.

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They tried to turn against

Anglo miners us.

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They said I had to send the

Mexicans back to their country.

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How I can back

the place where it went?

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The barracks where I was born

is now Company

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Why would anyone sends

patterns his people?

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Patterns so there would

throughout New Mexico.

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- Hopefully we will see that day.

- Jenkins is not an employer.

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In his ilk

They let them stay.

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You can not give the desert

Oklahoma, it would be inhuman

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I was born in Texas

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That would be even worse!

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He reached the seventh month

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The company store

he refused to serve us.

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Box resistance

It was exhausting

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Several families could not stand it.

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Nobody knows where they went.

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The union decided that

desperate cases ...

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... should apply for a job

in other mines.

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This was done.

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About getting employment

helped with their pay ...

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... for others

they could eat.

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Ramon was not a hopeless case.

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Only had three

children to feed.

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Still, employers us

they would have starved ...

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... but we received support

International, Denver ...

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... and other sections.

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We thought that

anyone outside the county ...

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... he was interested in

our problems.

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We were wrong ...

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"Solidarity with the miners.

Construction union. "

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Letters came from our

Southeast compatriots.

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From far:

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Butte, Chicago,

Birmingham, New York ...

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Messages of solidarity ...

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... and crumpled banknotes

men working.

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The women were helping ...

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... not only as cooks

or making coffee.

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Some men mocked ...

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... but you had to do the job ...

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... and allow us to do so.

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Nobody realized

the magnitude of change ...

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... until the day of the crisis.

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The sheriff smiled.

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We learned that brought bad news.

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The company had achieved a

writ ...

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... prohibiting mining

manifest in the pickets.

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It was based on the law

Taft-Hartley.

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Punishable by heavy fines

and a prison ...

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miners who disobeyed

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You had to make a decision immediately

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Ignoring the mandate

or do not comply.

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If we obey ...

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... the strike will fail

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The scabs come

as the needle was going

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If we disobey ...

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... the strikers will be

arrested

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... and the strike will fail

anyway.

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So things are

peers.

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Employers are we

at their mercy.

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I want to add something.

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Whatever your decision ...

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... I support the International ...

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... as it always has.

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We are a union

democratic.

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The decision ...

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... is yours.

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Comrade President.

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If we surrender now ...

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... and to the odedecemos

Taft-Hartley rotten ...

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... we are fools and cowards.

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We can only do

one thing to fight.

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- To fight and win.

- There would win anything.

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We would be detained

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The men discussed.

There were great speeches.

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Apparently Barnes

was right.

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The company had them

at their mercy.

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Apparently the strike

had failed.

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Companion president.

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If you read the injunction

carefully ...

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... you will see that only prohibits

manifest miners.

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women

We are not miners.

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We will relieve you

on the picket lines.

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