Word: huelga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S article regarding the National Educational Television program on the plight of migrant farm workers [Feb. 16] contains a serious error. Huelga! is not a film about Mexicans working in California. It is a film that depicts a struggle to improve the wages and working conditions of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent. They are among the more than 6,000,000 Mexican American citizens who pay taxes, fight and die in Viet Nam and send their children to U.S. schools...
...social" questions, and it is a charter well worth pursuing. This month the National Educational Television channels are carrying a pair of muckraking documentaries on the plight of the migrant farm worker. No Harvest for the Reaper is a chronicle of exploitation of Negro migrants on Long Island; Huelga!, a report on the 1965-67 Mexican grapepickers' strike in California. Both films contained remarkable and affecting footage, although they were more successful as polemics than TV journalism...
Marble Fire. In Huelga! (Spanish for strike), the main grievance is union recognition. Pickets line the vineyards and through loud-hailers plead to the scabs, also Mexicans. "Are you going to sell out your race?" Another stirring scene shows the migrants' demonstration march, behind union flags, to Sacramento. Curiously, though, there is not even a mention of the violence that occurred mid-strike, when the workers fired marbles with slingshots and the farmers retaliated by dusting them with insecticides...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "Huelga!," the rallying cry of Mexican strikers against California grape growers, resounds throughout this documentary...
...that Schenley and DiGiorgio have fallen, they will have to be dealt with one by one. The process is painfully slow. Some of the strikers, with a year's experience now, have gotten quite good at organization, but they are getting tired. The town is tired of the Huelga, and the huelgistos are getting