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...Emma Tenayuca, dark-eyed little Red of San Antonio, Texas (TIME, Feb. 28), was nominated to run for Congress on the Communist ticket. Her opponent: Paul Kilday, who last month defeated the incumbent, rip-snorting Maury Maverick, for renomination. Nominee Kilday's brother is San Antonio's Chief of Police Owen P. Kilday, Emma Tenayuca's bitter enemy and twice her host when she was jailed for civil commotions...
Everyone in San Antonio knows about little Emma Tenayuca, a slim, vivacious labor organizer with black eyes and a Red philosophy. She first shone in her native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives in Houston, their marital...
...Juan Lopez, a naturalized Mexican priest, with strong C. I. O. sympathies. With Father Lopez" approval the International Pecan Shellers Union (a San Antonio local of C. I. O. Cannery Workers) called a mass meeting to plan a strike. Into the meeting to steal the show completely marched Emma Tenayuca. La Pasionaria's Communism was too much for Father Lopez, and he retired from active direction. Not more than 1,000 of 11,000 workers, struck. Soon pickets were parading with signs reading, "El Padre Lopez es un mat Católico...
From her office at the local Workers Alliance, Emma Tenayuca continued to pull strings with the assistance of her "gang,'' some 300 devoted followers whom she deploys with a masterly hand in picket line or mass meeting. But by week's end the strike had gone into the legal trenches with hearings, investigations, applications for injunctions and loud demands to the Governor for Texas Rangers to enforce civil liberties in San Antonio...
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