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A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcom...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Salt of the earth (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors: Independent Productions Corporation, International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, Alpha Video Distributors
Other Authors: Biberman, H. J. (Herbert J.), Revueltas, Rosaura, Chacón, Juan, Geer, Will
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Published: ©2004
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts > Zinc mining > New Mexico > Drama.
Miners > New Mexico > Labor unions > Drama.
Mexican Americans > New Mexico > Drama.
Historical films.
Motion pictures, American.
Feature films.
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Summary:A semidocumentary of the year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners in New Mexico striking against unsafe working conditions. When an injunction is issued against the workers from picketing, the wives take up battle with a fury, leaving the husbands to care for home and children. They finally overcome the forces of the mine owner and the law that backs them up.
Item Description:Title from disc surface.
Originally released as motion picture in 1954.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 DVD-video (94 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD.
Production Credits:Camera, Leonard Stark, Stanley Meredith ; music, Sol Kaplan ; editors, Ed Speigel, Joan Laird.