Salt of the Earth
The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife, Esperanza Quintero, as a second class citizen. Esperanza, who is pregnant with their third child, is usually passive, but she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injuction.
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Director: Herbert J. Biberman, Jules Schwerin
Actors: Clinton Jencks, David Sarvis, David Wolfe, Ernesto Velázquez, Henrietta Williams, Juan Chacón, Mervin Williams, Rosaura Revueltas, Virginia Jencks, Will Geer
Country: USA
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