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00:01:24 #1 begin my story that has no beginning.

00:01:31 #2 In these arroyos, my great-grandfather raised cattle

00:01:34 #3 before the Anglos ever came.

00:01:39 #4 Go deep in this.

00:01:41 #5 Deeper than the pines, deeper than the mineshafts.

00:01:47 #6 This is my village.

00:01:49 #7 When I was a child, it was called San Marcos.

00:01:52 #8 The Anglos changed the name to Zinc Town.

00:01:55 #9 Zinc Town, New Mexico.

00:01:59 #10 You, this is our home.

00:02:06 #11 House is not ours.

00:02:09 #12 But the flowers.

00:02:11 #13 The flowers are ours.

00:02:14 #14 My name is Esperanza.

00:02:17 #15 Esperanza Quintero.

00:02:24 #16 I am a miner's wife.

00:02:26 #17 18 years my husband has given to that mine.

00:02:31 #18 Living half his life with the land where the mine now

00:02:37 #19 stands that was owned by my husband's own grandfather.

00:02:43 #20 Now it belongs to the company.

00:02:48 #21 Who can say when it began?

00:02:50 #22 my story. I do not know. But this day I remember as the beginning of an end. It was my saints

00:02:59 #23 day. I was 35 years old. A day of celebration. And I was seven months gone with my third

00:03:08 #24 child. And on that day I remember I had a wish. A thought so sinful. A thought so

00:03:20 #25 evil that I prayed to the Virgin to forgive me for it. I wished I wished that

00:03:27 #26 my child would never be born. No, not into this world.

00:03:32 #27 Are you sick, Mama?

00:03:38 #28 No, I'm still ill.

00:03:44 #29 Are you sad? I will go and to church for it on patient.

00:03:53 #30 When I see my child fighting again with those Anglo kids.

00:04:00 #31 Oh, they think they're tough.

00:04:02 #32 But you promised me you wouldn't.

00:04:04 #33 Papa says if an angle makes funny, it'll let him have it.

00:04:06 #34 Never mind what you, Papa.

00:04:08 #35 Hold still. Does it hurt?

00:04:14 #36 No.

00:04:16 #37 Come the cake.

00:04:17 #38 Never mind the cake.

00:04:19 #39 Go get your father when he comes off shift.

00:04:22 #40 Tell him to come straight home.

00:04:51 #41 Trouble, Quintero. Defective Hughes?

00:04:53 #42 Well, you're all in one piece, so what's the beef?

00:04:56 #43 You know the beef. This new rule of yours that we work alone.

00:04:59 #44 We're taking it up with the super.

00:05:00 #45 Super's busy with your negotiating committee.

00:05:03 #46 So much the better. Now, wait a minute.

00:05:04 #47 Super's the one made the rule.

00:05:06 #48 He ain't going to give you no help.

00:05:07 #49 He'll well if he wants us to go on blasting.

00:05:09 #50 Read your contract.

00:05:10 #51 We'll get somebody to read it for you.

00:05:12 #52 You don't say nothing about no help.

00:05:13 #53 Listen, Mr. Barton, there's blood in that mine.

00:05:16 #54 The blood of my friends.

00:05:17 #55 All because they had to work alone.

00:05:18 #56 That's how he gets blood out of the rocks.

00:05:20 #57 When there's nobody to have to check, he feels...

00:05:22 #58 And nobody to warn the other men to stay clear.

00:05:24 #59 The warning's a ship foreman's job.

00:05:26 #60 Foreman wants to get the ore out.

00:05:28 #61 Miner wants to get his brothers out.

00:05:29 #62 out in one piece you work alone savvy you can't handle a job I'll find someone

00:05:34 #63 who can who was cab and American mama not to work about the cake here Papa is

00:06:09 #64 there going to be a strike Ramon I don't like to bother you but the story they

00:06:17 #65 say that we don't make another payment on the ready this month they'll come and

00:06:21 #66 take it away we are only one payment behind I argue with her it isn't right

00:06:28 #67 It isn't right, she says.

00:06:30 #68 Was it right that we bought this?

00:06:32 #69 This instrument?

00:06:33 #70 But you had to have it, didn't you?

00:06:35 #71 It was so nice to listen to.

00:06:37 #72 I listen to it every night

00:06:40 #73 when you're out to the beer party.

00:06:42 #74 No money down.

00:06:46 #75 Easy-turn payment.

00:06:48 #76 I tell you something.

00:06:49 #77 This installment plan,

00:06:50 #78 it's the curse of the working man.

00:06:52 #79 Where are you going?

00:07:07 #80 Gotta talk to the brothers.

00:07:09 #81 It's cold again.

00:07:18 #82 I'm sorry, the fire's gone out.

00:07:22 #83 Forget it.

00:07:23 #84 Forget it. I chop wood for the stove five times a day, every time I remember.

00:07:29 #85 I remember that the crawls are cracks, the anglominer's hot water in pipes, in bathrooms, inside.

00:07:36 #86 Do you think I like living this way? Why you want of it?

00:07:39 #87 But if you're union, if you're asking for better conditions, fight can't be asked for decent plumbing too.

00:07:47 #88 We did. Cut loss in the shop.

00:07:50 #89 What?

00:07:51 #90 We can't get everything at once right now. We have more important demands. What's more important than sanitation?

00:08:00 #91 Safety of the men

00:08:01 #92 That's more important

00:08:03 #93 Five accidents this week. I'll because of speed up

00:08:07 #94 You're a woman. You don't know what it's like up there first. We got to get equality on the job

00:08:16 #95 Then we'll work on this other things give it to the men. I see

00:08:20 #96 the man

00:08:22 #97 Your strike may be for your demands,

00:08:24 #98 or what wives want that comes later, always later.

00:08:27 #99 Now, don't you start talking against the union again.

00:08:30 #100 Yes, it got me. Your union.

00:08:32 #101 Esperanza, have you forgotten what it was like

00:08:34 #102 before the union came when Estella was a baby

00:08:37 #103 and we couldn't even afford a doctor when she was sick?

00:08:39 #104 It was for our families we met in graveyards

00:08:41 #105 to fill that union.

00:08:43 #106 All right, have your strike.

00:08:45 #107 I'll have my baby.

00:08:49 #108 But no hospital will take me because I have your strike as well.

00:08:52 #109 So we'll cut off our credit and the kids will go hungry.

00:08:57 #110 We'll get behind on the payments again.

00:08:59 #111 And then they'll come and take away their radio.

00:09:02 #112 Is that all you care about? That radio?

00:09:05 #113 Can't you think of anything except yourself?

00:09:08 #114 If I think of myself, it's because you've never think of me.

00:09:12 #115 You've never... never...

00:09:14 #116 Stop it. The children are watching.

00:09:17 #117 Stop it.

00:09:18 #118 It has to be taken care of.

00:09:20 #119 The company will always tell you those things.

00:09:28 #120 We know it's not safe for miners to work alone.

00:09:30 #121 But they don't work alone in other mines.

00:09:33 #122 Hanglows always work in bears.

00:09:35 #123 So why should I risk my life?

00:09:37 #124 Because I'm a Mexican.

00:09:39 #125 That's in the demands.

00:09:40 #126 We're negotiating.

00:09:41 #127 Three months of negotiations.

00:09:43 #128 Nothing happens.

00:09:44 #129 Even with brother Barnes here from the international.

00:09:46 #130 What have we got?

00:09:48 #131 No raise.

00:09:49 #132 No seniority.

00:09:50 #133 No safety code.

00:09:51 #134 Nothing.

00:09:52 #135 No safety code, nothing!

00:09:54 #136 Take a drink, calm down.

00:09:56 #137 I say we've got to take action. Now!

00:09:59 #138 The rest of the men feel the way you do.

00:10:01 #139 He talked for all of us.

00:10:03 #140 Did you ever stop to think maybe they want us to strike?

00:10:05 #141 They don't want no strike.

00:10:07 #142 But we're the war boom on.

00:10:09 #143 Then why is the company hanging tough?

00:10:11 #144 That signed contracts with the other locals? Why not this one?

00:10:14 #145 Because most of us here are Mexican-American.

00:10:16 #146 Because we want equality with Anglo-miners.

00:10:18 #147 The same fate, same conditions.

00:10:20 #148 conditions exactly and the quality is the one thing the bosses can't afford the

00:10:26 #149 biggest club they have over the angle locals is well at least you get more than

00:10:29 #150 the Mexicans okay so discrimination hurts the angle too but it hurts me more

00:10:36 #151 and I've had enough of it. You don't pull a strike when the bosses want it so

00:10:41 #152 they can smash your union you wait till you're ready so you can win. To the

00:10:45 #153 boss's wait no sanitation for my kids get sick to the company doctor wait

00:10:50 #154 20 bucks.

00:10:51 #155 So we missed one payment on the radio bought from my wife.

00:10:54 #156 Does the company store wait?

00:10:58 #157 Why is the boss a store in such a hurry?

00:11:00 #158 They're trying to scare us, that's why.

00:11:02 #159 To make us afraid to move.

00:11:04 #160 To hang on to what we got and like it.

00:11:06 #161 Well, I don't like it.

00:11:07 #162 And I'm not scared.

00:11:09 #163 Hey, Ramon, who's gunning?

00:11:13 #164 Something wrong with Mama?

00:11:20 #165 I thought maybe you forgot.

00:11:21 #166 Forgot what?

00:11:22 #167 It's from the Saints' Day.

00:11:24 #168 He can't wait.

00:11:31 #169 It's my wife's Saints' Day.

00:11:33 #170 I was gonna ask you brothers, how about a manganita, huh? What time?

00:11:37 #171 For a manganita, the-

00:11:38 #172 Time to whip again?

00:13:29 #173 Why should I whip for joy?

00:13:31 #174 I'm a fool.

00:13:32 #175 You aren't.

00:13:36 #176 Was it expensive, Debeer?

00:13:39 #177 Antonio paid for it.

00:13:42 #178 Forgive me for saying you never thought of me.

00:13:46 #179 I did forget.

00:13:48 #180 Luis told me.

00:13:58 #181 All the next week I kept thinking about my manganita.

00:14:02 #182 I had never had so nice a party.

00:14:05 #183 It was like a song running through my mind.

00:14:08 #184 A day dreamed to lighten the long day's work.

00:14:12 #185 What?

00:14:13 #186 We all forgot our troubles at the Mañanita.

00:14:28 #187 Even Ramón.

00:14:30 #188 I couldn't dance that night.

00:14:32 #189 Nothing my condition.

00:14:34 #190 But I wasn't really jealous when he danced with the others.

00:14:38 #191 Because it was a good just to see him smile again.

00:14:47 #192 And then one morning I was hanging out my wash.

00:14:52 #193 And while we were talking, the ladies came.

00:14:55 #194 They were a kind of delegation.

00:14:58 #195 It was about the sanitation, they said.

00:15:01 #196 The Anglo miners have bathrooms and hot running water.

00:15:04 #197 Why shouldn't we?

00:15:06 #198 Los Mineros Anglos toos tienen agua caliente corriendo en sus casas.

00:15:08 #199 ¿Por qué nosotros no?

00:15:12 #200 I know. I spoke to Ramon about it.

00:15:15 #201 Only we could go.

00:15:16 #202 He said they dropped it from the union demands.

00:15:19 #203 Es lo de siempre.

00:15:21 #204 We got to make them understand,

00:15:22 #205 make the man face up to it.

00:15:24 #206 Show her the sign.

00:15:26 #207 We'll make a lot of signs like these,

00:15:28 #208 then we'll get all the wives together and go right up to the mine.

00:15:30 #209 To the mine?

00:15:32 #210 Sure. We're there negotiating and the company

00:15:34 #211 offers we'll go up there and pick at the place.

00:15:36 #212 Then both sides will see we mean business.

00:15:38 #213 A picket line of ladies?

00:15:40 #214 Sure. Why not?

00:15:42 #215 You can count me in.

00:15:44 #216 Lose.

00:15:46 #217 Listen, we ought to be in a wood chopper's union.

00:15:48 #218 Chop wood for breakfast,

00:15:50 #219 for breakfast, chop wood, wash his clothes, chop wood,

00:15:53 #220 eat the iron chop wood, scrub clothes, chop wood,

00:15:56 #221 cook his dinner, and do you know what he will say

00:15:59 #222 when he comes home?

00:16:01 #223 What have you been doing all day, reading funny papers?

00:16:06 #224 Come on, Esperanza, how about it?

00:16:08 #225 We've got to.

00:16:09 #226 No, no, I can't.

00:16:12 #227 If Ramon ever found me in a picket line,

00:16:14 #228 he'd what, beat you?

00:16:17 #229 No.

00:18:24 #230 What did this happen?

00:18:25 #231 He wandered into a drift when that cell was blasted.

00:18:27 #232 I told you it would happen.

00:18:28 #233 It's bound to happen when a man works alone.

00:18:30 #234 Why did you give the man a warning signal?

00:18:32 #235 Your foreman said that's a foreman's job.

00:18:34 #236 I checked the drift just before he blasted.

00:18:36 #237 It was all clear.

00:18:37 #238 The man must have been asleep or something.

00:18:39 #239 You weren't even there.

00:18:40 #240 You were back at the station.

00:18:41 #241 Kalensky told me.

00:18:43 #242 You're a liar, Pancho.

00:18:45 #243 No good dirty.

00:18:46 #244 Get out!

00:18:49 #245 You there!

00:18:50 #246 What's up, Amor? Get out!

00:18:51 #247 You there!

00:18:52 #248 Get a hold on yourself.

00:18:54 #249 The man's been hurt.

00:18:56 #250 I'm sorry about it as you are, Savvy.

00:19:01 #251 Accidents are costly to everyone.

00:19:03 #252 And to the company, most of all.

00:19:07 #253 I see no reason to treat the occasion like a paid holiday.

00:19:10 #254 Suppose we all get back to work.

00:19:19 #255 Barton?

00:19:20 #256 All right, fellas, the excitement's over. Let's get to it.

00:19:26 #257 Order.

00:19:27 #258 You're frail. She...

00:19:30 #259 What are they saying?

00:19:31 #260 No, Savvy.

00:19:34 #261 Barnes, what about her?

00:19:35 #262 Tell them how to get back to work.

00:19:37 #263 They don't work for me.

00:19:39 #264 I work for them.

00:19:40 #265 Grace, it's up to you brothers.

00:19:58 #266 See, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see, see!

00:20:04 #267 That night, the men held a union meeting,

00:21:01 #268 just to make the walk out official.

00:21:04 #269 It didn't take them long.

00:21:06 #270 They voted to strike 93 to 5.

00:21:10 #271 And Teresa said, now was the time for us to go in.

00:21:15 #272 I didn't want to.

00:21:17 #273 I had never been to a union meeting.

00:21:20 #274 But the other said, one go, all go.

00:21:23 #275 We have several serious brothers and many demands.

00:21:28 #276 But all this can be brought to a basic point, equality.

00:21:33 #277 The meeting was nearly over when we came in.

00:21:36 #278 Charlie Vidal was making a speech.

00:21:39 #279 He said there was only one issue in this strike.

00:21:42 #280 Equality.

00:21:44 #281 But the mine owners would stop at nothing to keep them from getting equality.

00:21:54 #282 He said the bosses would try to split the Anglo and Mexican-American workers

00:21:58 #283 and offer rewards to one man if he would sell out his brother.

00:22:10 #284 Unidad.

00:22:12 #285 No need to talk about some rest of our dollars. Yes you ladies have an

00:22:31 #286 announcement. I guess. The ladies wanted me to.

00:22:40 #287 Consuelo will you speak from over here. The ladies have been talking about

00:22:58 #288 sanitation. And we were thinking if the issue is equality.

00:23:04 #289 Like you say it is then maybe we ought to have equality. In plumbing to.

00:23:09 #290 I mean, maybe we could make it a strike demand.

00:23:16 #291 Some of the ladies thought it might be a good idea to have a lady's auxiliary.

00:23:21 #292 Well, we'd like to help out if we can.

00:23:25 #293 I think I can speak for all the brothers in saying we appreciate the ladies offering to help.

00:23:44 #294 But it's getting late and I suggest that we table it.

00:23:48 #295 The chair will entertain a motion to adjourn.

00:23:51 #296 a cure. I don't know. Second all those in favor. Why didn't you support her. You're

00:24:14 #297 the worst of a lot but there is a you can't push these things too fast you were

00:24:19 #298 pushing or right pushing us right back in our place I didn't check this thing with

00:24:24 #299 me it's embarrassing at least you didn't make a fool of yourself like one

00:24:27 #300 fellow it's not a bad idea to make son it takes you one of our demands honey or

00:24:33 #301 Now why don't you just put a sign outside?

00:24:36 #302 No dogs, no women, a loud.

00:25:15 #303 So it began, much like any other strike.

00:25:19 #304 There would be no settlement the company said,

00:25:21 #305 till the men returned to their jobs.

00:25:24 #306 But the back to work movement didn't work.

00:25:30 #307 And so the company recruited a few strike breakers

00:25:33 #308 from out of town.

00:25:40 #309 But they usually lost their nerve

00:25:42 #310 and they saw the size of the picket line.

00:25:49 #311 The sheriff's men were always there.

00:25:52 #312 They stood around showing off their weapons.

00:25:55 #313 But the men only marched day after day, week after week.

00:26:02 #314 At first, it was an unwritten rule that the women

00:26:05 #315 stay at home.

00:26:07 #316 The Union gave us rations, and we

00:26:09 #317 had to figure out how to feed our families on them.

00:26:14 #318 But then one morning, Mrs. Alassar went to the picket line.

00:26:18 #319 Her husband had been killed in a strike many years before,

00:26:21 #320 and she wanted to be there.

00:26:26 #321 Nobody remembers just how it happened.

00:26:29 #322 But one day Mrs. Alassard started marching with them

00:26:32 #323 and she kept on marching with them.

00:26:38 #324 After a while, some of the women began

00:26:40 #325 to bring coffee for their husbands

00:26:42 #326 and maybe a couple of tacos because a man gets tired

00:26:45 #327 and hungry and picket duty.

00:26:52 #328 It was about that time that the union decided

00:26:54 #329 maybe they'd better set up a lady's auxiliary after all.

00:26:59 #330 I didn't come to the lines at first.

00:27:02 #331 My time was near, and besides Ramon didn't approve.

00:27:09 #332 But Ramon is the man who loves good coffee.

00:27:12 #333 And he swore that the other ladies made it taste like sink slouch.

00:27:19 #334 So one day, I made the coffee.

00:27:22 #335 I've been waiting for you.

00:27:49 #336 I haven't seen him for three days now.

00:27:51 #337 Hey, Ramon, listen to this.

00:27:54 #338 Chief Foreman come to you last night

00:27:55 #339 say he'd make a shift for him now, doesn't he?

00:27:58 #340 If I start back to work movement, Jenkins?

00:28:01 #341 Why strangle along with him tomorrow?

00:28:03 #342 I just said I can lock the molly's fine.

00:28:11 #343 Two scabs got through on the other side of the hill.

00:28:13 #344 We chased the rest back.

00:28:14 #345 Recognize them?

00:28:15 #346 Anglos from out of town.

00:28:17 #347 But they're not miners, I could tell that.

00:28:19 #348 They don't know a thing from Chinola.

00:28:20 #349 Okay, take five, get yourself a cup of coffee.

00:28:22 #350 Hey Ramon, here comes the super.

00:28:42 #351 Morning.

00:28:43 #352 How's it going?

00:28:45 #353 Well, those new fellas, you hired from out of town,

00:28:47 #354 we brought them up here by truck this morning.

00:28:49 #355 They took one look at that picket line, turn tail.

00:28:54 #356 They don't look so rough to me.

00:28:55 #357 Well, Mr. Hartwell, they've got some pretty tough hombres there.

00:28:59 #358 Especially that picket captain there.

00:29:02 #359 What's his name? Ray? Raymond? Something or other?

00:29:05 #360 Oh yes, I know that one. That's their main picket line.

00:29:19 #361 They have another post on the back road.

00:29:22 #362 Roving patrols all over the place.

00:29:24 #363 Going company property? Why don't you have them thrown off?

00:29:27 #364 There's all the company property, Mr. Hartlow.

00:29:29 #365 One of the housing area? Everything.

00:29:33 #366 Where are you going to throw them?

00:29:35 #367 Well, are they going to let us pass?

00:29:40 #368 Eventually.

00:29:41 #369 This is just a little ritual to impress us with their power.

00:29:44 #370 Now, why don't you let this gentleman pass?

00:29:47 #371 Don't you know who's in that car?

00:29:49 #372 It's the pay-matter for a masked guy with our gold.

00:29:51 #373 No, no.

00:29:52 #374 It's the president of the company himself.

00:29:54 #375 Come all the way out here to make Jenkins general manager.

00:29:57 #376 Why are you acting for me?

00:29:59 #377 Childish.

00:30:00 #378 Well, they're like children in many ways.

00:30:03 #379 Sometimes you have to humor them, sometimes you have to spank them.

00:30:06 #380 And sometimes you have to take their food away.

00:30:10 #381 Well, here comes the one that we're talking about.

00:30:12 #382 He's quite a character.

00:30:14 #383 Claims his grandfather once owned the land where the mine is now.

00:30:17 #384 Want to go up to your office, Mr. Alexander?

00:30:20 #385 Naturally. You think I'd park here for a cup of coffee?

00:30:23 #386 You're welcome to, Juan.

00:30:25 #387 No, thanks.

00:30:27 #388 The man would like to know who this gentleman is.

00:30:30 #389 That's none of their affair.

00:30:31 #390 It's all right, it's no secret.

00:30:33 #391 My name's Hartwell.

00:30:34 #392 I'm from the company's eastern office.

00:30:36 #393 You mean Delaware?

00:30:37 #394 No, New York.

00:30:38 #395 New York?

00:30:39 #396 You're not the company president by any chance?

00:30:41 #397 No.

00:30:42 #398 Too bad.

00:30:43 #399 The men have always wanted to take a look at the president.

00:30:46 #400 You come out here to settle the strike.

00:30:48 #401 Well, if that's possible.

00:30:50 #402 It's possible.

00:30:51 #403 Just negotiate.

00:30:52 #404 Are we talking to a union spokesman?

00:30:55 #405 Well, not exactly.

00:30:57 #406 Well, I wish he were one.

00:30:59 #407 He knows more about mining than those pie cards we had to deal with.

00:31:03 #408 I mean it. I know your work record.

00:31:06 #409 You were in line for a foreman when this trouble started. Did you know that?

00:31:10 #410 Yes, sir, you had a real future with this company.

00:31:13 #411 But, you let those reds stir you up, and now they'll sell you down the river.

00:31:18 #412 Why don't you wake up Ray?

00:31:20 #413 Huh?

00:31:21 #414 That's your name, isn't it, Ray?

00:31:24 #415 My name is Quintero.

00:31:26 #416 Mr. Quintero.

00:31:28 #417 Are you going to let us pass or do I have to call the sheriff?

00:31:34 #418 There's nothing stopping you.

00:31:43 #419 I was wrong. They don't want Jenkinsburg general manager. They want me.

00:31:47 #420 You should have hurt that fellow. What a line.

00:31:55 #421 I was up for a form and he says, fijate.

00:31:58 #422 What's the matter?

00:31:59 #423 It's nothing. Just a little catch.

00:32:02 #424 Is that Luis? What is he doing? Plain hooky again?

00:32:08 #425 Back here.

00:32:14 #426 I'm here!

00:32:27 #427 Hold it, brothers.

00:32:28 #428 You, Antonio Alpero, Chente, come with me.

00:32:30 #429 The rest of you stay on the line.

00:32:31 #430 Bastion, Priya.

00:33:37 #431 Come on, listen to me.

00:33:38 #432 For the love of God.

00:33:40 #433 You.

00:33:42 #434 I'd expected of an angle, yes.

00:33:43 #435 Come on, I mean.

00:33:44 #436 But you.

00:33:45 #437 You, who the?

00:33:46 #438 Black sucker.

00:33:47 #439 Come on, my kids.

00:33:49 #440 You.

00:33:50 #441 Traitora tu gente.

00:33:51 #442 Rompe.

00:33:52 #443 Huelgas.

00:33:53 #444 Te es gracialo.

00:33:54 #445 You think my kids have enough to eat you rat?

00:33:56 #446 I know it's wrong.

00:33:57 #447 Just let me go.

00:33:58 #448 I'll listen to you.

00:33:59 #449 Just let me go.

00:34:00 #450 You think I was gonna work you over?

00:34:02 #451 I wouldn't dirty my hands on you.

00:34:07 #452 Get the women quick!

00:34:26 #453 Why do you stop?

00:34:33 #454 Talk with you or you'll slug that fella back there.

00:34:38 #455 But that's a lie, I didn't.

00:34:40 #456 No way to talk to a white man.

00:34:45 #457 Hey, Vance, I thought you said this bullfighter was full of pepper.

00:34:57 #458 Don't look so peppery now.

00:34:59 #459 Over he is. He's full of chili this bull.

00:35:02 #460 He likes it hot.

00:35:04 #461 This is the key to make it good and hot for him, don't you, Poncho?

00:35:08 #462 Sheriff, we need a doctor quick. There's a woman gonna have a baby.

00:35:14 #463 You take me for an ambulance driver?

00:35:17 #464 It's a company doctor. We don't have a car if you just get him.

00:35:21 #465 You kidding? Company doctor won't come to no picket line.

00:35:25 #466 I heard him there. He's in town. Take her inside.

00:35:37 #467 Hold your head up, Poncho. That's no way to sit.

00:35:48 #468 I'll leave you all you lies.

00:35:54 #469 I'm not a sick mother.

00:35:56 #470 Oh, forgive me for wishing this time would never be more.

00:36:02 #471 Oh, it's mother.

00:36:04 #472 You're a sick, but the most...

00:36:06 #473 Ah!

00:36:07 #474 Get married at this time.

00:36:09 #475 At this time.

00:36:11 #476 Ah!

00:36:16 #477 Esperanza!

00:36:17 #478 Ramon was in the hospital for a week,

00:36:40 #479 and then in the county jail for 30 days,

00:36:43 #480 charged with assault and resisting arrest.

00:36:49 #481 But I made up my mind to postpone the christening till he got out of jail.

00:36:57 #482 We christened him.

00:36:59 #483 Juan.

00:37:03 #484 That night we had a double celebration.

00:37:05 #485 Juanita's christening, Ramon's homecoming.

00:37:10 #486 We put all the children to sleep in the bedroom, as usual.

00:37:15 #487 And the men took over the parlor.

00:37:17 #488 As usual.

00:37:20 #489 Five thousand dollars. That beats.

00:37:23 #490 Three hundred and ten thousand.

00:37:24 #491 Dog.

00:37:25 #492 All right, let's see him.

00:37:26 #493 Jesus, Lord.

00:37:28 #494 Come to papa.

00:37:30 #495 Here those deputies luged senty.

00:37:32 #496 Yeah, there's been lots of provocation lately.

00:37:35 #497 They figure if they can lock up the leadership on some phony charge, maybe they can bust the strike.

00:37:40 #498 Are we gonna let them play poker all night?

00:37:42 #499 I want to dance with whose husband?

00:37:45 #500 With any of them. Even my own.

00:37:48 #501 If you dance with my husband, you'll have to put up with this.

00:37:52 #502 And another thing, your attitude towards Anglos.

00:38:02 #503 If you're going to be a leader...

00:38:03 #504 What attitude?

00:38:04 #505 You want them all together.

00:38:05 #506 Anglo-workers and anglo-bosses.

00:38:08 #507 He's a guest in my house, isn't he?

00:38:10 #508 You're even suspicious of him.

00:38:12 #509 Maybe.

00:38:13 #510 I think he's got a few things to learn about our people.

00:38:17 #511 Go on.

00:38:19 #512 Spill it.

00:38:20 #513 Well, you're the organizer.

00:38:22 #514 You work out strike strategy,

00:38:24 #515 and most of the times you're dead right.

00:38:26 #516 When you figure everything the rank and cost

00:38:28 #517 and fast to do down to the last detail.

00:38:31 #518 You don't give us anything to think about.

00:38:33 #519 Are you afraid we're too lazy to take initiative?

00:38:35 #520 Even though I don't think that.

00:38:38 #521 Maybe not.

00:38:39 #522 But there's another thing, like when you came in tonight.

00:38:43 #523 I heard you ask your wife, who's that?

00:38:45 #524 His grandfather?

00:38:47 #525 That's Juarez, the father of Mexico.

00:38:50 #526 If I wouldn't know a picture of George Washington,

00:38:53 #527 you would say I was an awful dumb Mexican.

00:38:56 #528 I've never seen it fail.

00:38:58 #529 try to give Ramon a friendly criticism and he kicks you right back in your face.

00:39:01 #530 No, he's right. I've got a lot to learn.

00:39:04 #531 Now we've got that settled. Build a cart.

00:39:06 #532 Makes you feel any better. He's got even less use for women.

00:39:12 #533 What are we talking about in there? Discussing each other's weaknesses?

00:39:16 #534 I didn't know they're here, Danny.

00:39:18 #535 All right, now Ramon's on the receiving end.

00:39:21 #536 If we shut out the women from the life of the youth...

00:39:23 #537 Come on, Beth! Let's break up that game.

00:39:28 #538 We can't think of them just as housewives, but as partners.

00:39:31 #539 And we have to treat them as such.

00:39:33 #540 Well, look who's talking.

00:39:35 #541 A new world's champion of women's rights.

00:39:37 #542 Well, cut it out, Ruth.

00:39:39 #543 Me, I'm a camp follower,

00:39:41 #544 following as organizer from one mining camp to another.

00:39:44 #545 Montana, Colorado, Idaho.

00:39:46 #546 But does he ever think to organize the women?

00:39:49 #547 No.

00:39:50 #548 Wives don't count in the Anglo locals either.

00:39:53 #549 Not that I like the way you treat your wife, Ramon.

00:39:56 #550 I think you're all wrong.

00:39:58 #551 But when Dr. Barns here gives you his cure all for female problems,

00:40:02 #552 just ask him if he's tried it at home.

00:40:05 #553 Hey, Esperanza!

00:40:07 #554 Esperanza's nursing the baby.

00:40:10 #555 Where goes the game?

00:40:12 #556 Good. Consola, turn up the radio.

00:40:15 #557 Come on, Papa!

00:40:17 #558 On your feet.

00:40:23 #559 Fighting.

00:40:51 #560 And born hungry.

00:40:53 #561 Drink. Drink Juanito.

00:40:55 #562 You'll never have it so good.

00:40:57 #563 He'll have it good.

00:40:59 #564 Someday.

00:41:01 #565 What were they saying about you in there?

00:41:05 #566 They say I'm not good to you.

00:41:07 #567 You are not good to me in jail.

00:41:11 #568 I'd lie in my cell in my garden. I couldn't sleep.

00:41:15 #569 With the bugs and the stink and the heat.

00:41:18 #570 And I'd say to myself, think of something nice.

00:41:22 #571 Something beautiful.

00:41:24 #572 And then I'd think of you.

00:41:26 #573 And my heart would pound against the cut for love of you.

00:41:32 #574 Not just for Nito. You'll have it good too, Esperanza.

00:41:36 #575 We're gonna win this strike.

00:41:39 #576 What makes you so sure?

00:41:41 #577 Because if we lose, we lose more than a strike.

00:41:44 #578 We lose the union, and the men know it.

00:41:47 #579 And if we win, we win more than a few demands.

00:41:51 #580 We win something bigger. Hope. Hope for our kids.

00:41:58 #581 Juanito can't grow strong on milk alone.

00:42:00 #582 Is this a control place?

00:42:02 #583 What do you want?

00:42:03 #584 We've got a court order.

00:42:04 #585 You can't come in here without a warrant.

00:42:06 #586 We've got the warrant too.

00:42:07 #587 We don't want no trouble. Only wants this radio.

00:42:10 #588 We hate to break in on you folks like this,

00:42:13 #589 but this here fellow in the radio store

00:42:15 #590 and he got himself a reposition order.

00:42:18 #591 Don't touch it.

00:42:20 #592 I don't know a trouble like you can tell.

00:42:22 #593 You've got orders to reach the Zestos machine.

00:42:25 #594 I said don't touch it.

00:42:27 #595 Let him say it.

00:42:28 #596 Over my dead body.

00:42:29 #597 I don't want your dead body.

00:42:30 #598 I don't want your fucking gay leader.

00:42:32 #599 But it's yours. I won't let them.

00:42:34 #600 Can't you see they want to satisfy

00:42:35 #601 so they can lock you all up at one time?

00:42:37 #602 What are you so flat about?

00:42:57 #603 Let's have some real music.

00:42:59 #604 But the strike did not end.

00:43:13 #605 It went on and on.

00:43:15 #606 on into the fourth month, the fifth, the sixth. The company still refused to negotiate. They

00:43:24 #607 try to turn the Angolan miners against us. They say that all Mexicans ought to be sent

00:43:32 #608 back where they came from.

00:43:33 #609 How can I go back where I come from? The check that I was born in is buried under company

00:43:38 #610 property.

00:43:38 #611 Why don't nobody out of the bosses go back where they come from?

00:43:42 #612 There wouldn't be any bosses in the state of New Mexico if it did.

00:43:45 #613 Brother, live to see the day.

00:43:47 #614 Jenkins, ain't no boss.

00:43:49 #615 You mean we're gonna let people like Jenkins stay here?

00:43:51 #616 You can't send him back to Oklahoma.

00:43:53 #617 He would be in human.

00:43:55 #618 But I was born in Texas.

00:43:57 #619 Oh, no! That's even worse.

00:43:59 #620 And the seven months came.

00:44:01 #621 We couldn't buy food at a company store.

00:44:04 #622 By now, the strike fund was nearly gone.

00:44:09 #623 A few families couldn't take it any longer.

00:44:12 #624 And where they went, we do not know.

00:44:18 #625 And so it was decided by the union that hardship cases should seek work in other mines.

00:44:24 #626 And this was done.

00:44:26 #627 Strikers who found jobs divided their pay with the union so the rest of us might eat.

00:44:32 #628 Ramon was not a hardship case.

00:44:35 #629 Only three children to feed.

00:44:38 #630 Even so the mine owners might have stardust out,

00:44:42 #631 Well, not for the help we got from the International In Denver and from other locals.

00:44:48 #632 And we, who thought no one outside our county knew of our troubles or cared if they did not, found we were wrong.

00:44:57 #633 Letters came from our own people of the Southwest.

00:45:07 #634 From Faraway, Beaud, Chicago, Birmingham, New York.

00:45:12 #635 messages of solidarity and the crumpled dollar bills of working men.

00:45:24 #636 We women were helping and not just as cooks and cutting makers.

00:45:28 #637 A few of the men made jokes about it, but the work had to be done, so they let us stay.

00:45:38 #638 No one knew how great a change it was until the day of the crisis.

00:45:42 #639 The sheriff was smiling, so we knew he brought bad news.

00:45:54 #640 The company had got the court in junction,

00:45:57 #641 ordering the strikers to stop picketing.

00:46:00 #642 A toughed heart lay in junction, they called it.

00:46:04 #643 It meant heavy fines and jail sentences for the strikers

00:46:07 #644 if they disobeyed.

00:46:09 #645 A decision had to be made at once,

00:46:12 #646 whether to obey the order or not.

00:46:17 #647 If we obey the court, the strike will be lost.

00:46:23 #648 The scabs will move in as soon as our picket line is gone.

00:46:29 #649 If we defy the court, our pickets will be arrested.

00:46:35 #650 And the strike will be lost anyway.

00:46:39 #651 So there it is, brothers.

00:46:44 #652 The bosses have us coming and going.

00:46:47 #653 I just want to say this.

00:46:50 #654 No matter how you decide,

00:46:52 #655 the international will back you up

00:46:54 #656 as it's always backed you up.

00:46:57 #657 This is a democratic union.

00:47:00 #658 The decision is up to you.

00:47:25 #659 Brother Chairman.

00:47:26 #660 Brother Kejow.

00:47:27 #661 If we give up now, if we obey this rotten tap hardly,

00:47:33 #662 we are fools and cowards.

00:47:35 #663 There is only one way.

00:47:39 #664 We don't gain nothing.

00:47:41 #665 Now arrest us.

00:47:43 #666 Que nos arrestes.

00:47:46 #667 Que estuvo lo que les preocupa.

00:47:48 #668 No se dan cuenta que están arrestando a nuestra unión.

00:47:51 #669 Que no vamos a esconder tras el al nago de nuestras mujeres.

00:47:54 #670 The men quarred.

00:47:55 #671 They made brave speeches.

00:47:58 #672 It seemed that brother Barnes was right.

00:48:01 #673 The company had them coming and going.

00:48:04 #674 It seemed the strike was lost.

00:48:07 #675 Brother Chairman, if you read the courting

00:48:11 #676 judgment carefully, you will see that the only

00:48:14 #677 per hit of striking miners from picketing.

00:48:17 #678 We women are not striking miners.

00:48:20 #679 We will take over your picket line.

00:48:26 #680 Don't laugh.

00:48:28 #681 We have a solution.

00:48:29 #682 You have none.

00:48:31 #683 Brother Quinteto was right when he said,

00:48:33 #684 we'll lose 50 years of games.

00:48:36 #685 he will lose his track your wife and children too.

00:48:40 #686 But these we promise if women take your place on the ticket line

00:48:45 #687 the strike will not be broken and no cabs will take your job.

00:48:58 #688 If that's a motion only members of the union can make a motion I don't move.

00:49:04 #689 You have heard the motion the floor is open for debate.

00:49:14 #690 We are going to turn into the entire workers' movement.

00:49:18 #691 Brother, I know that.

00:49:20 #692 The sisters can help us.

00:49:22 #693 They don't get along with us.

00:49:23 #694 They help us. They are our comrades.

00:49:27 #695 What is it, Fior?

00:49:28 #696 Luz asked him which was worse.

00:49:30 #697 To hide behind a woman's skirt

00:49:32 #698 or go down on his knees before the boss.

00:49:41 #699 We don't count enough on our women.

00:49:43 #700 The bosses don't count on them at all.

00:49:45 #701 Well, the bosses win now.

00:49:47 #702 Because there is no unity between the men, their wives, and their sisters?

00:49:59 #703 Carlotta Sanchez said she didn't think picketing was proper for ladies.

00:50:04 #704 It wasn't nice. Maybe even a sin.

00:50:07 #705 I say let's give the sisters a chance.

00:50:10 #706 And what will happen when the cops come?

00:50:13 #707 And beat our women up? Are we gonna stand there and watch them?

00:50:17 #708 No. We'll take over anyway.

00:50:20 #709 way and we'll be right back where we started only worse even more humiliated

00:50:26 #710 brothers brothers I beg you don't allow this all the questions the questions have

00:50:37 #711 been called you brothers know what you are voting on that the sisters of the

00:50:41 #712 auxiliary take over the picket line all those in favor will so signify rather

00:50:47 #713 chairman point of order I don't know anything about these questions

00:51:00 #714 of parliament but you men are voting on something the women are to do or not to do

00:51:08 #715 so I think it's only fair if the women be allowed to vote especially if they had

00:51:18 #716 to do the job. Brothers and sisters it would be on Constitution to permit women to

00:51:38 #717 vote at a union meeting. If there's no objection we could adjourn this meeting.

00:51:50 #718 Wait, wait.

00:51:53 #719 And reconvene this meeting as a community mass meeting with every adult entitled to a

00:52:01 #720 vote.

00:52:02 #721 I so move.

00:52:03 #722 All right.

00:52:04 #723 On the motion to adjourn, all those in favor will raise their hands.

00:52:07 #724 All those opposed.

00:52:13 #725 The ayes have it.

00:52:14 #726 Now every adult is entitled to a vote.

00:52:16 #727 Move on the original question.

00:52:24 #728 All those in favor that the sisters take over the picket line will so signify by raising

00:52:28 #729 their hands.

00:52:44 #730 As opposed, the motion has carried 103 to 85.

00:53:15 #731 And so they came, the women.

00:53:49 #732 They came from Sink Town and the hills beyond, from other mining camps, 10, 20, 30 miles away.

00:53:56 #733 Women we had never seen before, women who had nothing to do with the strike.

00:54:01 #734 Somehow they heard about the women's picket line and they came.

00:54:06 #735 And the men came too.

00:54:09 #736 I think they were afraid.

00:54:11 #737 Afraid the women wouldn't stand fast.

00:54:14 #738 Or maybe afraid they would.

00:54:16 #739 But not all the women went to the picket line.

00:54:19 #740 Some were forbidden by their husbands.

00:54:22 #741 I was one of them.

00:54:24 #742 It's not fair. I should be there with them.

00:54:27 #743 After all, I'm the one who got the women the vote.

00:54:30 #744 The union don't run my house.

00:54:32 #745 Both Anglo-Dames stirred you up to make fools of yourself.

00:54:35 #746 But you don't see any of them down there.

00:54:37 #747 Yes, I do. There's Ruth Barnes.

00:54:39 #748 She's the organizer's wife. She's got to be there.

00:54:42 #749 No. She wants to be there.

00:54:45 #750 And there's Mrs. Kalinsky.

00:54:47 #751 There's Jenkins' wife. You don't see her on the opicette line.

00:54:51 #752 Anglo-Husbands can also be backward.

00:54:53 #753 Can be what?

00:54:54 #754 Backward.

00:54:55 #755 Can't I even put in an appearance?

00:54:58 #756 With a baby in your arms?

00:55:00 #757 The baby likes to be walked.

00:55:02 #758 It helps him...vert.

00:55:05 #759 Hey girls, wait a minute. Don't you want to sleep on a testicle?

00:55:15 #760 Shut up.

00:55:16 #761 What's all the music?

00:55:17 #762 They're funny, a court order.

00:55:19 #763 I'm not so sure about that, Mr. Alexander.

00:55:22 #764 Better the law, you know.

00:55:23 #765 All that injunction says is there's no picketing by minors.

00:55:27 #766 Whose side are you on, anyway?

00:55:29 #767 Don't get excited. They'll scatter like quail.

00:55:32 #768 Well, let's get at it for another hundred-day show something.

00:55:35 #769 All right, boys.

00:55:36 #770 What about these?

00:55:41 #771 Forget it. They'll scatter like quail.

00:55:43 #772 A quail.

00:55:44 #773 Are you standing there?

00:57:18 #774 Do something.

00:57:19 #775 Relax.

00:57:20 #776 But we're not getting hurt.

00:57:21 #777 We've got to take over.

00:57:23 #778 They're doing all right.

00:57:25 #779 Anyway, looks like you've got your hands full.

00:58:31 #780 What's your mama? She's coming.

00:58:33 #781 Charlie, the dog gave her a lift.

00:58:34 #782 Boy, did you see the white mama? Who's that? That's it?

00:58:37 #783 He knocked the gun right out.

00:58:38 #784 I don't want you hanging around there.

00:58:39 #785 Here.

00:58:41 #786 You all right?

00:58:43 #787 Sure.

00:58:55 #788 It's beautiful for you, huh?

00:58:56 #789 Yes.

00:58:57 #790 I guess you've got enough today to last your lifetime.

00:58:59 #791 I'm going back tomorrow.

00:59:01 #792 Listen, you might get hurt.

00:59:03 #793 I might.

00:59:05 #794 If you think I'm gonna pay nursemaid to know I'm your crazy.

00:59:08 #795 I've had these kids all day.

00:59:10 #796 I've had them since they were born.

00:59:13 #797 I'm telling you, I don't stay home with these kids tomorrow.

00:59:15 #798 Okay.

00:59:16 #799 And tomorrow I take the kids with me to the picket line.

00:59:31 #800 And so I came back the next day

00:59:34 #801 and every day for the next month.

00:59:37 #802 I kept Juanita in the coffee shack

00:59:39 #803 and when the weather was good

00:59:40 #804 and there was peace on the lines,

00:59:43 #805 I brought his crib outside.

00:59:47 #806 Estela played with the little ones.

00:59:49 #807 And Luis, Luis was in school.

00:59:57 #808 Ramon came every day, just watching.

01:00:01 #809 The ladies, well, they criticize Ramon

01:00:04 #810 for not keeping the kids.

01:00:08 #811 ["The Little Mermaid"]

01:00:23 #812 I let Sherry spend life tossing them.

01:00:25 #813 But then they cursed us, insulted us,

01:00:29 #814 called us foul names.

01:00:31 #815 started again. This time the wind was against us. We spread out as we had planned and I took the baby away from the danger as we had planned.

01:00:52 #816 But they couldn't break our line. They couldn't break it. I tried everything but

01:01:08 #817 shooting them down. They haven't tried locking them up. You want them all arrested?

01:01:14 #818 No, just the ring leaders, the fire leaders.

01:01:19 #819 The ones with big families.

01:01:21 #820 Barton, where's that boy?

01:01:23 #821 Girls, I'm going to give you a choice.

01:01:46 #822 You can go home or go to jail.

01:01:49 #823 No ifs ands abouts.

01:01:52 #824 Get out the picket line or get arrested.

01:01:55 #825 Okay, point them out.

01:02:01 #826 That one, Teresa, she's the leader.

01:02:04 #827 You're under arrest.

01:02:06 #828 Home of the loose girl. What's my thing?

01:02:08 #829 Keep marching sisters. Let's draw some discipline.

01:02:11 #830 But Teresa, they'll charge us with resisting arrest.

01:02:14 #831 Keep marching sisters. Keep marching.

01:02:16 #832 Mrs. Alasari, the old one.

01:02:28 #833 Shana Diaz, that one in the blue dress.

01:02:30 #834 Luis Porales, that one.

01:02:36 #835 Mrs. Kalinsky, the Anglo.

01:02:38 #836 Ruth Barn, she's the organized wife.

01:02:44 #837 Dalla Alvarez, the pretty one.

01:02:54 #838 The matte one.

01:02:58 #839 With the baby?

01:03:00 #840 She's Ramon Quintero's wife.

01:03:02 #841 I heard being here.

01:03:07 #842 Don't worry about Juanito.

01:03:09 #843 We can take care of Stella too.

01:03:11 #844 No, the baby stays with me.

01:04:42 #845 I have no bag.

01:04:45 #846 So will you please, please?

01:04:58 #847 They call me a lot.

01:05:00 #848 I was a fool, I shouldn't have.

01:05:02 #849 Don't hang around. We'll get some next time.

01:05:12 #850 Maybe Kendrick, they'll storm me up.

01:05:13 #851 We want him storming up.

01:05:15 #852 You want the what?

01:05:16 #853 The formula, the formula.

01:05:18 #854 We want them!

01:05:49 #855 Steve and Jill, keep them.

01:05:51 #856 What am I supposed to do?

01:05:52 #857 Feed him out of my own pocket.

01:05:57 #858 When are you going to settle this thing?

01:06:01 #859 What do you want, then, Lord?

01:06:36 #860 Aren't you saying enough of me?

01:06:38 #861 I come from my kids.

01:06:39 #862 They're in your jail.

01:06:40 #863 But you've played ever trump in your hand.

01:06:47 #864 They're not dead yet.

01:06:48 #865 Not every trump.

01:06:49 #866 Such as what?

01:06:53 #867 I can't shut them, James, uh?

01:06:55 #868 They keep yelling about a formula.

01:06:57 #869 What?

01:06:58 #870 A formula for their baby or something.

01:07:00 #871 His kid.

01:07:01 #872 Looky here.

01:07:27 #873 I got you some milk for the baby.

01:07:29 #874 So what's all the belly-eakin' about?

01:07:32 #875 That milk is no good.

01:07:35 #876 I'll be back.

01:07:41 #877 Run in the drugstore.

01:07:47 #878 You girls got only yourselves to blame for this.

01:07:50 #879 You could be back with your families in an hour.

01:07:53 #880 All you got to do is to sign a pledge

01:07:55 #881 not to go back on the picket line.

01:07:57 #882 Don't sign nothing for the sticker.

01:07:59 #883 No, you kids get out of those baskets.

01:10:04 #884 This is not the end.

01:10:35 #885 Three hours just to heat enough water to wash this dust.

01:10:38 #886 I'm telling you something.

01:10:40 #887 If this track is ever settled, which I doubt,

01:10:42 #888 I'll never go back to work for that company unless they install hot running water for us.

01:10:46 #889 It should have been a union demand from the beginning.

01:10:48 #890 You're telling me?

01:10:50 #891 Like Charlie Widow says, there are two kinds of slaves.

01:11:08 #892 We're a slavey and a domestic slavey.

01:11:11 #893 The woman questioned, he calls it.

01:11:13 #894 The woman questioned?

01:11:15 #895 Yeah, the problem. What to do about it?

01:11:18 #896 So, what does he want to do about it?

01:11:21 #897 He says give him quality.

01:11:23 #898 Equality is in job, equality is in home.

01:11:26 #899 and also, sexy quality.

01:11:29 #900 What do you mean, sexy quality?

01:11:32 #901 You know, lo que es bueno para el hombre, es bueno para la mujer.

01:11:38 #902 He's some organizer that Charlie.

01:11:40 #903 He can too organize a wife right out of your home.

01:11:43 #904 Papa, can't I leave now?

01:11:53 #905 There's a meeting at the Junior Shop's stores.

01:11:55 #906 The what?

01:11:56 #907 The Junior Shop's stores.

01:11:57 #908 There's lots of ways we can help.

01:11:59 #909 Don't I have enough trouble

01:12:00 #910 without them chipping you up to Reborn School?

01:12:02 #911 But you need all the help you can get.

01:12:04 #912 You've got a helper on the house.

01:12:05 #913 You've got me doing everything.

01:12:07 #914 Mama, they used to make me dry the dishes.

01:12:08 #915 You should have helped her without being asked.

01:12:15 #916 How do you feel? I'm OK. Four nights.

01:12:28 #917 How did you sleep?

01:12:30 #918 We raised so much for the island we brought coffee.

01:12:32 #919 I nearly lost my wife, Brad, killing so much.

01:12:35 #920 But I was a silly cat, but a baby.

01:12:37 #921 They're asleep.

01:12:44 #922 Did you have to find a place not to go back to the ticket line?

01:12:46 #923 No, no, we wouldn't do it.

01:12:50 #924 But if you go back, they'll lock you up again.

01:12:52 #925 No, no, they say we've had enough of us.

01:12:54 #926 We're talking crazy.

01:12:59 #927 When I'm not to lose. Hi.

01:13:01 #928 Hi, Liz.

01:13:02 #929 Good-bye, Teresa.

01:13:03 #930 Hello.

01:13:04 #931 It's all set.

01:13:07 #932 Consola Squad can pick the day off tomorrow.

01:13:09 #933 We're taking over.

01:13:10 #934 All right.

01:13:11 #935 We're to work, it's hard.

01:13:12 #936 Look, you and me.

01:13:15 #937 All right.

01:13:16 #938 But later, we have got a meeting now.

01:13:18 #939 A meeting?

01:13:19 #940 Yes, to plan for the picket line tomorrow.

01:13:21 #941 You can sit in if you want.

01:13:22 #942 No.

01:13:25 #943 Let us see.

01:13:26 #944 Who's available?

01:13:27 #945 China's husband is set up town on that delegation to see the governor.

01:13:31 #946 And a whole lot of men going on a fuel hunting expedition tomorrow.

01:13:34 #947 30 or 40 of them.

01:13:35 #948 So they're wide-legged around, too.

01:13:37 #949 But we can ask them to keep our kids

01:13:40 #950 so the rest of us can...

01:13:41 #951 Why are we good or do about him, Esperanza?

01:13:46 #952 It's about time he was heartbroken.

01:13:49 #953 Maybe if a delegation of us talked to him,

01:13:51 #954 I have to work it out with him myself.

01:13:57 #955 He's got a friend in the Bureau of Man.

01:14:25 #956 You know what he says?

01:14:26 #957 They ain't never gonna open that man up again.

01:14:29 #958 How come?

01:14:31 #959 Oh, he said, the door had run out.

01:14:33 #960 So help me.

01:14:35 #961 Bull. A lot of bull. That's a rich mind. I know.

01:14:41 #962 But what's the difference?

01:14:42 #963 They'll never sell it. Never.

01:14:44 #964 Hey, what you know?

01:14:47 #965 It's him. It's him, the president. The president of the company.

01:14:51 #966 Let me see this.

01:14:53 #967 Listen to this. Man of distinction.

01:14:56 #968 Jay Hamilton Miller, financier, business executive,

01:15:00 #969 Board chairman of continental factors and president of Delaware Zinc Incorporated

01:15:07 #970 Wait a minute wait a minute now some more and

01:15:11 #971 enthusiastic sportsman and expert marksman mr. Miller manages to find time every year for an African safari

01:15:18 #972 He leaves this month for Kenya where he hopes to bag his 13th line. I'm gonna frame this look Ramon

01:15:30 #973 I'm going to look at the larger.

01:15:33 #974 The guy is a wine hunter.

01:15:37 #975 What you expecting to have it.

01:15:40 #976 Boy, oh boy, would I like to get me some dimmest.

01:15:43 #977 I ain't taking me for weeks.

01:15:45 #978 How about it? Let's take off for a couple of days.

01:15:48 #979 Why ask me?

01:15:49 #980 Am I running this strike?

01:15:51 #981 If you want permission to go over the hill.

01:15:53 #982 Go ask the ladies auxiliary.

01:15:56 #983 Wait a minute.

01:16:13 #984 You weren't waiting for me.

01:16:17 #985 Don't make me know he left at ten minutes.

01:16:20 #986 The first night I am home, can't you bear a sight of me?

01:16:29 #987 But you wanted to talk.

01:16:33 #988 Go on this way.

01:17:00 #989 I just can't go on living with you.

01:17:02 #990 Not this way.

01:17:03 #991 No, we can't go on this way.

01:17:06 #992 We can't go back to the old way either.

01:17:08 #993 The old way?

01:17:09 #994 What's your new way?

01:17:10 #995 What does it mean?

01:17:11 #996 You right neglect your kids?

01:17:13 #997 Where are you going?

01:17:29 #998 Huntington.

01:17:30 #999 What?

01:17:31 #1000 Run out.

01:17:32 #1001 Alone?

01:17:33 #1002 No.

01:17:34 #1003 You can't.

01:17:38 #1004 Why not? I'm not needed here.

01:17:40 #1005 But you are needed.

01:17:42 #1006 Especially now with most of the other men away.

01:17:44 #1007 You are the captain of the standby squad.

01:17:46 #1008 Sure, the standby squad.

01:17:48 #1009 Stand by for the funeral.

01:17:50 #1010 Who's funeral?

01:17:51 #1011 We are doing all right.

01:17:53 #1012 There hasn't been a scot near the picket line for three days.

01:17:56 #1013 And you know why?

01:17:57 #1014 Because the company knows they can starve us out.

01:18:00 #1015 Even if it takes them another two or three months.

01:18:02 #1016 What's it to them if the months are done a little longer?

01:18:05 #1017 It's a lot to them. They do anything to open that mine.

01:18:08 #1018 Ah, they've got other minds. You don't see the larger picture.

01:18:15 #1019 They've got millions, millions. They can outlast us and they know it.

01:18:21 #1020 You mean you are ready to give up?

01:18:23 #1021 Who said anything about giving up?

01:18:25 #1022 I'll never go back to that company on my knees. Never.

01:18:29 #1023 You want to go down fighting, is that it?

01:18:32 #1024 I don't want to go down fighting.

01:18:35 #1025 I want to win.

01:18:38 #1026 Come on, we are not getting weaker.

01:18:40 #1027 We are stronger than ever before.

01:18:42 #1028 They are getting weaker.

01:18:44 #1029 They thought they could break our ticket line and they failed.

01:18:47 #1030 And now they can't win, unless they pull out something big and pull it that fast.

01:18:51 #1031 Like what?

01:18:54 #1032 I don't know.

01:19:01 #1033 It's like a law before it's done.

01:19:04 #1034 Charlie Vidal says.

01:19:09 #1035 Don't throw Charlie Vidal up to me.

01:19:11 #1036 Charlie's my friend. I need friends.

01:19:17 #1037 Why are you so afraid to have me as your friend?

01:19:20 #1038 I don't know what you're talking about.

01:19:22 #1039 You don't. Have you learned nothing from this strike?

01:19:31 #1040 Why are you afraid to have me at your side?

01:19:34 #1041 Do you still think you can have dignity, only if I have none?

01:19:37 #1042 Talk of dignity. After what you've been doing.

01:19:40 #1043 Yes, I talk of dignity.

01:19:43 #1044 The Anglo-Bassist looked down on you and you hate him for it.

01:19:46 #1045 Stained your place, you dirty Mexican.

01:19:49 #1046 That's what they tell you.

01:19:51 #1047 But why must you say to me,

01:19:53 #1048 stained your place?

01:19:54 #1049 Do you feel better having someone lower than you?

01:19:57 #1050 Shut up. You're talking great.

01:19:59 #1051 Who's next shall I stand on to make me feel superior?

01:20:02 #1052 And what will I have out of it?

01:20:04 #1053 I don't want anything lower than I am.

01:20:06 #1054 I am low enough already.

01:20:07 #1055 I want to rise then to push everything up with me if I go.

01:20:10 #1056 Will you be still?

01:20:12 #1057 And if you can't understand this, you are a fool.

01:20:14 #1058 Because you can't win this fight without me.

01:20:17 #1059 You can't win anything without me.

01:20:18 #1060 Oh.

01:20:19 #1061 That would be the old way.

01:20:24 #1062 Never try it on me again.

01:20:27 #1063 Never.

01:20:41 #1064 I'm going to bed now.

01:20:43 #1065 Sleep where you please.

01:20:45 #1066 But not with me.

01:21:07 #1067 So they had a little taste of what it's like to be a woman.

01:21:11 #1068 They ran away.

01:21:14 #1069 With Ramon's pride,

01:21:17 #1070 I spoke out of the bitterness in me,

01:21:19 #1071 and he was hurt.

01:21:23 #1072 Anything worth learning is a hurt.

01:21:26 #1073 These changes come with pain.

01:21:29 #1074 For other husbands too.

01:21:32 #1075 Not just Ramon.

01:21:53 #1076 You mean you're ready to give up?

01:21:55 #1077 You want to go down fighting, is that it?

01:21:58 #1078 I don't want to go down fighting.

01:22:00 #1079 I want to win.

01:22:04 #1080 Ramon, we are not getting weaker.

01:22:07 #1081 We are stronger than ever before.

01:22:09 #1082 They are getting weaker.

01:22:13 #1083 Have you learned nothing from this strike?

01:22:21 #1084 I can feel it coming.

01:22:24 #1085 It's like a lull before the storm.

01:22:26 #1086 They thought they could break our picket lines and they failed.

01:22:29 #1087 And now they can't win unless they pull off something big and pull it up fast.

01:22:36 #1088 Brothers! We've got to go back!

01:22:46 #1089 Esperanza, where's Ramon? Did he go hunting with the others?

01:22:49 #1090 Where? Where can we find him, do you know? No.

01:22:52 #1091 Dear hunters, deserters, that's what they are.

01:22:54 #1092 Something's wrong. Charlie, tell us.

01:22:57 #1093 The company has an eviction order.

01:22:59 #1094 And my cop are the Quinteros!

01:23:07 #1095 You've been sent!

01:23:08 #1096 And I'm dead!

01:23:09 #1097 And my cop are the Quinteros!

01:23:15 #1098 You've been sent!

01:23:16 #1099 Don't worry, Quinteros gone hunting with the others.

01:23:24 #1100 A victim first, the rest will be easy.

01:23:26 #1101 Let their neighbors watch.

01:23:28 #1102 It'll scare some sense into them.

01:23:42 #1103 Do something?

01:23:46 #1104 All right, girls. Get back, get back.

01:24:02 #1105 There was a eviction at the Quinteros, please.

01:24:04 #1106 All right, girls.

01:24:06 #1107 All right, come on.

01:24:07 #1108 Pay any attention to them. Go back and get the rest of the stuff.

01:25:16 #1109 What are you saying?

01:25:48 #1110 This means they have given up trying to bake our thing at night.

01:25:51 #1111 Now we can all fight together. All of us.

01:25:53 #1112 Here, Quintaro, these women are obstructing justice.

01:26:30 #1113 You make them behave, Sadie.

01:26:32 #1114 I can't do nothing, Quintaro. You know how it is.

01:26:35 #1115 They won't listen to a man anymore.

01:26:37 #1116 You want me to lock them up again?

01:26:39 #1117 You want them in your lock up again?

01:26:44 #1118 The other guys put the bill.

01:27:05 #1119 What are the ideas?

01:28:55 #1120 I don't make policy.

01:28:57 #1121 I'll talk to New York. I think maybe we'd better settle this thing.

01:29:04 #1122 We didn't know then that we had won the strike, but our hearts were full.

01:29:21 #1123 And when Rabon said...

01:29:23 #1124 Thanks!

01:29:25 #1125 Sisters and brothers. Esperanza?

01:29:30 #1126 Thank you for your dignity.

01:29:33 #1127 You were right. Together we can push everything up with us.

01:29:39 #1128 as we go.

01:29:40 #1129 Then I knew we had one something they could never take away.

01:29:47 #1130 Something I could leave to my children,

01:29:49 #1131 and they, the salt of the earth,

01:29:52 #1132 would inherit it.