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appears in contemporary Chicano art. 48 The two labor organizers whose lives have attracted the attention of artists were both active in the 1930s: Luisa Moreno and Emma Tenayuca. Moreno was a national organizer for the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) which was involved in the pecan workers' strike in San Antonio, Texas during the thirties. Moreno served actively with the CIO and was the principal organizer in 1938 for the Congreso de 
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los Pueblos de Habla Español (Congress of Spanish-Speaking Peoples). Her portrait appears as part of a six-year project, the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a mural stretching more than a third of a mile and officially known as [[underline]] The History of California [[/underline]] which is directed by Judy Baca, Executive Director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center. Painted with large teams of local youth and assistant artists, the dynamic figure of Moreno, influenced by Baca's studies at the Siqueiros mural workshop in Cuernavaca, Mexico, is juxtaposed with a scene from the "zoot suit riots," (made into a play and then a film by Luis Valdéz of Teatro Campesino). Baca painted Moreno with strong brown features and a red dress and wrapped her in a yellow flag of the Congreso, backed by flags of her union. Her figure thrusts sharply forward contrasting with the use of escalated deep space provided by a railroad train and a plowed field behind her - spatial devices typical of Siqueiros. "The Great Wall of Tujunga," said one reviewer about the mural, "has the same heroic pioneer types you can see in your local post office, but often their skins are brown and black." 49
Emma Tenayuca, who appears in the upper right hand corner of Emigdio Vàsquez's mural [[underline]] Memories of the Past and Images of the Future [[/underline]] was purportedly a "fiery little Mexican woman about twenty years old" who was a leader among strikers and allegedly an admitted communist.50 In 1938, thousands of pecan shellers of San Antonio, primarily women who worked for about $2.00 a week in sweatshops packed with as many as 100 workers without ventilation or sanitary facilities, walked off the job when

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