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Goldman 31 the company reduced wages. Organized by the UCAPAWA, it proved to be the largest Chicano-led strike of the 1930s. Police and tear gas were brought in to disperse the pickets and charges of "Communistic influences" were unsuccessfully used as a means to break the strike. Tenayuca was a special target of city officials; she participated in a sit-down at City Hall and was jailed along with 1000 other strikers. Vásquez derived his image of Tenayuca raising a clenched fist from an old photograph in a pamphlet of the Texas Civil Liberties Union, recently republished, 51 but she appears more bland in the painting than in the original photograph. Rupert García freely adapted a photograph of Tenayuca in jail from the same republished source for a 1977 pho-offset poster commissioned by the National Association of Chicano Social Scientists. Working with black, white, and subtle tones of orange, García contrasts the polka-dot dress pattern of Tenayuca's shoulders and collar with the untextured head, hair, and background. The bars of the cell are simplified into a flat grid behind the head. Delores Huerta is the most recent in a long line of women labor organizers. Born in Stockton, California of a family that had lived in New Mexico since the 17th century, she is the daughter of a migrant farm worker and an ambitious mother who never allowed her daughter to pick crops in the field. Huerta is articulate and self-confident and has been politically active since age twenty-five following the example of her mother. She is not troubled that César Chávez, whom she admires, is the person receiving all the publicity; she thinks of herself as a "soldado razo" (common soldier) of the movement. I am "just a person working at what I am supposed to be doing. The fact that I get publicity is sort of a by-product of the union. But there's an awful lot of people who have worked continuously since the union started, a lot of women, for example, who nobody even knows." 52 But her leadership is undeniable. She convinced one Democratic Party Convention to support the lettuce boycott; she is one of the union's chief negotiators where she has held her own
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