Plate 11: striking workers in June 1906 protesting for equal rights from their American employees, the mining company Green Consolidated, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Pablo Esteban O'Higgins American
 Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican

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See comment for 1993.1133.1–85.

The government of President Díaz invested heavily in mining and railway projects overseen by U.S. and British businesses. Indigenous workers were paid half the salary of their American counterparts, which led to a strike in June 1906 at the mining town of Cananea (Sonora). The workers’ demands were rejected and the event resulted in deaths, but the discontent spread throughout Mexico and fueled the revolution.

Plate 11: striking workers in June 1906 protesting for equal rights from their American employees, the mining company Green Consolidated, from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution), Pablo Esteban O'Higgins (American, Salt Lake City, Utah 1904–1983 Mexico City), Linocut

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