Plate 11: striking workers in June 1906 protesting for equal rights from their American employees, the mining company Green Consolidated, from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Gracias al apoyo del presidente Porfirio Díaz, el empresario estadounidense William Cornell Greene estableció en México plantas para la minería del cobre. Los trabajadores norteamericanos percibían un salario que prácticamente duplicaba el de los mexicanos, que a menudo describían su nación como «madre de extranjeros y madrastra de mexicanos». En la mina de Cananea, a principios de junio de 1906, los mineros mexicanos plantearon a los ejecutivos de la compañía su exigencia de recibir la misma retribución. Al denegárseles la petición, los mineros organizaron una huelga que fue sofocada con una carga violenta en la que participaron soldados norteamericanos. La presencia de extranjeros armados en el territorio nacional provocó una oleada de indignación contra la administración de Díaz.
See also comment for 1993.1133.1–85.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate 11: striking workers in June 1906 protesting for equal rights from their American employees, the mining company Green Consolidated, from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution)
- Series/Portfolio: Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana (Prints of the Mexican Revolution)
- Artist: Pablo Esteban O'Higgins (American, Salt Lake City, Utah 1904–1983 Mexico City)
- Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
- Date: 1947
- Medium: Linocut
- Dimensions: Sheet: 10 5/8 × 15 3/4 in. (27 × 40 cm)
Image: 8 11/16 × 11 13/16 in. (22 × 30 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Norman S. Rothschild, 1993
- Object Number: 1993.1133.12
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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