Writing prompt for "Los Mineros"
Movie Review Due on Oct. 19, 2017
Please write about all these issues:
This movie addressed the time period between the early 1900s through the post-WWII period.
The movie is set in Clifton-Morenci, Arizona. However, it included events in Cananea, Mexico, Bisbee, Arizona and Chihuahua, Mexico.
The movie also addressed the situation that Mexican and Mexican American copper miners faced in the early part of the 20th century in the Southwest United States and in northern Mexico.
- Explain the dual-wage system
- What was the Phelps Dodge Company? Who was Mr. Douglas?
- Describe the difference between the working conditions of Anglos and Mexicans.
- What was "Chihuahuita?"
What formed in the United States that was beneficial to the Mexican workers?
MUTUALISTAS such as the "Liga Protectora," and "Allianza Hispana."
Discuss the STRIKE of June 3, 1903 - led by Abram Salcido. Arizona Rangers dispatched, the Great Flood, Martial Law imposed. What happened?
- Discuss "Miner's Consumption." What is it?
- What happened in Cananea, Mexico? Write about the IWW and the Bisbee
Deportations.
- What happened to the copper industry in the WWI years, the 1920s and the 1930s?
- Discuss the repatriation of ethnic Mexicans during the Great Depression.
- How did the next generation of workers rally to achieve fairness is their workplace?
- Discuss the wartime demand for copper and the eventual formation of their union.
- Discuss how WWII service in the military enabled veterans to demand better wages and worker treatment. Remember this is called the "Mexican American Generation."