Screen and discuss "Salt of the Earth," the classic film inspired by a 1951 strike against the Empire Zinc Company in New Mexico. At the time, it was considered subversive, and was blacklisted because the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers sponsored it and many blacklisted Hollywood professionals helped produce it.
"We wanted to commit a crime to fit the punishment."
—Paul Jarrico, producer of "Salt of the Earth."
"Mexican workers at a zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the indomitable resolve of their wives, mothers, and daughters, that they eventually triumph."
—From IMDb.
Not Rated.
94 minutes (1 hour 34 minutes) in length.
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