Western New Mexico University
Other Books in Miller Library Regarding the Empire Zinc Company Strike, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, and “Salt of the Earth”
Berumen, Frank Javier Garcia. The Chicano/Hispanic Image in American Film.
1rst ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1995.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks PN1995.9 .H47 B47 1995
Notes: Includes discussion of “Salt of the Earth” (pp. 86-91), also short
biography of Rosaura Revueltas (p. 251) and interview with Revueltas (pp.
267-271).
Biberman, Herbert J. Salt of the Earth: The Story of a Film. Boston:
Beacon Press, 1965.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Treasure Room PN1997 .S14 1965
Notes: Includes “Screenplay of ‘Salt of the Earth,’” by Michael Wilson (pp.
315-373).
Cargill, Jack. “Empire and Opposition: The ‘Salt of the Earth’ Strike,” in Labor
in New Mexico: Unions Strikes, and Social History since 1881. 1rst ed.,
editor Robert Kern, 183-267. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD8083 .N6 L3 1983
Dinwoodie, D. H. “The Rise of the Mine-Mill Union in Southwestern Copper,”
in American Labor in the Southwest. editor James C. Foster, 46-56.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1982.
Call Number: Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD6508 .A447 1982
Notes: Discussion of International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in
the Southwest. Only passing reference to Silver City; no reference to Local 890
or the Empire Zinc Company strike.
Foster, James C. “The WFM and Mine-Mill in Historical Perspective,” in American
Labor in the Southwest. ed. James C. Foster, 13-18. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press, 1982.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD6508 .A447 1982
Garcia, Mario T. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of
Bert Corona. Latinos in American Society and Culture, Editor. Mario T.
Garcia, 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD 8073 .C67 G37 1994
Notes: Includes brief discussion of a convention of the Asociacion Nacional
Mexico-Americana, held in the Mine-Mill meeting hall in El Paso, Texas, in
1952, during the Empire Zinc Company strike, and the significance of the strike
to Mexican-Americans and Latin Americans (pp.173-179).
Gomez-Quinones, Juan. Mexican American Labor, 1790-1990. 1rst ed.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1994.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD8081 .M6 G658 1994
Notes: Includes summary of the Empire Zinc Company strike (pp. 183-186).
Hayes, David M. Guide to the Archives, International Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers: Records of the Amalgamated Bayard District Union Local
890: Including Older Locals 63, 69, 530, 604, and 628 International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Bayard, New Mexico, 1941-1975 University of
Colorado. Historical Collections, 1988.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Technical Services cat/0828
Notes: Photocopy.
Salt of the Earth. Paul Jarrico. Herbert J. Biberman. 94 min. Los
Angeles, Calif.: Independent Productions Corporation; International Union of
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, 1954.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Media Services PN1997 .S14 1987
Notes: Video release of the 1954 motion picture.
Jensen, Vernon H. Nonferrous Metals Industry Unionism, 1932-1954: A Story
of Leadership Controversy. Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor
Relations, 5. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1954.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD6515 .M5 J42
Notes: History of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers,
particularly the role of Communists, and I.U.M.M.S.W. relations with the C.I.O.
No reference to Local 890, the Empire Zinc Company strike, or Clinton Jencks.
New Mexico, Grant County, Silver City, and Hanover, N.M., are not in the index.
Kael, Pauline. I Lost It at the Movies. 1rst ed. Boston: Little,
Brown and Co., 1965.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks PN1994 .K25
Notes: Includes essay “Propaganda—‘Salt of the Earth’” (pp. 331-342) and Letter
to the Editor of Sight and Sound regarding Communist message of “Salt of
the Earth” (pp. 343-346).
Lorence, James J. The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How
Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Movie in Cold War America.
1rst ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks PN1997 .S14 L67 1999
Rosenblum, Jonathan D. Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of
1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America. 2nd ed. Ithaca: ILR
Press of Cornell University Press, 1998.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks HD5325 .M73 1983 M677 1998
Notes: Includes some discussion of the Morenci (Arizona) Miners Local 616 of
the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (pp. 31-37),
including brief reference to “Salt of the Earth” (p. 35). “Life after Death?
Epilogue to the Second Edition, 1998” (pp. 231-246) describes Local 890's relations
with Phelps Dodge at the Chino Mines in the 1980s and 1990s.
Ruiz, Vicki L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in
Twentieth-Century America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks E184 .M5 R86 1998
Notes: Includes brief discussion of the role of women in the Empire Zinc strike
and in “Salt of the Earth” (pp. 84-86), and photographs of the women and
children on the picket line, including Elvira Molano (figs. 34-36).
Salomon, Larry R. “It's Our Union, Too: Mexican American Women Rescue the ‘Salt
of the Earth’ Strike.” in Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in
Communities of Color. Larry R. Salomon, 31-40. Berkeley, CA: Chardon Press,
1998.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Circulating Stacks E184 .A1 R66 1998
Torrez, Lorenzo. Juan Chacon (Quintero in the Film Salt of the Earth).
Tucson, Ariz.: Salt of the Earth Labor College, 19??
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Treasure Room cat/tr/1092
Notes: Author was a participant in the Empire Zinc Company strike and the
making of “Salt of the Earth.”
Wilson, Michael. “Salt of the Earth.” California Quarterly 11, no. 4
(1953): 3-59.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Treasure Room PN1997 .S14 1953
Notes: Screenplay.
Wilson, Michael. Salt of the Earth: Screenplay. Commentary by Deborah
Silverton Rosenfelt. Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1978.
Call Number: WNMU Miller Library Treasure Room PN1997 .S14 1978