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Josefina Amador Fierro Arancibia, for example, later joined the Communist Party U.S.A., and her daughter, Josefina Fierro Bright, helped form the Spanish Speaking People’s Congress in the late 1930s and 1940s. Perez, E. (1999). Sembradores: Ricardo Flores Magon y el Partido Mexicano.

[22] Gomez-Quinones, J.

(1994). Many were from indigenous communities, spoke indigenous languages, and were tied to families and social networks which still considered themselves indigenous.

[19] From Charles Clinton, IWW Camp delegate, Industrial Worker October 5, 1911. In the dusty desert town of Holtville, in California’s Imperial Valley near the Mexican border, Regeneración reported “real internationalism and solidarity” as French, Italian, Mexican, Argentinean, and North American Wobblies constructed a new labor temple in the agricultural town.[28] Certainly, working together and living in proximity did not erase previous prejudices, animosities, and hostilities.

From 1909 to 1911 the PLM was a popular cause of the left in the US, finding their staunchest allies in the IWW. The PLM made several attempts to create revolts in Mexico, in l906, l908 and 1910-l9ll. The PLM membership drew primarily from artisans, industrial workers, and a nascent middle class in the United States and Mexico and had a substantial following north of the border, with strong enclaves in California, Texas, and New Mexico.

Los Angeles, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Publications. the majority of [strikers] were Mexicans [and are]...setting a good example of solidarity.”[25] The Los Angeles Labor Press wrote of the 1915 Arizona miners’ strike that “everyone knows it was the Mexican miners that won the strike ….”[26]

PLM members of the IWW circulated within a larger international grouping of workers, rubbing shoulders with Swedes, Lithuanians, Greeks, Russians, Italians, and workers from other backgrounds — at work, on streets of cities such as Los Angeles, in towns, and on the road.

Revolución Mexicana”. “La vida que yo viví. Through its newspaper, The Industrial Worker , the IWW could mobilize over large areas. This spirit was directed toward organizing the Baja invasion. Madera, California, 1982, For Basiliza see Regeneración July 29, 1911, December 6, 1911, January 11, 1913, Leavenworth prison files of Fernando Palomarez.

They made flags, visited prisoners, and helped with plans for revolution. Regeneración carried greetings of solidarity from Cuba, France, and Italy; printed news of the general strike in Sweden; and followed Yaqui battles against Mexican government troops. Fernando Velarde’s son, Guillermo, helped form and lead the successful agricultural union, the Confederación de Uniones de Campesinos y Obreros Mexicanos (CUCOM), a union active in the l930s in southern California that eventually became part of the national CIO agricultural union.[38]

PLM Wobblies provide a window into the diverse history of Mexicans who migrated to the United States and into the historical roots of many Chicano families and communities.

Cambridge, Harvard University Press. activists in the United Farm Workers, the Chicano movement, and in current immigration struggles. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, Cienfuegos, A. T. (2003).

His route into Washington and Montana may have been following IWW free-speech fights which were erupting in l909.