Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.234
Object Name
Poster
Title
United Farm Workers Huelga (Strike) Poster
Place
[Cuba & Caribbean & West Indies]
People
Cesar Chavez; Dolores Huerta
Events
Delano Grape Strike
Date
1965
Creator(s)
Description
Poster of screen-print painting - says "HUELGA!" in black text at the top of the print; this means "strike" in Spanish. The print shows five farmers working on a field - the sky is a blue colour and the field is green with brown lined sketches on the field. The bottom left of the poster has a large bird logo - this is the united farm workers logo. The bottom right of the poster shows a signature from the artist "Anna Strickland." This poster is calling for a strike - the poster promotes the United Farm Workers, an organisation founded primarily by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to improve wages and working conditions that many migrant farm workers experienced in California fields. The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labour union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated from the merger of two workers' rights organizations, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) led by organizer Larry Itliong, and the
National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. They became allied and transformed from workers' rights organizations into a union as a result of a series of strikes in 1965, when the most Filipino farmworkers of the AWOC in Delano, California, initiated a grape strike, and the NFWA went on strike in support. The poster is bright and colourful. It is in good condition with slight creases.
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