Cipriano Montoya

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:New Mexico
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Cipriano Montoya was a Mine-Mill Local 890 member jailed for 90 days for honoring the picket line during the Empire Zinc strike at Bayard, New Mexico. The strike and its mass arrests became the basis of the blacklisted film Salt of the Earth.

Case

Charges: Criminal contempt.
Sentence: 90 days. Charges as recorded: Criminal contempt — for defying an anti-picketing injunction during the Empire Zinc strike.
Convicted: Yes

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