The issues the miners strike for include equity in wages with Anglo workers, and health and safety issues. Ramon Quintero helps organize the strike, but at home he treats his wife, Esperanza Quintero, as a second class citizen. Esperanza, who is pregnant with their third child, is usually passive, but she changes her attitude when the men are forced to end their picketing by a Taft-Hartley Act injuction.
Elenco: Rosaura Revueltas , Juan Chacón , Will Geer , David Wolfe , Mervin Williams , David Sarvis , Clinton Jencks , Virginia Jencks , Henrietta Williams , Ernesto Velázquez , Ángela Sánchez , Joe T. Morales , Clorinda Alderette , Charles Coleman , Víctor Torres , E.A. Rockwell , William Rockwell , Floyd Bostick .