LABOR: La Pasionaria de Texas

Everyone in San Antonio knows about little Emma Tenayuca, a slim, vivacious labor organizer with black eyes and a Red philosophy. She first shone in her native city a year ago during a garment strike, has been at the forefront of most of its civil commotions since. With San Antonio's police chief, she carries on a feud which has landed her in jail on countless occasions. Among the Spanish-speaking San Antonio proletariat, she is known as "La Pasionaria de Texas." Since her husband, Homer Brooks, former Communist nominee for Governor of Texas, lives...

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