ABSTRACT
On June 1, 1906, workers at the Consolidated Copper Company mine in Cananea, Sonora, went on strike. The event is considered a precursor to the Mexican Revolution, in part because of the efforts of the Mexican Liberal Party to unite the miners and assist them in formulating their demands and presenting them to their employer. Working Mexicans have celebrated the organizational force of the miners and the demands they made, decrying what they have considered evidence of the Mexican state’s preferential treatment of foreigners. All Mexicans employed to work by this company will have the right to promotions as long as they are qualified. Each Mexican who is mistreated by foreigners is worth the same or more than them, if he unites with his brothers and demands his rights. It would be an unheard of exaggeration to say that a Mexican is not equal to a Yankee, a Negro, or a Chinaman, in the very land of Mexicans.
