Rito Valencia on the picket line during a strike at Phelps-Dodge, 1946-1949 (?), Los Angeles.

Valencia and other members of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, Local 700, picketed at the Phelps-Dodge Cooper Products plant at 6100 Garfield Avenue in Los Angeles to demand higher wages and improved benefits.

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