Banana Workers' Strike
09 Eleuteria Chacon
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Carmen, near Davao City, Mindanao
Eleuteria Chacon, a leader of the strike at Diamond Farms, speaks at a meeting of farm workers. Workers on four plantations near Davao City refused to continue producing bananas because the price paid by Dole Corporation, the plantations' former owner, was so low.
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