|
* * * * * * * * * * * The 1936 Seattle Post-Intelligencer Strike was a strike that took place between August 19th, 1936 and November 29th, 1936. It started as the result of two senior staff members being fired after forming an alliance and joining The Newspaper Guild. The strike halted production of the newspaper for the duration of the strike. The strike ended with a formal recognition of The Newspaper Guild. ==Background== The owner of the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' was William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was born in April 1863, and by the 1920s, a quarter of all Americans were reading one of his papers. He also owned an International News Service and six magazines including ''Cosmopolitan'' and ''Good Housekeeping''. He later owned a television newsreel and a film company and once considered running for the President of the United States. Hearst is credited as a founder of yellow journalism by utilizing sensationalism or crude exaggeration in his publications. The most famous example of Hearst's yellow journalism was prior to the Spanish–American War. He consistently published articles about ongoing conflicts between the Spanish and the Cuban Revolutionaries, often over-exaggerating events that transpired or fabricating events altogether, which was credited for laying the groundwork for the Spanish–American War by angering the American people. Hearst's "combat dispatches" turned out to be correspondents at luxury hotel resorts whose sources were their own imaginations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.biography.com/people/william-randolph-hearst-9332973#later-career )〕 During the first World War the city of Seattle produced one-fifth of the United States wartime ship tonnage. A shipyard strike in 1919 brought national attention to Seattle when workers went on strike to keep their high wartime wages, which led to the general strike from February 6th to the 10th, the longest general strike in American history. The strike fueled American fears of radical and socialist values. This general strike gave Seattle a reputation of being at the heart of political radicalism. During the Great Depression, "Hoovervilles" started popping up around the city where nearly 1,000 unemployed residents would gather to stay in shacks at the empty shipyard south of Pioneer Square. World War II created an economic revival for companies like The Boeing Company, which increased employment by more than 1,200.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/seattle-facts/brief-history-of-seattle )〕 The American Newspaper Guild was founded in 1933 and led by a columnist named Heywood Broun. It was founded because traditional independent editorial workers were upset with their pay. In 1936, the Guild became affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Unions in 1937 (two of the largest unions organizations in America).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newsguild.org/about/history )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1936 Seattle Post-Intelligencer strike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|