Hands-Off Labour Forum
The Making and Unmaking of National Working-Class Radio Broadcasting in Canada, 1935-1944
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3983057 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcus Klee (Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Pages | 107 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25143913 |
| OpenAlex | W1560351342 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This article examines the Worker Educational Association's National Labour Forum radio series as it developed into a popular, and politically contentious, program with a weekly national audience of 100,000. The series quickly evoked the condemnation of C.D. Howe, head of the powerful Department of Munitions and Supply, and embroiled the program and the WEA in the sectarian struggles of the labour movement. Eventually the WEA was expelled from its central role in the production of Labour Forum and control was transferred to the state's Wartime Information Board and its Committee of Industrial Morale. The Trades and Labour Congress and Canadian Congress of Labour bureaucrats slowly responded to a persistent chorus of protest from workers and union locals, withdrawing their support one year prior to its cancellation in 1944. Resumes Cet article examine la serie d'emissions radiophoniques National Labour Forum, de la Worker Educational Association, alors qu'elle devint un programme populaire, mais aussi politiquement conteste, avec une audience hebdomadaire de 100,000. La serie fut rapidement condamnee par C.D. Howe, dirigeant du puissant ministere des Munitions et des Approvisionnement. Le programme et la WEA furent aussi meles aux luttes intestines du mouvement ouvrier. En fin de compte, la WEA fut expulsee de son role central dans la production de Labour Forum et le controle de l'emission fut transfere a la Commission d'information en temps de guerre. Le Congres des Metiers et du Travail du Canada et le Congres Pancanadien du Travail retirerent leur appuie au programme en 1943, suite aux protestations persistantes de travailleurs et de syndicats locaux, soit un an avant son annulation
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |