Английская Википедия:Ford Strikers Riot
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Ford Strikers Riot is a 1941 photograph which shows a strikebreaker getting beaten by United Auto Workers (UAW). Photographer Milton Brooks captured the image and it won the first Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942.
In the image, workers were picketing at the Ford Motor Company and a man clashed with the Union men who were picketing. The man was a strikebreaker and the photo shows him being beaten by striking United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers. The image has been called a portrayal of the struggle in America between capital and labor.
Background
The image was taken in Dearborn, Michigan at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company during a worker Strike action on April 3, 1941.[1][2] The image was captured by The Detroit News photographer Milton Brooks.[3] A peaceful picketing of the Ford Motor Company was interrupted when a single man clashed with the Union men who were picketing. The man ignored the advice of the Michigan State Police and crossed the picket lines. Brooks waited with other photo journalists outside the Ford factory gates. Brooks described what happened, "I saw a man pick a fight with some of the pickets." Brooks took only one photograph and he said, "I took the picture quickly, hid the camera... ducked into the crowd... a lot of people would have liked to wreck that picture.[4] In the forty years of Ford Motor Company history they had never been closed as a result of a worker strike. The workers defied the company, the state police and the strike breakers.[5]
Description
The image shows a strikebreaker being beaten by striking United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers.[6] The picture shows a man with his coat pulled over his head. The man is surrounded by eight men who have clenched fists and clubs. After the photo was taken, the man was bleeding and stunned and had to be taken to the Ford Motor Company's hospital.[4] The Times of Shreveport, Louisiana described the scene by saying, "...strikers rain blows on a man who shields himself with his coat in an early morning outbreak of hostilities..."[7]
Reception
The image won the first Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942.[6][5] The members of the Pulitzer jury were Herbert Brucker, Richard F. Crandell and Roscoe B. Ellard.[8] There were 109 entries to the new photography category. The Pulitzer jury selected 11 finalists and after deliberating they selected Ford Strikers Riot as the winner. The Pulitzer jury said that it is a "brutal picture, it sums up much of the labor history of 1941."[9] The award was accompanied by US$500 prize (Шаблон:Inflation).[10]
In Carol Quirke's 2012 book Eyes on Labor, she stated that photography plays a partisan role for both employers and employees. She said the image is a portrayal of the struggle in America between capital and labor.[11] The Los Angeles Times referred to the photograph as a "dramatic picture of a gang in action".[12]
See also
- Battle of the Overpass, another famous photograph and incident.
- Ford Hunger March
- List of photographs considered the most important
References
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