Writer's Strike Context to History

Interesting piece on strikes and Disney. I knew Walt hated unions.

Walt Disney was so far to the right on the political spectrum he’d make Bill O’Reilly sound like Ugo Chavez. On May 29, 1941, 293 Disney animators who were members of the Screen Cartoonists Guild struck the studio after Disney fired animator Art Babbitt, who was exercising his legal right to organize.

Several weeks later, President Franklin Roosevelt actually had to send a federal labor conciliator to Hollywood to work out a settlement. He found in the Guild's favor on each and every single issue. The Printing Council forced the withdrawal of Floyd Gottfriedson’s Mickey Mouse comic strip (signed by Disney, of course) from its newspapers. Technicolor refused to process Disney film until the studio recognized the Cartoonists Guild.