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- Title
Remembering Salt: How a Blacklisted Hollywood Movie Brought the Spectre of McCarthyism to a Small Canadian Town.
- Authors
Verzuh, Ron
- Abstract
The article focuses on the American motion picture "Salt of the Earth" directed by Herbert Biberman, McCarthyism, an anti-communist movement named after United States Senator, Joseph McCarthy, and anti-communism resistance in the small town of Trail, British Columbia, in the 1950s. It discusses the film's reception and legacy and Mexican-American trade unionist Anita Torres and her trip to Trail in January 1954 to promote the film, which was blacklisted and was the subject of a McCarthyite fear campaign aimed at stopping it from being shown. The Taft-Hartley Act, a U.S. federal law restricting the activities and powers of labor unions, and the involvement of the labor union Local 480, which is part of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Mine-Mill), are also mentioned.
- Subjects
TRAIL (B.C.); SALT of the Earth (Film); MCCARTHYISM; BIBERMAN, Herbert J.; TORRES, Anita; MOTION pictures &; politics; UNITED States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947; INTERNATIONAL Union of Mine, Mill, &; Smelter Workers; HISTORY of British Columbia; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Labour / Travail, 2015, Vol 76, p165
- ISSN
0700-3862
- Publication type
Article