 |
| Perón signed the Status of Professional Journalist |
The First Congress of Journalists, held in Córdoba in 1938, caused a upheavals in both groups that gather journalists and media owners. It is envisioned that some workers were not prepared to be pampered by their employers with praise about his dedication to service and the importance of their role in society.
Specifically, as is often written in the newspapers, the journalists also had some more mundane needs, such as stop working at certain ages, or a receipt if it was fired. Trifles as the owners of the papers address the magnitude of the role of journalists to the story.
That the First Congress Journalists' union took a turn, divided the nascent Argentina Federation of Journalists (FAP) and from one side were the workers, and other patterns. Santa Fe did not attend the Congress did not have a guild itself but several attempts to construct temporary associations that gather either to the owners and journalists.
Only in 1940, is the first group of dye in the union, the Association of Journalists of Santa Fe, composed of leaders socialists, communists and anarchists. Since
that Congress laid the groundwork for what later become the Status of Professional Journalists, the first compendium of rights attending press men as workers.
By 1943 a precarious retirement law for journalists was about to become obsolete, and businesses pushed in that direction. In Buenos Aires, the leader of the FAP Octavio Palazzolo, said the situation in the sector with national and began a series of meetings with Secretary of Labor and Welfare. Juan Domingo Perón
take to it the draft statute presented by the FAP, said: " I look good, let's give handle."
different interpretations are open: Peron wanted to "co-opt the FAP, Luciano Losada analyzed by the offer the leader made a few positions in the lists of deputies, or a building to turn in House of Journalist. Palazzolo, who can not be accused of being "coopted", made another observation: " Our reality was clear ... What we were doing us a weak trade union, whether to apply the collective agreement depended on our own strength. The point was clear, a guild as journalists, could not achieve their goals through negotiation. Legislative regulation was required to give general support to the demands . "
But outside of the FAP were other journalists away from fear of relationship with Perón created the Argentine Union of Journalists (SAP), clearly Peronist and the leaders grouped in the Association named "Frog" Argentine Union of official newspapers. In Santa Fe, just would create the SAP in 1952.
The truth is that the Statute of Professional Journalists was signed into law on March 25, 1944 and December 1946 was endorsed by the National Congress. Peron said the Statute: " The social panorama offered by the media showed the tremendous contrast between businesses too rich too poor journalists. [...] We had not only the duty but also the right to demand for them a decent salary, as year after year out of public funds destined for the coffers of media companies millions of dollars in advertising concept and are granted franchises or cancel customs duties in a real state subsidy, which could not be an exclusive benefit employers, but to all who contribute their efforts fruitful to the betterment of our press . "
From then until 1955, was held March 25 to Labor Day holiday releases, certainly a lot more content up with union on 7 June that is commemorated as the day the journalist since 1938.
Santa Fe reactions
When the sanction of the statute was only a rumor, the media companies screamed to the sky. Already had some bugs that definitely beginning to change their legal status: in 1936 he met the two federal judges ruling against claims for dismissal without compensation of journalists and Oscar Manuel Sofovich di Leo, News Charts and The Press respectively. The defense of business was to invoke the public good news, which could not in any way be classified as trade. Judges, however, said that newspapers were business establishments and therefore was legally considered journalists as workers with rights protected by the Code of Commerce.
companies in 1944 threatened to go to court a statute was approved, and accused the journalists of the profession " as a means and not an end ." A means to live and not an end to educate "people."
recognizes it, the prosperity of many newspaper companies, but such was not the goal bonanza. The purpose of the newspapers, even in times of economic boom, was still teaching. The commercial success was an unintended bonus.
The passage of a statute for journalists violated, according Littoral, freedom of expression. Not in all respects, clarified. Who could defend " the freedom to exploit others without pretense ? Objected to this newspaper, in a text with the signing of Fermin Ponce, which does not contemplate situations, including hours and wages, which in common trades were discussed at the offices of Labor " without creating a statute Special each guild or profession. "
By October, there was a new Congress of the FAP. Is the opportunity for that, with the Statute in full force, Littoral express its opinion and make an assessment of the short years of unionization of journalists. Reinstall
a distinction between those for whom journalism was not a profession but a vocation, on the one hand, and those who, although they exercise such a ministry, "wished to engage in the business of writing with some economic independence that would ensure, in turn, journalists' ethics effectively. "
and shows a new current of thought about the profession, vocation, profession, which will be discussed for some time. " The latest trend, clearly in favor of the journalist's profession is in some ways incompatible with any other employment or public or private agency, said an ethical concern that should be duly appreciated by the public, who is also eligible to rely on private moral writing in the newspapers that, in some sense will guide its opinion or report on events or things that matter to be clearly interpreted . "
The journalists' union problems are few and unimportant, says the paper. But unionization has helped to permeate the thoughts of not only journalists, but also the organs in which they exercise their vocation.
The emerging divisions within the FAP against the role of Colonel would deepen even more and more.
Sources: Cintia Mignone
. The ministry of trade unionism. A history of the guild's press Santa Fe. Santa Fe, 2010. Parcero
Daniel. press workers. Ladrilleros journalism . Corregidor, Buenos Aires, 2010. Journal
El Litoral, 1944.
Argentina Federation of Journalists. Ten years Trade Organization. FAP, Buenos Aires, 1949.
Cane, James. 'Workers of the pen. " Journalists, owners and state in the transformation of the press in Argentina, 1935-1945 . In: Da Orden, María Liliana and Melon Pirro, Julio Cesar (ed.). Press and Peronism. Discourses, practices and companies. 1943-1958. Rosario, Prohistoria, 2007
0 comments:
Post a Comment