{"id":103482,"date":"2026-07-08T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103482"},"modified":"2026-07-07T15:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:08:42","slug":"the-korean-war-week-107-america-on-strike-july-7-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/07\/08\/the-korean-war-week-107-america-on-strike-july-7-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"The Korean War Week 107 &#8211; America on Strike! &#8211; July 7, 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gg4GGuCFcyI?si=unRa4hXgirwihIi6\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Korean War by Indy Neidell<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 7 Jul 2026<\/p>\n<p>The US Steelworkers Union strike enters its second month this week with no end in sight and the lack of steel production is affecting the war, worsening what is already an artillery shell crisis. President Harry Truman even considers taking over the steel industry to salvage the war effort. In South Korea, the constitution is amended to allow direct popular Presidential elections rather than the President being chosen by the National Assembly and in Chicago, at the end of the week the US Republican Party Convention begins, with Douglas MacArthur giving the keynote address.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:39 Recap<br \/>\n01:09 Local SK News<br \/>\n03:22 Bombing the Power Plants<br \/>\n05:24 Artillery Crisis and Steelworkers Strike<br \/>\n09:53 Republican Convention Begins<br \/>\n13:46 Summary<br \/>\n13:59 Conclusion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korean War by Indy Neidell Published 7 Jul 2026 The US Steelworkers Union strike enters its second month this week with no end in sight and the lack of steel production is affecting the war, worsening what is already an artillery shell crisis. President Harry Truman even considers taking over the steel industry to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,7,5,13],"tags":[279,281,1452,859,1120,269,1551,392],"class_list":["post-103482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-korea","tag-koreanwar","tag-macarthur","tag-manufacturing","tag-pows","tag-propaganda","tag-syngmanrhee","tag-unions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qV4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103483,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103482\/revisions\/103483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}