Which statement about the Disney strike of 1941 is true?

• A. Fewer people on the Disney staff had no particular passion for the cartoon medium.
• B. Walt fired union-activists at the studio in an attempt to prevent a strike
• C. As the studio expanded to factory proportions, workers had less direct contact with Walt.
• D. The strike occurred after the war ended.

Answer: (C)

As the studio grew, it began to run more like a factory, with many layers of management and separate departments. That bigger, more decentralized setup meant many workers interacted with supervisors rather than with Walt Disney himself, so his day-to-day creative supervision didn’t reach everyone as directly as it did in the early, smaller studio. That distance helped create frustration over pay, working conditions, and recognition, which contributed to the push for collective bargaining through a union. The 1941 strike emerged from these tensions, when workers organized to address those concerns because direct lines of communication with the top leadership had become limited by the studio’s expansion. The idea that the strike happened after the war ended isn’t accurate, since it occurred in 1941, before the U.S. entered World War II.