O trabalhismo no Amazonas: o periódico Tribuna Popular como instrumento de “orientação das hostes trabalhistas”

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyze the process of Workforce Movement's emergence and elaboration in Amazonas in early 1930s. This period was characterized by the rise of Getulio Vargas as president of the provisional Government. Amazonas, in this context, lived the reordering of its political forces. The fading of the oligarchic system, gave oppotunity to the projection of a new regional political leadership of Vargas' projects. At the same time, we were living important changes in the relationship between governments and unions, indicated by the foundation of the Ministry of Labor, Industry and Commerce in late 1930. Since then, the union movement becomes better observed by some political leaders who, in Amazonas, came to align themselves with this segment, and in some cases, acted as agents of Vargas policy with workers' organizations. In this context, some leaders such as Álvaro Botelho Maia and Luís Tirelli begin to stand out in the local political context. The Partido Socialista Amazonense (PSA) and the Partido Trabalhista Amazonense (PTA) respectively, their performances were extremely important in aggregating the main political forces of that period in Amazonas. Their performances in the elections of 1933, 1934 and 1935 highlighted as political party agents, at first in antagonistic positions, and then, under one party - Partido Popular Amazonense - (PPA) - became allies of the Getulio Vargas' proposals. In this scenario, Tribuna Popular newspaper's foundation, first as the PTA disclosure institution and subsequently linked to the PPA, is revealed as an important information source in that period, and the aforementioned party leaders. Its periodicity between 1933 and 1936, not only allows to build the constitution of the political Amazonas profile, but also alert us to their other function, which was to offer itself as a place for the labor proposals draft their proposals, concerns and discussions about some of the people involved in the workforce and trade union world at that time.