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The Oscars were founded in 1929, but did you know that the awards ceremony was originally intended to break Hollywood unions? This article tells the story of how Louis B. Mayer, the West Coast chief at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, conceived the Oscars as a way to hire cheap labor for his own projects and diminish union power.

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