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America mobilizes for World War I and confronts demobilization afterwards
Opening scene shows Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. Newspaper swirls into the image, with headline announcing their assassinations. Glimpse of railways guns firing. View of a ship's bow as it sinks beneath the ocean, is covered by newspaper headline announcing the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, by a German submarine. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at his desk. Newspaper headline reads: "U.S. Declares War !!" U.S. soldiers marching in Washington, DC, with U.S. Capitol building in background. Newspaper announces: "Yanks are Coming!" American General John Pershing on horseback leading a contingent of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF). American troops going "over the top" (charging out of their trenches) in France during World War 1. Troops firing French 75 artillery pieces at point blank range. A formation of Allied Airco (de Havilland) DH9 aircraft in flight. Bombs bursting near trenches on the front lines. Renault FT-17 tanks accompanying American infantry on the Western Front. Persons playing roles as employees in the Department of Labor when they served as the War Labor Administration in World War 1. Women in the War Labor Administration working with long paper rolls of personnel records. Women in various war effort endeavors including airplane and arms manufacturing. Men working in a wartime steel plant. Marchers and a band demonstrating for the rights of workers to organize. People celebrating the at the end of World War 1, by gathering in the streets, throwing tickertape, dancing in the streets and waving effigies of the Kaiser. Stern view of the U.S. Army Transport Ship, President Grant filled with American soldiers returning from France at the end of the war. Lettering on stern reads, "U.S.A.T. President Grant" (The ship, AP-29, was originally the German ocean liner Konig Wilhelm II, and seized from Germany on 6 April 1917.) Views of United States soldiers returning home, disembarking, and assembling on a wharf home on American soil. Department of Labor persons assisting returning soldiers and prospective employers. Views of workers on farms, and in factories.
Enactment and effects of Social Security and Labor legislation during the Great Depression in the U.S.
Part of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States. Opening scene shows numerous children gathered around a large wooden picnic table outdoors, as a woman and two men serve them lunch, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the United States. The setting is a barnyard, with chickens walking about in the background. Scene shifts to many women working in an Emergency Employment Office of the U.S. Department of Labor. They are all engaged in various kinds of clerical activities. Next, men are seen receiving hot food at an outdoor "Soup Kitchen." People on a "bread line." A woman getting the last bit of food from an empty food kitchen pail. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seated at his desk, surrounded by interested persons, as he signs the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, and appoints the Secretary of Labor as head of a committee to develop a Social Security Program which shall embrace and cover the hazards of old age, unemployment, the handicapped, and children. A rural family seen on their porch. Many unemployed men gathered on a building porch in a rural setting. Railroad cars and an industrial site can be seen in the background. Children gathered on an open porch. The U.S. Capitol building. Coal miners headed into a mine shaft, wearing helmets with lights and carrying their lunch pails. Workers on an automobile assembly line. Rural poor families near their makeshift houses. A woman airing out bedding outdoors. Men stoking a furnace. A large group of child laborers. A factory with multiple smoke stacks. Striking union members carrying signs on a picket line. Others carry signs identifying them as members of the International Seamen's Union. One of them carries a sign reading: "Radio is the only Hope. Insist on reliable radio protection." Other union members in an outdoor protest. A group of businessmen, ostensibly in peaceful negotiations, facilitated by the Department of Labor.
Inflation, labor unrest, and rising unemployment afflict America in decade following World War II.
Part of documentary by the U.S. Labor Department. Opening scene shows tractors pulling disc harrows to condition land at a construction site. The steel framework of a large sports complex under construction. Brick masons working on exterior of a large building. Two prize fighters in a ring being separated by referee as one is knocked to the canvas. Scenes of post-World War II labor strife in America. Police escorting persons to the safety of building entrance. Union protesters holding signs reading "Local 1173," (Machinists Union in California). Cars drive into a factory yard where workers are standing about. Narrator refers to busy schedule in history for the Labor Department Mediation Service. Workers crating completed washing machines for shipment. A parade in which a man on stilts represents high prices and another marching beside him representing low wages. A deserted commercial district in a small rural town, reflecting 1949 resurgence of unemployment problems. A mother and father with two small children, looking at baby carriages in a shop window. Men walking away from a factory office past a sign reading: "No Help Wanted." American soldiers engaged in combat during the Korean War. Narrator alludes to this bringing some relief to unemployment.
American labor challenged in the age of space exploration and advanced technology
Portion of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States.Opening scene shows first successful launch of an American Atlas ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on December 17, 1957. U.S. Astronaut, Alan B. Shepard emerging from the NASA Mercury Freedom 7 capsule on the deck of the USS Lake Champlain, after it was recovered from space flight in orbit and placed aboard the ship. Tape decks operating as part of an IBM early computer room. Machine controlled multiple drills in operation. Earth moving equipment at work on a construction site. Automatic equipment employed remotely in a hazardous environment. Robotic machine elements at work. Chemists in a laboratory. Remotely controlled devices handling radioactive materials in a radiation shielded space. A nuclear test explosion. Coal miners heading to work as they always have, with helmets including lights and their lunch pails. Children of the rural poor in a school yard with dirt paths in a rural area, possibly Appalachian. Automatic equipment speeding industrial production, but displacing unskilled workers. Highly trained technical workers in a company computer room. An older factory becoming obsolete. Large scale coal boring machinery seen boring in a mine, replacing the pick and shovel coal miner of the past. Automated farm machinery replacing the old-time farm hand.
Problem of unemployment due to the introduction of advanced technology and equipment in the United States.
A segment of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States. Film begins with actor portraying a man who ostensibly invents a sewing machine but destroys it after considering its impact on the employment of hand seamstresses. Cartoon illustrations show early 19th Century textile worker followers of "King Ludd" (Luddites) in England who destroyed weaving machinery for fear it would replace them in the industry. Current views of Men at work with technical apparatus. Modest homes in a semi-rural setting in America, where people ostensibly replaced by machines or who for lack of training and education are shown as unemployed, and idle. .
Department of Labor role in Manpower Development and Training in the United States
Final segment of a documentary on the history of the Labor Department in the United States. A group of Labor Department employees are seen in a meeting, where one discusses variations in unemployment while referring to a chart entitled: "Employees in Nonagricultural Establishments, by Industry Division." Closeup of a Secretary of Labor report on Research and Training Activities under the Manpower Development and Training Act, transmitted to the Congress, February, 1963. A woman explains wiring diagrams on a blackboard in chalk, and then turns to young people being trained to solder such connections on electronic parts, in a worker training class. Finished electrical products being readied for shipment. Closeup of a "Manpower Report of the President," by the Department of Labor. President Lyndon Baines Johnson, reporting to the Congress. Behind him are Speaker of the House, John William McCormack, and Senate President pro tempore Carl Hayden. Wider view of the joint session of congress. Men gathered at a table simulating Labor-management bargaining in action. A U.S. Labor Department representative offers assistance to the bargaining parties. Closeup of men shaking hands. George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO labor organization is seen conducting a meeting. A man circles labor markets, on a U.S. map, that are eligible for Federal assistance under the Area Redevelopment Act. An aircraft and a ship are seen being loaded with goods for transport to foreign destinations. People voting in a large gathering, by show of hands. Closeup of a metal tool bit cutting a strip while turning a piece of metal in a lathe. Several young people ostensibly seeking jobs. More views of products being loaded and transported by ship, airplane, and railroad. People entering the Department of Labor building in Washington, DC. People waiting in line for assistance in finding jobs. Final scenes are a montage of brief images covering the history of the Department of Labor, shown inside a round Department of Labor symbol.
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