Camera on a slowly moving overhead conveyor shows numerous stacks of sheet metal next to machines in the stamping section of the Studebaker automobile plant in South Bend, Indiana. Next, as a stamping machine slowly rises open, men remove automobile frame parts from it. Closeup of the stamping machine slowly stamping the frame parts which men then remove from the press. The name Studebaker appears on the machine. At another location men are seen removing stamped auto fenders from a similar press. Closeup of a machine slowly pressing sheet metal between a pair of mating presses to form a fender. Worker holds finished fender up for the camera. In the auto body section of the factory, men place an auto body frame on a wheeled dolly. Next workers are seen placing a lower rear body section on a car being assembled. Other workers are seen hand grinding and otherwise smoothing surfaces of assembled auto bodies. In final scenes, workers sit inside the assembled bodies and apply trim to the interior using tack hammers and other tools.
Film begins showing a worker moving a collection of final assemble parts for a new automobile in the Studebaker automobile factory in South Bend, Indiana. As he rotates the "package" of parts to move it by overhead hoist, some of the contents can be seen, including: tires, a radiator, mud guards, and other finishing items. An engine is lowered into an auto chassis. Then an auto body is lowered into it from an overhead hoist. New automobiles (without engine covers) are driven from stalls into another section of the auto plant. A line of the Studebaker cars is seen parked with rear wheels rotating on dynamometers built into the floors, as inspectors check their uncovered engines. Closeup of a cars rear wheels spinning over the dynamometer. Closeup of inspector using screw driver to adjust something on the running engine. An inspector looks at a completely finished car and gives it an "OK" tag. Studebaker wings hood ornament seen on car.
Film opens showing the U.S. Congress filling the U.S. Capitol chamber on April 2, 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany. Four days later, on April 6th, President Wilson is seen in black topcoat and top hat delivering an address from a building in Washington, DC announcing that Congress approved his request for a declaration of War. Former President Wiliam Howard Taft sits nearby. View of President Wilson dressed in summer white, relaxed and very casual, speaking impromptu to a group of persons in front of a brick building. Patriotic bunting is seen nearby. Change of scene shows Woodrow Wilson's youngest daughter, Mrs. W.G. McAdoo,Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo. An unidentified old woman is nearby.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson attend American Federation Labor conference in Buffalo, New York. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall attend an American Federation of Labor conference in Buffalo, N.Y. (1917). President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor meet. The Labor Day parade in Buffalo. Troops and motorcars participate in the parade. Views of President Samuel Gompers and Secretary Frank Morrison. Hugh Frayne, General organizer of the American Federation of Labor, joins the group. They all take out their hats.
The Labor Day Parade in Buffalo, New York. A band plays musical instruments and a bandmaster instructs the band in the parade. The president of American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers sitting in car. The car passes along the streets of the city during the parade. Railroad tracks on a road. Delegates participate in the parade with miniature flags of the U.S.
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson arrives and departs from the Convention Hall during the Labor Day Parade in Buffalo, New York. President Wilson and his wife Ellen Axson Wilson arrive at the Convention Hall. Troops enter the hall (during World War I). The President and his wife leave the hall. They get into a car. The Labor Day Parade moves through the streets of the city. Railroad tracks on a road. The troops march.
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