Film 'Homes For Defense' on the construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Houses constructed for soldiers and war production workers through the Federal Defense Housing Program. Houses for the people who construct planes, ships and guns for the protection of America. View of run down tenements and slum housing in a city or town. A car parked outside a house. Children stand near a fence outside the house. A map shows industrial centers. Men move to various industrial centers. Newport News: workers work on machinery for the Battle of Atlantic. Hartford: workers work on machine guns. Detroit: workers in an auto industry. Rock Island: workers in industry make coastal field artillery. Rolla Waynesville: army men at a training center. Corpus Christi: Army men at a new airfield to accommodate the expanding air force. Aircraft in flight. San Diego: workers construct planes in a factory. Signs of the various housing agencies that are doing a special job under the coordinated program.
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. Men construct house trailers for the American defense people. The top of a trailer house is lowered. A woman with a child smiles. A man picks up the child. Trailer houses in the background. A woman walks with a pram. Trailer houses in a row. The side of a house reads 'US TVA'.
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States in World War II. A truck carries a part of a prefabricated portable house. The prefabricated house part is attached to other part stationed on a grassland. Women sit at the entrance of the house. A man uses a dumpy level to observe the contours of the land. Workers work at the community sewage disposal plant. A cemented pipe is lowered. Linemen at a tower erect telephone lines. A truck passes under the tower. Workers mix cement. Workers keep a grilled structure onto the truck. The truck carries the grilled structure. A truck drops lumber on the ground. Workers in a row pick the grilled structure. They erect the walls of the houses. A worker carries a wooden slab. He walks on the roof of the house with the wooden slab. Other workers work on the house roof. Stucco siding applied to homes.
Construction of homes for war workers under the Division of Defense Housing Coordination in the United States during World War 2. Workers work on the roof of a house. They paint the roof. A house under construction. Houses constructed under the coordinated defense housing program. Trucks and road rollers used for construction. People move in front of the completed houses. A woman hangs clothes on a clothes line outside a house and a child sits on stairs. A woman in a kitchen takes out a jar from an early refrigerator or icebox. She pours it in mugs. Two young boy children seated at a dining table drink the milk. Aerial views of the houses. Man with family holding a child waves.
Strike at the Allis Chalmers factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The United Auto Workers (UAW), a labor union-Congress of industrial Organizations(CIO) workers carry flags of America and of CIO as they move in huge crowd. Views of the Allis Chalmers plant and smoke comes out of the smoke stack. The crowd advances and a car being driven amidst the crowd. Horse driven carriage carry people. Governor of Wisconsin Julius Peter Heil walks from the crowd. He calls for help and closes the plant. Rear of a car having a spoiled glass from paint being thrown on it. Police force controls the crowd. Police sprays water on the protesting workers from fire hoses . Crowd runs all around the area. Tear gas is used to break up the crowd. A damaged police vehicle. Worker throw stones at the vehicles. (World War II period).
U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt in South Carolina, United States. U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt with other officers in a car as he inspects the troops and installations at a huge encampment, Camp Jackson. Troops give guard of honor to the President.
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