Opening Slate reads,"Fisher"( overlaid on "Pontiac") The United Auto Workers (UAW) Pontiac strike committee is seen in discussions. Several wear hats reading,"Local 594." They discuss their strike at the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and General Motors (GM) Company's intent to bring in Strike Breakers. View of union members on a picket line outside the factory. They swarm over a car carrying Strike Breakers, determined not to allow them through, even pushing it backwards. Uniformed policemen forcibly enter the fray and try to prevent the strikers from denying access to the plant. Men and women strike supporters looking on. Strikers begin to rock a Strike Breaker car. Policeman wielding a billy club walks toward union supporters. Closeups of men on the picket line. Some drinking water from a supporter. View of the factory building with sign reading: "Fisher Body, Pontiac Division, General Motors Corporation." Newspaper headline reads," Dickinson Sends State Police to Pontiac Strike." (Luren Dudley Dickinson was Governor of Michigan in 1939. Glimpse of car with painted sign reading: "Michigan 157 State Police." A phalanx of armed State troopers, carrying billy clubs, moving toward the strikers. They deploy across the street from the picket line, with the intent of protecting GM property. Strikers leave and State policemen are seen on empty road and sidewalk. Strike Breakers do not appear. But members of other unions, supported by hundreds of citizens of Pontiac soon fill the area in a massive display of solidarity with the UAW cause. Closeup of a little girl in the gathering. Closeup of a man holding a little girl, next to a woman. Headline in Detroit News reads: GM and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Executives to Confer on Strike." Camera pans down rapidly from top of a General Motors office building. Eight CIO officials stand at the entrance of the building. Closeup of Philip Murray, President of the CIO. Camera pans across the officials, showing Walter Reuther, of the UAW, standing next to Philip Murray and UAW President, R.J. Thomas next to Reuther. A group of UAW union members and supporters marches around the GM office building. View from a high building, downward shows union members and supporters parading in formation on the sidewalk in front of the GM headquarters. View at street level of reenactors parading in much less disciplined manner. Some playing musical instruments. Families in the group. A man walks behind a moving 1928 Chevrolet automobile and then climbs upon its roof. Another glimpse of the highly disciplined paraders seen earlier. Men clowning around in the street. Another view of sidewalk filled with union members and supporters. UAW newspaper reads: GM Strikers Win, announcing 1st National Wage Pact, ratified by membership. UAW-CIO negotiators looking over the new contract.
Workers crate finished gun mounts for 20mm Oerlikon guns at General Motors plant in Pontiac, Michigan. Naval officer and shipping foreman inspect mounts to be crated. Workers board up crates of mounts. Workers on gun barrel production line, rough turning barrels before bore is drilled. Rough-turned barrels on conveyor, barrels put on lathe for turning. Workers at machine drill bores. Drilling machines with truck of barrels in the background. Worker at drilling machine. Views of workers at chambering machines. View of Gun testing range, naval officer and plant superintendent examine gun mechanism during test firing. (World War II period).
Workers enter General Motors Plant, Pontiac in Michigan. Overhead World War II United States propaganda sign reads 'This is Our Busy Day War's Working for Uncle Sam'. Exterior of the Plant shows flag pole with 'E' pennant and Ordnance flag. Automobiles parked in the compound.
Government inspector makes final check of gun at General Motors Plant in Pontiac, Michigan. Navy anchor stamped. Rout tag. Officer and inspector stand near completely assembled gun and mount. They examine blueprint and point to gun parts.
Steps of truck manufacturing, at a General Motors factory in Pontiac, Michigan, USA. Workers at a factory work for casting engine block of a truck. Mould of engine poured with molten metal. When casting has set, the chain pulley crane lifts the engine so formed. Smoothening and reaming for cylinders of engine with various machines. Cylinder walls cast, then machined for uniform thickness on lathe machine. Worker fixes cylinder walls with engine housing.
Various steps of truck assembly operations, at a General Motors factory in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Chassis and shaft of a truck. Universal joint and the combination gauge of truck. Workers work with machines to check perfection of these. Universal joint compared with that of a car. Rear axle checked for sturdiness by a worker. A worker then compares it with that of a car.
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