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Labor Union movement grows significantly, but labor strife also continues during 1930s in the U.S.A.

Men work assembling transmissions on an automobile production line. John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers Union, giving a speech supporting formation of the Congress of Industrial organizations (CIO). Group of workers gather to listen to a union speaker. Many wear miners hats. Cheering Union workers march in street carrying posters reading: "Long-Live the C.I.O." and "Forward with C.I.O." Leaders of the early C.I.O., Sidney Hillman, President of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA); Philip Murray, Vice President of the C.I.O.; and John L. Lewis, C.I.O. President, circa 1938. David Dubinsky, President of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU); along with Sidney Hillman, and John L. Lewis, are seen mingling with clothing workers. View of a steel mill from workers' residential street on a snowy day. Steel worker in a mill. Deckhand and an engine man aboard a merchant ship. Roustabouts and riggers at an oil well. Nonferris metal miner in rail car. Worker in tire factory. Electrical worker. Union leader speaking to group of workers carrying banner reading: "Shirt workers, Local 128 Allentown, Pennsylvania Joint Board." Labor organizers passing out leaflets to workers leaving a factory. Labor discussions with workers at lunch tables. Draftsman preparing labor organization protest signs calling for "Sanitary Conditions" and "Fair Play." Working women singing a union song. Union workers marching and carrying signs for various causes. Man riding a bicycle displaying sign:"Don't Scab." Car overloaded with people with sign: "Come To Lafollette Labor Rally Monday, July 5, 1937." ACWA workers of Local 95, Atlas Plant. UMWA members of Lafollette, Tennessee. Miners playing cards and playing musical instruments. Miners on strike below in mine for 5 days, cheer leader. Poster encouraging Americans to travel and visit in the USA. Police and military units repel, combat, and arrest striking and protesting workers. Scenes of military uniformed men throwing tear gas grenades into crowds of workers as workers disperse. People assisting injured protesters. Police firing various weapons at protesting workers during labor protests and strikes in San Francisco. U.S. Army soldiers arresting a civilian and throwing tear gas grenades.

Date: 1938
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036813
The construction of Norris dam, Wheeler dam, houses for farmers and production of electricity in Tennessee, United States

The rehabilitation of the Tennessee valley in Tennessee, United States during the Great Depression. A crane picks the rubbles. A man operating a machine. Workers work during the construction of the Norris dam. A bucket filled with cement carried by crane. The water gushes through the gates of the dam. A worker operates a blasting machine. Explosions on mountains during the construction of the Wheeler dam. Activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) . The forest service people plant trees on hill side and on fields to restore the Tennessee valley. Animals graze on the land. Farm Security Administration (FSA) works at the construction of houses. Mules being used to plow fields. View of a dam. A man works on the power production machinery. He reads from the gauge. Gates of the dam opened and water starts flowing. An electrical tower and lines.

Date: 1937
Duration: 4 min 20 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032227
Animation shows the various tributaries of Mississippi river and the Tennessee Valley Authority projects in the United States

The effects of flood in the Mississippi river in the United States. Animation shows the various tributaries of the Mississippi river. The reduced fertile soil and plantation over the years due to the flood. The role Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) a federally owned corporation created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation ,flood control,electricity and economic development in the Tennessee valley.

Date: 1937
Duration: 1 min 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032226
Mules plow a field, cotton picking and shipping activities in the Mississippi river of the United States

The activities around the Mississippi River in the United States. Mules with slip shovels used to construct the levee embankment. Mules plow a field. Men work on the farm field. View of the plow. Men picking cotton from field. Smoke comes out of the smoke stack of a steamboat. A steamboat named "Assiniboine" in the river. Men load the steamboat with sacks. View of a bell. Men roll the sacks of cotton into the steamboat. View of Steamboat "Tennessee Belle" being loaded also. Steamboats in the Mississippi river. People aboard the steamboats, including the Chris Greene, the Tennessee Belle, and the Ouachita, which later became the Greene Lines's barge Stogie White.

Date: 1937
Duration: 3 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032219
Involvement of the Tennessee Valley Authority during the Great Depression in the United States.

Recovery efforts from the Great Depression in the United States. (Footage largely from mid 1930's, produced in 1967). A farmer plows his field using oxen. Men and women work in fields. Price tags on food products. Officials of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration in an office discuss reforms to solve farming over production and low demand. Statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. The White House building. Scenes of dilapidated farms and fields overcome by drought and dust bowl conditions. Farmers sit outside their houses fatigued and exhausted. Faces of tired, fatigued farmers. A town meeting of farmers in a small town. Franklin Roosevelt with cabinet and other officals in early days of his administration. Floods in Tennessee Valley washing away farmland. Farmland scarred by erosion lines and trenches. The Tennessee Valley Authority builds dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley and helps farmers reclaim and improve land. Farmers in a rural town listen to a Tennessee Valley Authority official present plans of development. Establishment of Rural Electrification Administration. Electric power lines set up in the rural areas of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt addressing the U.S. Congress in the Capitol. Scenes from voting centers and of a voting booth in an American town. Wendell Willkie addressing a crowd. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt converses with an African American official (possibly in connection with signing of Executive Order 8802, the Fair Employment Act). Eleanor Roosevelt behind him, and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. to her left. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking to group of African American children.

Date: 1933
Duration: 6 min 24 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675044177
Tennessee Valley Authority develops the Tennessee River system in United States.

Harnessing rivers in United States. Tennessee River flows with full force. Floods cause damages in farms and towns. The flow of water causes soil erosion. Tennessee Valley Authority develops the Tennessee River system for flood control and to generate surplus electricity to avert waste of water power. Congress passes Tennessee Valley Authority legislation. Construction crew works on the construction of dam. Workers balancing on steel beams, high in the air. Riverters throwing and catching hot rivets. Steam shovels and pneumatic hammers in operation. Concrete being poured and a welder with helmet and torch,at work. Animated map shows the river and tributaries. Several other dams in view. The dams help in electricity power generation and irrigation.

Date: 1943
Duration: 4 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054482
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