Aerial views of the sprawling Ford Motor Company plant at River Rouge in Dearborn,Michigan. Views of smoke rising from tall chimneys. Ships at the harbor.
First Pursuit Group tests winter equipment during maneuvers in Oscoda, Michigan. A modified United States Army Air Corps fighter aircraft Curtiss P-1 Hawk stationary on snow. Skis on the aircraft. The aircraft being warmed up prior to a take off. Crew turns the propeller of the aircraft. The propeller turns. A pilot in a cockpit. A row of stationary P-1 Hawks equipped with skis on a flight line. A tower building in the background. Ground personnel turn the aircraft around. Snow blown due to the propeller blast. A P-1 Hawk taxis on the snow field and takes off.
A barber accepts vegetables for a haircut in Sparta, Michigan, during the Great Depression. Men lined up outside the barber's shop holding sacks and baskets of vegetables, wheat and other produce as barter for haircuts. The barber accepts the produce to aid farm relief. A man getting a haircut by the barber.
Aircraft parked in a row on the airfield during the 1930 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour at Ford Airport. Woman pilot, Nancy Hopkins,poses for the camera, wearing a leather jacket and a beret. Men in view behind her on the airfield. William Stout, an executive at the Ford Motor Company, converses with three men. Next, they are seen in front of a Ford Trimotor airplane. A squadron of U.S. Army Air Corps Curtiss P-1 Hawk pursuit planes is seen parked in a line on the grass. The Clock Tower at Greenfield Village appears in the background behind them. From a height above, the camera pans over spectators lined up on the ramp at edge of the flying field.
A girl performs various acrobatic maneuvers at May Day Festival in Ford Motor Company's Greenfield village, Dearborn, Michigan. Group of people dance on field wearing traditional costumes. Spectators watch from the edge of the field. Festival queen watches the show with two young boys from her court standing beside. Child performs tap dance on a wooden platform.
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.
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