Players of baseball's New York Giants pose for team photo at their home stadium, the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, New York City. The Giants defeated the New York Yankees to win the 1921 World Series. Close-up view of the Giants' manager and Hall of Famer John McGraw.
Post-World War 1 United States marked by labor-management strife and strikes, especially in the garment industry. Clothing workers are seen busy at their jobs in a factory in New York City. A man is seen symbolically closing and locking a steel door (narrative refers to a company "lockout.") Footage of police officers and crowd of laborers on New York City street. Police try to maintain order as crowds fill garment district streets in protest. Montage of persons awaiting a June 1921 decision by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County. Narrator announces that Justice James C. Van Siclen, has granted an injunction (against all picketing by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America). Narrator quotes Van Siclen's opening statement in the decision: "The court must stand at all times as the representative of capital, of the captains of industry..." View of Sidney Hillman, leader of the Amalgamated union (ACWA) sitting with other union members. View of a bustling New York City street lined with tenements and pushcarts in the lower east side of Manhattan. A man washing his face at a sink. A woman preparing a meal over a stove. Four children sharing a large bed. A gathering of idled clothing workers in a school room setting. Some in art classes. Dancers entertaining locked out workers. Young people presenting a puppet show. Narrator states that the lockout lasted 6 months, but the union prevailed. View of pleased union members.
Protest in defense of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Wall Street, New York City. Laborers demonstrate at Wall Street. Crowd gathers at the street. Policemen on horses stand behind the crowd. Men and women speak from dice. Banners and placards read: Governor Fuller, Sacco and Vanzetti, Emergency, Strike, Labor, Defense. Crowd raises hand.
Geography and buildings of New York City. Riverside Drive along the Hudson River. Cars and automobile traffic on the streets and roads. Buildings and pedestrians along the road. The Tomb of General Grant, on Riverside Drive. Visitors moving in and coming out of the tomb. A statue on top of the entrance written with words, 'Let us have peace'.
Documentary about geography, markets and culture of New York Americans of future in the congested lower East Side. A crowded tenement district with shops on both sides of street. Road busy with merchandise and sidewalks of these roads, completely packed with pedestrians. A busy market in crowded ghetto. Fruit and vegetable merchants in the market. Sign in background on storefront reads, "Bokschizky & Rotkowitz 252 Pharmacists and Chemists Women buying and bargaining for the merchandise. Children in the market. A public procession passing by on the streets. A large group of marchers carrying a giant American flag together, leads the parade.
Mayor John F Hylan arrives and unveils a bust of Columbus veiled with the U.S. flag, New York City. Crowd cheers. Officers salute.