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Sea plane loaded with mails takes off after the government removes the transportation of postal matter from private companies.
Sea plane loaded with mails in the United States. The government removes the transportation of postal matter from the hands of private companies. Men load mails in the plane. Pilot in the cockpit. Sea plane takes off.
Damage and destruction due to drought "Dust bowl" in the mid-western states of the United States.
Drought hits the mid-western United States. Barren and damaged fields due to drought. Cattle in a farm. Dead bodies of cattle, who died due to starvation lying on a field during the dust bowl.
Anglo-American investor Samuel Insull face charges resulting from his utility firms' collapse in the United States.
Anglo-American investor Samuel Insull in the United States. He with his family in his house. He flees from the country but is brought back to face charges resulting from his firm's collapse.
Workers protest and strikes breakout in U.S. cities; police and state guardsmen clash with strikers
Unrest and violence in the United States by strikers in various cities. Aerial view of San Francisco. General strike in San Francisco. People gather on the streets to protest. A board reads: 'Out of Gasoline Due to Strike conditions' at a Shell gas station. Injured people lying on the street during Truck Drivers strike in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as Police battle strikers and use clubs to control them. Strike in Toledo by Auto Accessory Workers shows State guardsmen throwing rocks back at strikers and using tear gas and knockout gas to control the situation. Strikers are grabbed by State Guards forcefully and hauled away. The strikes arise as a result of disputes over the meaning of new labor rules.
Labor unrest involving coal miners, auto workers, and farmers, in the 1930s in the United States
Labor riots and strikes during the Great Depression. Opening scenes show coal being moved out of a mine in Harlan County, Kentucky. Armed Kentucky National Guard soldiers climb aboard and ride on each open car of coal. Miners who cross the picket lines to work (aka strike-breakers, or SCABS) enter the mine under National Guard protection. One miner carries a pistol, along with his lunch box. Change of scene to a street, probably in Detroit, Michigan, where several women carry signs denigrating the "Big Three" (automobile manufacturers). One sign reads: "The Big 3 call us RED Because we fight for Bread." The final sequence shows a group of men attacking a farmer's truck carrying milk cans. The attackers force the truck to the side of a country road and empty all the milk cans. A plank, filled with upwards pointing spikes, has been placed on the road to stop trucks. In a town street, A vigilante knocks a man from a vegetable truck, as it passes him. A gang of men attacking the vegetable truck are resisted by club wielding vigilantes.
The Secretary of War George H. Dern addresses the nation about the working of a recovery program in the United States.
U.S. Secretary of War George H. Dern address the nation in the United States. The Secretary of War seated at his desk addresses the nation. He speaks about the working of a recovery program of the government. He states that many civilians have gone back to work as a result of the recovery program. He says that many million dollars have been added to the monthly payroll for the workers. He stresses on the need for an increase in prices for the prosperity of the country.