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United Auto Workers Union (UAW) initiate 1939 Tool and die workers strike against General Motors that spreads to other General Motors workers.
Opening Slate reads: "International Union United Auto Workers (UAW) of America " over-layed on medalion reading: "Affiliated with C.I.O."This is followed by the title of the film: "United Action Means Victory, Story of the General Motors Tool and Die Strike 1939." This is followed by numerous credits, and a foreward signed by UAW President, R. J. Thomas and Secretary-Treasurer, George F. Gaddes. Next, Camera shows Walter Reuther, Director of the General Motors Department of the UAW, seated behind Union President R.J. Thomas, as he speaks to members of the union executive board. Camera pans over the board members. Views of a tool and die makers at work, in measuring and in machine shops, using grinders, drilling machines, welding equipment and other machinery. Walter Reuther is seen meeting with Union officials after they decide to strike. Actors supposedly brawling outside an auto plant. (They all pull their punches.) Newspapers announcing peaceful settlement of labor complaints. Walter Reuther insists on waiting for General Motors response to the Union's demands. Strikers marching outside an auto plant. One carries a sign calling for Fisher Pontiac workers to strike. Most of these are women. View of a Chevrolet plant with picketers marching in a courtyard. Slate reads:"Chevrolet Gear and Experimental." More views of picketers. One wears a hat reading: "UAW-CIO Picket Captain." Building with sign reading: "Chevrolet Engineering Laboratory." Engineers from the Lab shake hands with strikers and join them. More views of pickets. Some receiving drinks from folks supporting the strike. Union members seen paying their dues to union cashiers.
Scenes aboard ocean liner SS Manhattan: Ambassador William Dodd interviewed in 1938 and passengers fleeing war in Europe in 1939.
A large number of passengers aboard the ocean liner SS Manhattan (later USS Wakefield) in the United States. Scene from January 10,1938 as the USS Manhattan returns from her Europe trip. A large number of passengers aboard the ship. U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany, William E. Dodd, is interviewed by media persons about his Europe trip. He declares that living in Europe at the time is discouraging and there is crisis in Europe as German Nazism and Fascism are gaining ground everywhere. In next shot, from 1939, the ship is underway and arriving at New York Harbor on September 30, 1939, carrying 1837 persons, its largest passenger count ever. The passengers include many Americans from overseas fleeing war-torn Europe early in World War 2. A sign on the ship: 'Manhattan United States Lines'. The passengers in mass numbers at a harbor. The Statue of Liberty in the background.
Dr. Langmuir's Nobel Prize, industrial factories, 1939 World's Fair, and aerial views of cities.
Graphic: "This film is restricted". Group of industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke and pollution. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. Large power lines coming from Hoover Dam. View of George Washington Bridge in New York City with traffic. Aerial view of early highway interchange. Aerial view of Manhattan, New York City and New York City skyline. Aerial view of smoggy city with railroad switching yard in foreground. Early highway crowded with car traffic. People wading in water at the beach. People looking out from high vantage point. 1939 World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere. Interior view Grand Central Station or early Penn Station railroad train station. Porters and travelers walking in train station. View of Egyptian ruins and pyramids. Ruins from 300 BC. Moving timeline graphic depicts dates of modern advances in geometry, arabic numerals, physics, and industrial revolution with electricity, chemistry, railroads, telegraph, and automobiles. Factory with smoke stacks, pollution, and view of a large grain elevator. Foundry with sparks flying. Line of turbine generators. General Electric company building with GE logo on top. Dr. Irving Langmuir works in a lab at the plant demonstrating creation of thin films of oil in a pan. View of Noble Prize won by him for his research about the basic structure and behavior of molecules. View of non-reflective glass demonstrated on General Electric meter. Scientist with beakers and test tubes. Scientists in laboratory and looking through microscopes.
People watching the production process of the Ford car and various other exhibits during the 1939 New York World's fair.
The New York world's fair of 1939 - 1940. People gather on the fairgrounds. Streamline train on display. People watching the railroad train. AT&T building, United States Steel building, Westinghouse, Goodrich, Chrysler, General Motors and Ford buildings in view. Entrance to Ford building. Statue of Mercury. Interiors of the entrance hall. People watch various displays. A couple looks at Ford, Lincoln, and Lincoln Zephyr cars outside the building. They look at Henry Ford's first gasoline-powered engine on display. Crowd look at a huge mobile mural by Henry Billings. They move through hall as they look at exhibits. They watch the main exhibit-'Ford Cycle of Production'. The steps involved in the production process of Ford being displayed at the fair
Scenes from the Ford Company pavilion in the the 1939 New York World's Fair
Visitors gather at the Ford Motor Company exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. They gather in front of an exhibit contrasting hand manufacture with modern machines used in production and assembly lines. Visitors entering the Ford theater at the Fair. They watch a live stage production entitled: "A Thousand Times Neigh,"starring the American Ballet Caravan and "Dobbin," the dancing horse. View of the stage show in progress. A woman fashionably dressed crosses the stage and is next seen posing beside a stylish prototype Ford automobile. Views of a Ford motion picture entitled: "Symphony in F," that animates elements of auto production in an entertaining way. Visitors climbing stairs from the Industrial Hall, to the Garden Court. Ford cars are seen driving along overhead roadways. The visitors line up to ride those cars in an exhibit called "The Road of Tomorrow." Several people getting into a car at the exhibit. Cars driving around and through the building. In one scene, the symbols of the Fair, the "Trylon and Perisphere" are seen in the background. View of the Landscape Garden Court, where visitors walk among trees and fountains. "The New World Ensemble," conducted by Ferde Grofe, plays music in a small semi-outdoor enclave.
People listening to music played by the New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe at 1939 World's Fair.
The New York world's fair of 1939 to 1940. Views in garden court. The New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe plays in an amphitheater. Amusement section with dancers and ice-skaters. People ski jump and parachute jump. People walk and being pushed in chair cars. The souvenir stand. People eat food. Views of fair at night. Lighting and fireworks at night.