A French woman mops stairs. A group of French women including Marie Dupont, works in a protective goggle manufacturing factory in Paris. A horse carriage on a Paris street near busy city markets. A blind accordion player plays music in street. Men and women shop at open market. Woman buys vegetables and produce and looks inside a butcher's meat shop. A horse bust sign above a horse meat shop. Shoes, sweaters, and other items on display in stores. Marie looks at a skirt in an open shop. Excerpt is from an anti-communist propaganda piece in the mid 1950s.
French Anti-communist propaganda piece of the 1950s: Exterior of a chateau which serves as a school for trade unionists of the Free Trade Unions in Paris, France. A class for railroad men on the settling of dispute, commences inside the chateau. French worker Jacques Dupont looks at a Free Trade Union poster. A Force Ouvrière (Worker’s Force) meeting. Jacques accompanies a new member to the meeting hall. Scenes of a discussion going inside the trade union meeting. Workers demonstrate against the working of the Communist unions. A vote is taken on the outcome of the meeting. The majority vote against cooperation with the Communists (Reds).
A part from the dramatized French documentary titled 'Jour De Piene' (A Tough Day). A train whistles past a railway crossing. The crossing gates open . Factory workers of the town of Isbergues in France leave for work at dawn on their bicycles. A magnetic crane near two tall factory chimney.s Shows industrial plants and workers working inside a metal factory. Hot metal ingots being poured and metal slabs produced. Scenes of several industrial machines. Factory workers gather and converse. Factory owner sees through window. A meeting between factory owners and the worker's union leaders.
Heavy machines inside a metal factory in the town of Isbergues,France. Ingots being poured. Workers working inside the factory converse. An alarm raises and factory workers exit with their bicycles from the factory gates. Heavily crowded town center. Children enjoy merry-go ride. Robert, a young factory worker, makes his way to home accompanied by a fellow worker.
French factory worker Robert and his father arrive to their home in Isbergues, France. Robert washes his face. Robert's father shows him a photo-album. They both argue with each other. Flower vases and several picture frames on a table. A certificate on the wall with a picture of Robert' s parents above it. Robert's mother with a cat. Robert packs his suitcase and leaves.
French factory worker named Robert at a railway station in Isbergues, France. Train arrives at the station. Robert shakes hands with fellow worker and leaves for Paris. Man says “Au revior, Léon” from train window. Man enters the Paris Metro outside Paris Gare du Nord train station. Street of Paris with tall buildings, vehicular traffic, and pedestrians. Robert attends special classes in trade unionism. A professor points to the blackboard. Professor talks to a student. Hand of a student holding a cigarette over a notebook. A night meeting of the trade union workers. Robert is notified of breakdown in negotiations between the union leaders and factory owners in his town of Isbergues.
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