Detroit,Toledo and Ironton (DT&I) Railroad operating between cities of Michigan and Ohio in United States. Views of African American men working to clean and polish the railroad locomotive. A steam engine attached to the railroad train moving on railroad tracks. Views of railroad station,rail tracks and a steam engine moving on a turntable at the railway yard. Slates describe Ford policy for lower freight rates, higher wages, unusual service, courteous treatment working in three years' time to transform the D.T.&I.R.R. into a proitable unit.
From a Civics and Citizenship series by Ford. Focuses on Industrial Working Conditions. Several men work in Ford factory yard pull goods using hand carts. Workers in a hotel kitchen put dirty dishes in an automatic dish washer from one side while another man collects cleaned dishes from the other side. An old man and few other men wipe clean dishes and stack them. A man pouring creamed milk in an ice-cream making machine and eating ice-cream. A garment factory where workers are using a circular knife to cut fabric to desired shapes.
Automatic machinery and conveyers that assist in industry. View of a hopper unloading coal on a covered conveyor belt while a man stands near the conveyor belt. Workers at heavy machinery in a plant while several men push a coal loaded car on elevator. Views of coal load dumped in hoppers, a railroad car fills with coal from hopper and loaded railroad car moves on rail road tracks. Wooden rails moving on the conveyor in a sawmill while several workers separate the wooden lumber from conveyor. Men work on automobile parts at assembly line in an automobile factory. Men access various automobile parts from the conveyor belts.
Several men in white uniforms prepare candy in a candy manufacturing plant while others work on heavy machinery wearing apron and gloves. Also shown are men making chewing gum in the candy factory. Men work in a kitchen wearing aprons and others wipe utensils used for cooking in a hotel kitchen. Workers wear masks and protective shields during work in a glass factory. Two men lift huge container and empty the material in a clay oven built on ground. Several men work in coal mines, men wear mine helmets,gas masks and gloves. One of the workers smokes a cigarette while others look at him. The coal miner lights his cigarette using his torch head lamp. The flame on another miner's head lamp is seen.
Describes investment of companies in worker training and care. Several men sit in a projection room and watch a film on a screen as part of employee training. A man pounds hot iron rod with heavy machine and hammer in the forge shop of an automobile factory. Views of men working at drafting desks and at wood lathes. Young men on a wheel assembly line start nuts onto bolts on each wheel as the wheels move by on the line. Men in a curtain factory observe a giant loom weaving lace curtains.
Workers affix wheels to the car chassis on assembly line in the Ford Motor Company plant at Highland Park. Various workers adding their efforts on the assembly line. A better dressed foreman watches the workers and their progress. Rows of tires mounted on the wall in the background
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