Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists visit tire manufacturing plant in Akron Ohio. In Brazil a man collects rubber from trees. A man tends the liquid rubber into rubber balls over fire,large balls laid on the ground and men loading rubber balls on horsebacks. Map showing route from Brazil to Akron,Ohio. Women workers prepare sheets of rubber while men pull out rubber tiers from spinning wheels and place the tires in assembly line.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit iron mining sites in Minnesota. Cranes digging mines and iron ore is loaded on the trains. Train passes through mountains. At the harbor a ship named GENERAL ORLANDO is being loaded with iron ore via elevated chutes. The delegates observe operations at steel industries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pan American Congress of Journalists visit automobile foundries in Detroit United States. Cab passes through lake side. Exterior view of foundry. Transportation of raw material from other steel industries provided to manufacturers of motor vehicles done by trains. Man in huge crane is seen.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit Detroit United States. Civic industrials and officers welcome them. The group along with the civic industrials proceed to automobile companies for inspection. Henry Ford founder of Ford Company greets them all. Workers in manufacturing motor vehicles. Views of several factories where cars are produced.
Industrial jobs coming available in various parts of the United States during the Great Depression. Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania: Workers at the Sun Oil Company. Long line of men showing up for work. Men hand-digging trenches for oil and gas pipelines, giving work to hundreds of men, instead of to twelve men with machines. Detroit, Michigan: Workers called back to work at the United States Rubber Company (later Uniroyal). Cue of workers passing through the entrance door with sign overhead "Let's Get it done! It can be done!" and then punching time cards as hey head back to work. Scenes of manufacturing and assembly work by women workers and male workers inside the rubber company, and a rubber tire being made in the factory. Joliet, Illinois: Lines of workers entering the Mayflower Wallpaper Mill. Men rolling large rolls of the paper through the mill. Views of wallpaper manufacturing. Dayton, Ohio: Views of workers entering the National Cash Register Company factory. Workers assembling and testing cash registers before they are placed on conveyor belts.
Business developments in various parts of United States. The rate of employment increases as developments occur. Increasing number of workers with jobs shown working during the Great Depression. Connersville, Indiana: Men working in an automobile industry. Workers with heavy machines work on various parts of automobile. Men loading lumber planks onto belts for processing through saws that cut wooden parts for use in automobiles. Cincinnati, Ohio: Men and women working in an Ivory Soap manufacturing company. Workers pack Ivor Soap bars in boxes. Worcester, Massachusetts: Women workers busy stitching corsets in a leading corset manufacturing company. Detroit, Michigan: Men work in Burroughs typewriter manufacturing company. Men check typewriters.
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