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Garment workers demonstrating, for improved working conditions, encounter resistance in Eastern U.S. cities
Clothing workers in a factory in the United States. Street scene in garment district of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, in 1912. Garment workers, and supporters of their labor rights quest for better pay and shorter hours, pose for a photograph. Workers display many signs expressing their needs, in English, Italian, Russian, Hebrew and other languages. Garment workers, of various specialties, gather in demonstration for better treatment. Employees of the Alfred Benjamins Company refute management's claim that they are satisfied with working conditions. They display a large sign on the sidewalk. Four-sided box signs are also seen (written in Italian and Hebrew). Mounted police move along a street as a foot patrolman arrests a protester. Photograph of lawyer, Fiorello LaGuardia. Garment workers at work in a sweat shop. A large group of young women garment workers marching in a labor rally or demonstration during a strike. Two signs are seen, one reading: "Why are we prohibited from picketing?" and the other, partly hidden, explains why they are striking. A contingent of uniformed policemen with night sticks, stand in front of a building in Baltimore. Smiling women stand carrying signs. One reads: "Our employers are powerful (because) they are organized.We shall be more powerful." Another reads,"We shall fight until we win." Many other signs express similar sentiments. Portrait photograph of 17 year old Ida Brayman, with caption reading: "Who was shot & killed by an Employer Feb. 5th 1913 during the great struggle of the Garment Workers of Rochester (New York)."
President William H Taft and President-elect Woodrow Wilson leave White House by carriage for inauguration ceremony
U.S. President William H Taft and President-elect, Woodrow Wilson, outside White House, on Inauguration Day, 1913. They get into a carriage to proceed to the ceremony. Taft enters the carriage first, followed by Wilson. An attendant places a carriage robe over their legs.
America enters the 20th Century
Opening scene shows early morning mist and transitions to 20th Century industrial sites with many smoke stacks and steam rising. Next a textile machine rotates as it weaves a product. Men sing around a piano as a woman plays it in an early 20th Century parlor. A person is seen filling out a paper ballot and dropping it into a ballot box at a voting station. A woman doing needle work and a man winding a clock above a mantel. A girl paging through a coloring book. Children in a school room. Many people attending a political convention. Outdoor view of hills and sea. Exterior and interior of a town church. A court being called to order. The inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, as America's 28th President on March 4, 1913. View of the crowd attending the event. Closeup of President Wilson delivering his inaugural address. Bronze bust of Woodrow Wilson.
Wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia and Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick- Luneburg, in Berlin, Germany
Various scenes, not necessarily in chronological order, associated with the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia, daughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Prince Ernest Augustus of Brunswick- Luneburg, son of the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland on 24 May, 1913, in Berlin, Germany. King George V of England enters a royal coach followed by Kaiser Wilhelm II. Footman places carriage robe over their legs and they depart, followed by a mounted military rider escort. Another royal coach arrives immediately and Empress Auguste Victoria (Augusta Victoria) of Germany and her daughter, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, step into it. The coach moves away. View of many men in formal military uniforms on walkway behind. More carriages arriving as many ladies emerge from passageway to the walkway in the background. Princess Viktoria Luise, and Prince Ernest Augustus enter a motorcar. Contingents of mounted German Guards Cuirassiers lead the way for the royal coaches carrying King George V of England and Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Empress Auguste Victoria and Princess Victoria Louise. More contingents of mounted German Guards Cuirassiers follow behind.
Early 20th century America footage; establishment and early circumstances of the U.S. Department of Labor
Film opens with view from a building overlooking President Woodrow Wilson's Inauguration Day parade along Pennsylvania Avenue, on March 4, 1913. A large contingent of U.S. Army West Point cadets march in forefront of the parade. Spectators line the sidewalks. Several stand atop buildings. Outgoing President, William Howard Taft is seen in his office signing a bill establishing the U.S. Department of Labor. Closeup of the bill and Taft signing it. Scenes of traffic and pedestrians in New York City. Some of the pedestrians appear to be wealthy class. Crowded early 20th century city streets filled with various horse drawn carriages together with bus traffic and early automobiles in chaotic confusion. A double decker bus with open top and sign "Fifth Avenue" and lower sign "To 22nd Street Only" operates in busy traffic on 5th Avenue beside horse drawn carriages and other motorized vehicles. Glimpses of women working in a factory; Men pouring molten metal into molds; Women punching time clocks as they leave a factory. Newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island, New York City circa 1910 or during first 10 years of the 1900 decade. View of the Statue of Liberty. Women working in a textile factory. Men tapping a furnace in a steel plant. Pushcarts and peddlers at market lining the curb in a Jewish neighborhood of New York City (possibly lower east side). Brief view of pioneer Labor leader Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor. He hold a walking stick and doffs his hat. Sketches illustrating scenes of labor-related violence. Department of Labor sign being affixed to its location. A horse and wagon, representing the first assets of the new Department. A group of persons illustrative of the employees in the Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Kaiser Wilhelm II dedicates Germany's new Olympic Stadium on the 25th Anniversary of his Coronation
On June 8, 1913, the 25th anniversary of his coronation, Kaiser Wilhelm II presided over the inauguration of the new stadium (Deutsches Stadion) built near Berlin, to host the 1916 Olympics. These scenes were recorded immediately after the ceremonies. A German Admiral exits from a stadium building in Deutsches Stadion (Deutsches Stadion, Olympischer Platz 3, 14053 Berlin). Soon after, Kaiser Wilhelm II, exits, conversing with German Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg. The Kaiser is attired in Hussar full dress uniform with fur busby. A German officer salutes and directs the Kaiser to athletes (German Olympic hopefuls) standing to the side, whom he introduces to the Kaiser. The Chancellor turns back into the building, and Empress Augusta Viktoria emerges and stands nearby, as the Kaiser speaks with the athletes and shakes hands with several of them. He chats amicably with the introducing officer, who smiles and salutes. The Kaiser then climbs into a waiting carriage in which the Empress is already seated. She holds a booklet or program in her hand. Attendants place a carriage robe over the Royal Couple and the carriage departs. Spectators watching the Royals are seen behind a railing at the Grunewald Racecourse track (part of the complex). The broad expanse of athletic grounds is behind them. Final scenes show many youths, walking along at the end of the ceremonies. in various uniforms (representing schools or clubs). some carry programs. some wear sashes on their outfits. Family groups are also seen. Stadium seats are seen briefly in the background to the left. A group of girls wearing dark skirts and white blouses with dark ties, are among the various small groups of youth walking together. (Note: The Deutsches Stadion was located in an area reserved as a Peoples' Park, by the Kaiser, in 1904. The property was leased for 30 years, in 1907, by the Union-Klub for the Grunewald Racecourse. But it also continued to serve general sports activities. The stadium was built on the racecourse grounds.)
