Westland Mine coal mine workers, wearing helmets with lights, are gathered in a room as they listen to a radio news broadcast in a local office of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to the labor strike by 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. Maps of Westland mines No. 1 and 2 are among many that line the walls of the office. The mine workers look at a notice of the Government takeover ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, and a notice to their union, The United Mine Workers of America. Coal miners check their personal equipment in preparation for entering mines, with the strike now ended.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A statue of Alfred Krupp. Men at typewriters. Coal being mined under Allied control. Soldiers load coal onto a truck. Soldiers look at a map. German men and women cut trees to burn wood in place of coal. Soldiers and officials at a meeting. A freight train and a convoy of trucks on the move.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A German man reads a newspaper and looks at advertisements. People at the Central Postal Inquiry Bureau in Hamburg. People seek permission to travel by trains. People at the platform as a rail road train pulls up. People get onto the train. A British flag at a military government court room. A hearing being conducted. An officer presides over the hearing. A German police band plays. A Red Cross team checks the blood pressure, height and weight of German civilians. Children play: boys playing in rubble of destroyed buildings, and boys playing on moving equipment in a bombed railroad yard. German children playing on top of a giant dirt mound. Men in a farm. A man delivers a speech and people listen. A German school teacher in a classroom (possibly a church, with crucifix on wall behind him), and crowd of children in the classroom. Chalk board at front of room. German boys seated at desks with pencils and paper doing school work.
Life of people in a British occupied zone of Germany after World War II. A British soldier guards the area as German civilians move about on a bridge in the background. Women move down a staircase. An air raid siren sounds. People sleep on benches. Shadow of girls as they move round in a circle. A damaged building. Judges being administered an oath of office by a British officer. Girls hold hands as they move round in a circle.
Activities at a slaughterhouse in Germany. The interior of the slaughterhouse. Men wield sharp knives to butcher and cut meat chunks. Butchered meat chunks hanging from the ceiling.
Activities of children on the streets in Germany soon after the end of World War 2. The children play on the streets. Boys and girls hold hands in a circle and play a game with one other child crouched in the middle of the moving circle. Buildings seen in the background. A baby in a pram. A lamppost nearby.
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