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UAW-CIO negotiates 1st National Wage Pact with GM after striking over the issues

Opening Slate reads,"Fisher"( overlaid on "Pontiac") The United Auto Workers (UAW) Pontiac strike committee is seen in discussions. Several wear hats reading,"Local 594." They discuss their strike at the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and General Motors (GM) Company's intent to bring in Strike Breakers. View of union members on a picket line outside the factory. They swarm over a car carrying Strike Breakers, determined not to allow them through, even pushing it backwards. Uniformed policemen forcibly enter the fray and try to prevent the strikers from denying access to the plant. Men and women strike supporters looking on. Strikers begin to rock a Strike Breaker car. Policeman wielding a billy club walks toward union supporters. Closeups of men on the picket line. Some drinking water from a supporter. View of the factory building with sign reading: "Fisher Body, Pontiac Division, General Motors Corporation." Newspaper headline reads," Dickinson Sends State Police to Pontiac Strike." (Luren Dudley Dickinson was Governor of Michigan in 1939. Glimpse of car with painted sign reading: "Michigan 157 State Police." A phalanx of armed State troopers, carrying billy clubs, moving toward the strikers. They deploy across the street from the picket line, with the intent of protecting GM property. Strikers leave and State policemen are seen on empty road and sidewalk. Strike Breakers do not appear. But members of other unions, supported by hundreds of citizens of Pontiac soon fill the area in a massive display of solidarity with the UAW cause. Closeup of a little girl in the gathering. Closeup of a man holding a little girl, next to a woman. Headline in Detroit News reads: GM and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Executives to Confer on Strike." Camera pans down rapidly from top of a General Motors office building. Eight CIO officials stand at the entrance of the building. Closeup of Philip Murray, President of the CIO. Camera pans across the officials, showing Walter Reuther, of the UAW, standing next to Philip Murray and UAW President, R.J. Thomas next to Reuther. A group of UAW union members and supporters marches around the GM office building. View from a high building, downward shows union members and supporters parading in formation on the sidewalk in front of the GM headquarters. View at street level of reenactors parading in much less disciplined manner. Some playing musical instruments. Families in the group. A man walks behind a moving 1928 Chevrolet automobile and then climbs upon its roof. Another glimpse of the highly disciplined paraders seen earlier. Men clowning around in the street. Another view of sidewalk filled with union members and supporters. UAW newspaper reads: GM Strikers Win, announcing 1st National Wage Pact, ratified by membership. UAW-CIO negotiators looking over the new contract.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048194
United Auto Workers and Congress of Industrial Organizations union members celebrate new contract with General Motors Corporation

As film opens, United Auto Worlers (UAW) and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) union workers are celebrating their unprecedented labor contract with the General Motors Company (GM) , covering union workers in all GM plants. Men and women of the union Auxiliary celebrate, including many gathered at the entrance to the GM headquarters building in Detroit, Michigan. Scene shifts to UAW leader, Walter Reuther, speaking in a broadcast microphone. Women ride atop a union loudspeaker equipped vehicle. Celebrants ride in a car displaying a sign reading: "AGREEMENT, UAWA & GM, 1. Fire all Scabs 2. Rehire strikers." Another car has a sign reading: "Victory Rally, Tonite, 7PM." Camera focuses on UAW President, R.J. Thomas shaking hands with CIO leader, Philip Murray. Walter Reuther of the UAW stands beside Philip Murray and places his hand on Murray's shoulder. Closeup of Philip Murray. Members of the women's union auxiliary march in victory. GM tool and die machinists are next, seen, looking over the contract. (Their strike initiated the broad based union response to GM, leading to the new contract.) Next scenes show the tool and die makers back to work. Some are seen using overhead crane and chain to maneuver a heavy machine part. Closeups of milling machine, power drill , and lathe in operation. A worker lowers protective gear over his head and begins welding. Two men use hand held grinders to finish parts. UAW President R.J. Thomas speaks into a microphone. Cheering women walk past a GM plant, outdoors, as viewed from behind. Cheerful closeup of a mother, father and infant.

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048195
Decorated floats at the Labor Day parade in Princeton, Indiana

Decorated floats at the Labor Day parade in Princeton, Indiana. Dignitaries on the podium witness a colorful ceremony as workers including coal miners' march at the parade.

Location: Princeton Indiana USA
Date: 1947, September 4
Duration: 1 min 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048196
Women at work in various factories, United States

'Behind the scene in machine age' Women work at a printing plant in United States along with male workers. Women also work in garment and shoe factories. They work in machine shops and produce finished goods. A woman working in a textile mill.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048203
Highlights the need to prevent human wastage at industries in United States

Emphasizes upon the need to prevent wastage of human effort at industries in United States. Need for governmental initiative to regulate the human wastage. Uncle Sam's animation to depict wastage of human effort.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048204
Various problems in working conditions at the industries in United States

Emphasizes the need to improve women's working conditions and industrial efficiency. Women work on machines in a factory, passing metal strips through hole-cutting machines. Animation describes problems of working conditions for women in factories. Animated Uncle Sam views links of a chain close-up with a magnifying glass. The chain links have problems labeled on them, such as unemployment, industrial injuries, misfit in jobs, thoughtless hiring and firing, occupational diseases, and poor working conditions. The chain crumbles in the hands of the animated Uncle Sam.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1931
Duration: 2 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048205
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