People exchange products in the United States during the Great Depression, trading without money. A man takes out a crate from a car and gives it to another man. Buildings in the background. People buying vegetables from a market. A board reads: 'Never Mind the Holiday We will trust you'. Other board reads: 'You don't need money. What you have got? We will take anything'. A man arrives in the market holding a guitar. He gives the guitar to another man and receives a thing. A vehicle passing on a street. People gather in a large number on the street. Some of the people gather inside a building.
The 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt with his daughter Anna Roosevelt and granddaughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall (sometimes known as Sistie) outside a building circa 1930. Roosevelt holds a cane while leaning against a column and plays with his grandson using the cane. People gather in the convention hall for the 1932 Democratic National Convention. Roosevelt addresses them, speaking of the need to "break foolish traditions" and "to win in this crusade to restore America to its own people." The people applaud.
Safety measures to be undertaken while working. Boxes are loaded in a hand truck in the United States beside a warehouse. The boxes fall on a passerby due to being carelessly loaded on the hand truck. A worker carefully lines up the boxes on the truck. Inside a factory plant, a worker rolls up the sleeves of his shirt before operating a large drill press in the factory. View of a large platform machine being operated by a giant pulley. A foreman views the pulley and the worker stops the machine. The pulley is disengaged and a man approaches with safety barricade pieces to place around the pulley while it is worked on. Slate indicates, "Cyanide is valuable in treating steel, but it is dangerous to the eyes. Use goggles and be safe. A worker working without goggles is then seen near a furnace. He covers his face with his hands and runs away from the furnace. A maintenance worker partially disassembles and then attaches a new guard over a large grinding wheel in a factory.
A large reinforced box in a plant yard in the United States. The cover on the box rises higher with successive detonations. A building in the background. Smoke from the chimneys of a factory.
The largest Direct Current Electrical Control Board in the world, located in the United States. Safety devices around the electrical control board. The devices include rubber mattings, insulated fences and circuit breakers. A man walking along the fence.
Safety measures for safe working conditions in the United States. Men in a waiting room. A man works seated at a desk. He gives a paper to other man. Attendants rush a patient on a stretcher through doorways down a corridor. A man cleans a water fountain and then a manufacturing plant worker drinks water from the water fountain. An attendant sprays germ killing agent on floors of a washroom, restroom, or bathroom. Workers in a plant yard. One of the workers is reading a newspaper and not paying attention, and is almost hit by a tractor. Inspection of cleaning materials in a worker's carrier box. An attendant cleans the water fountain.
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