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General Motors (GM) engages Detroit police to stop UAW-CIO picketing during strike. GM then obtains State Court injunction against picketing.

Film begins showing signs in business establishment window supporting General Motors strikers of Local 235 UAW-CIO. A siren in heard as the camera pans over a large group of uniformed Detroit City police officers, some on motorcycles. Across the street, several striking picketers carry signs, as another large group of police officers stand nearby. Closeup of a black maria police van parked next to a formation of mounted police officers. Closeup glimpse of an officers gun belt and cartridges. Camera pans over the congregation of police. Street filled with strikers carrying signs. Police allow only 4 picketers, who cross from the street in which they are gathered, to the city of Hamtramick at the Detroit border. Camera pans over Police gathered at the corner, as a line of striking women snakes around a telephone pold at the Detroit-Hamtramick border, to picket in the latter city. A group of 10 pickets is allowed by police to enter Hamtramick from the Detroit street. Next, a number of strikers' children challenges the police to cross the intercity boundary. Closeup of a father and small son. Men, women, and children are finally seen picketing in Hamtramick. Slate reads: "Steering Gear." (Narrator says: "Chevrolet Gear and Axle remains closed.") Next, a court proclamation is read in rapid fire declaration by a crier in front of a court building where some strikers stand on the steps reading the announcement. Closeup of the State of Michigan court order prohibiting picketing and union members discussing it. Scene shifts to a union meeting room where members ask about the injunction and discuss its impact.

Date: 1939
Duration: 2 min 31 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048190
Baseball - Detroit Tigers opening day 1929 at Navin Field

The opening day of the 1929 baseball season in Detroit, Michigan. View of the large crowd in the stands at Navin Field. Ford Model A car parked by the stands inside the stadium. Detroit Tigers part-owner Walter Briggs talks to Tigers manager Bucky Harris on radio station WWJ. Henry Ford shakes hands with Harris and speaks into the microphone. Briggs and a Detroit player beside the Ford. A band, Tiger players, and the opposing Cleveland Indians march around the stadium. Ford and Briggs talking in the stands. Fords holds baseball, throws it out to unseen player on the field. The men talk and smile. Harris outside the dugout. Two other players sit inside the dugout. Several Detroit players stand just outside the dugout.

Date: 1929, April 24
Duration: 3 min 13 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066190
A stagecoach being driven around to mark the 100th anniversary of Ypsilanti, Michigan.

A stagecoach to mark the 100th anniversary of settlement in Ypsilanti, Michigan. A stagecoach with a sign on the top that reads ' on our way to Ypsilanti-100th anniversary-1823 to 1923' as it moves past people on street. Stagecoach in front of a pavilion in a park. Horses tied to a fence with ' Welcome' sign on it. Building with a sign on it that reads ' Welcome- Ypsilanti stage' Costumed ladies leave the building. Horses being fed and harnessed to coach. Stagecoach drives away.

Date: 1923
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059831
Town residents celebrate 100th Anniversary of Ypsilanti Michigan. A carriage travels roads and encounters a dramatized robbery.

A horse drawn carriage in Ypsilanti, Michigan. A horse drawn carriage makes a stop. Sign on the carriage reads "On our way to Ypsilanti's 100th Anniversary. 1823 to 1923". The carriage drives past a truck and pedestrian traffic in the business district. The carriage stops outside a building and a costumed woman and a child (in early 1800's clothing) get out and enter the building. The woman and the child come out of the building and get into the carriage. The carriage being driven away. The carriage drives down a country road. Dramatized scene in which Men in a car rob the carriage and its passengers. Men and women stand with their hands up as a man points a rifle at them.

Date: 1923
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059848
Diego Rivera working on his Detroit Industry Mural in Detroit,Michigan.

Views of Diego Rivera working on his Industrial Mural in Detroit,Michigan, located at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The Detroit Industry mural sections and the wall showing paintings and sculptures. View of a single section of the wall blank, and then after initial mural sketch has been added by Rivera. Diego Rivera and another worker at the wall of one of the sections of mural.

Date: 1932
Duration: 2 min 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675030962
U.S. soldiers stand guard at entrance of the Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct building in Detroit, Michigan.

Aftermath of Detroit riots in Detroit, Michigan, United States. Two men walk down. A woman comes out from a building. Detroit Police Department 10th Precinct building. U.S. soldiers stand guard at entrance of the building.

Date: 1967, July 28
Duration: 1 min 6 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675071097