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Cleveland Police department overwhelms UAW strikers at Fisher Body factory. UAW delegates protest police brutality in Detroit. Farmers union supports strikers with food.

Views of General Motors (GM) Fisher Body factory in Cleveland Ohio, where United Auto Workers (UAW) union members are picketing as uniformed policemen monitor them. Strikers next to a large chalk board announcing that "GM renews negotiations at 10 AM today." Closeup of Union news flyer announcing that "GM bows to union, negotiations underway." Sign reads: "Department of Industrial Relations, Fisher Body Corp." on a building where strikers are picketing. A large group of uniformed policeman, including some on motorcycles, and mounted on horseback, move toward picketing strikers. Change of scene shows UAW leaders leaving a building in Detroit, Michigan, on their way to appeal to the Detroit City Council, to protest against police brutality. Union President R.J.Thomas, and Secretary, George F. Gaddes, are seen on a porch of the building, wishing them well, with words of advice and encouragement. The union delegation is seen entering Detroit City Hall. Inside an office door is labeled: "Common Council Chamber." The delegation is seated in chairs, as they appeal to Council members. Union members and women auxiliary members are seen preparing meals for strikers and their families. View of the CIO-UAW headquarters next to the Hotel Paul Revere, in Detroit. Men and several union auxiliary women enter cars to drive into the country, at the invitation of the Farmer's union, to obtain donations of food from them. The motorcade of cars is seen driving through the streets of Detroit, with flags flying from each, and later out in the countryside. At a farm, a union member presents his UAW membership card to a farmer. Other do the same with a different farmer. Next, the union members are seen carrying bushel baskets provided by the farmers, and picking vegetables from a field. Farmer on tractor drives in adjoining field. Closeup of a union auxiliary woman picking green beans. A bushel basket being filled with green beans. Men loading full bushels of vegetables into the cars, and driving away, as farm families wave farewell.

Date: 1939
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048191
President Hoover addresses the American Legion Convention and urges not to overtax government treasury in Detroit, Michigan.

United States President Herbert Hoover at the American Legion Convention in Detroit, Michigan. President Hoover stands next to a woman as he waves. The President addresses a large gathering of war veterans at the convention at Olympia Hall. The President asks the veterans against over taxiing the government treasury. A large crowd gathered in the street as men in cars drive past them during an annual parade.

Date: 1931, September 24
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675059115
Herbert Hoover with Thomas Edison arrive for Light's Golden Jubilee; greeted by Henry Ford and crowd in Detroit Michigan

President of the United States Herbert Clark Hoover visits Detroit, together with Thomas A. Edison at invitation of Henry Ford for the celebration "Light's Golden Jubilee" honoring Thomas Edison and his invention of the electric light 50 years earlier. Automobile carrying President Hoover turns on corner of business district in rainy conditions. A policeman stands at the corner of the street. Spectators under umbrellas gather at a sidewalk. A decorated flag on the speaker's platform. Audience in raincoats and hats with umbrellas. A wood-burning locomotive train built in 1860 and decked with bunting arrives at railroad station of Smiths Creek Michigan depot at Greenfield Village. This station is where Edison, as a youngster 70 years earlier had been thrown off a similar train for a fire in the baggage car triggered by Edison's chemicals. Ford moved the station to Greenfield Village. Spectators with umbrellas on platform. President Herbert Hoover and Thomas Alva Edison exit the baggage car to join crowd on platform. President Hoover poses with American founder of the Ford Motor Company, Henry Ford, and the guest of honor, Thomas Edison. The three men converse. In the next scene, at a reconstructed Menlo Lab in Greenfield Village, Edison, Ford, and Hoover stand together as Thomas Edison recreates the lighting of the first electric lamp. Thomas Edison gestures as he points to equipment. Edison's former assistant, Francis Jehl, pours from a vessel into the top of the electric light apparatus as Hoover, Ford, and Edison look on.

Date: 1929, October 21
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675068388
U.S. Navy ZMC-2 airship moves out from hangar and takes off from airfield for first test flight in Detroit,Michigan.

First test flight of metal airship in Detroit,Michigan. United States Navy ZMC-2 airship moves out from hangar at the airfield. People stand near airship. It takes off.

Date: 1929, August 24
Duration: 1 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072929
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
5th Liberty (Victory) Loan drive. A huge adding machine shows Detroit's contribution towards purchase of Liberty Bonds

Postwar 5th Liberty (Victory) Loan drive in United States. Large crowd gathered. A huge facsimile Burroughs adding machine displaying Detroit's contributions towards postwar sale of Liberty Bonds during the 5th annual drive. It shows Detroit's goal (duty) as $55,494,413; Detroit's sales to April 22, 1919, as: $25,410,300, and the balance as Oversubscribed, with total sales from the drive reaching $ 68,688,800. An Army officer (without headgear) addresses a large gathering as he stands on a makeshift platform.

Date: 1919, April
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048764