May Day Parade at Union Square in the Flat Iron district of New York City. A crowd parades with signs and banners. The crowd lines the sidewalks. Banners held by the people include "No Jim Crow" (expressing opposition to Jim Crow racial discrimination practices) and "Defeat the Vinson Bill" carried by members of the Fancy Fur Dyers Local 88 chapter. (Vinson Bill was H.R. 621, increasing Naval ROTC personnel by more than 3 times current size). Side of a rolling float along the street reads 'Convoys Means Coffins'. The parade turns at the 17th Street.
May Day Parade at Union Square in the Flat Iron district of New York City. A crowd with communist and socialist sympathies parades with signs and banners. Banners address worker rights and speak out against United States participation in World War 2. A banner reads 'Fur Floor Workers Union'. The crowd jams the streets and lines the sidewalks. Some of the signs held by people read 'Why Not Bosses Fight Their Own War' and 'Our War Is Battle For Freedom, Wages And Better Working Conditions'. Sign seen "Keep the Yanks in the Yankee Stadium." The parade turns at the 17th Street. The side of a float has anti-war message that reads 'Convoys Means Coffin'. People sit on steps of a building.
Shortly before America's direct involvement in World War 2, view of a rally and speaker for the American Union for Organization Against War in New York City. The anti-war speaker shows signs "Fight the Draft" and "No Loans to England. No Arms to anyone!" People in a crowd listen to the speaker. One man holds a sign which reads 'Selectees! Protest any Extension of Army Service - Write Your Congressman'. Another sign reads, "The Army and Navy are hotbeds of fascism."
American Peace Mobilization meeting of anti-war persons and pacifists at Mecca Auditorium, New York, early in World War 2. Close-up of many pins on a man's coat lapel, for various labor and anti-war organizations. Exteriors of the building. A man buys a newspaper. People enter Mecca Temple for the meeting. View of many pedestrians walking on busy sidewalk in front of auditorium building. A man sells newspapers on a street. Sign on the entrance reads 'Welcome American People's Meeting'. People enter the building.
English war bride and her child are reunited with her American husband from Oregon, as she arrives in New York City on a ship from England after World War II. He expresses joy at being reunited, and states that, before the war, he was in the lumbering industry in Oregon. Asked about more children, she says they would like to have a son.
British war bride, and her American husband, who were married twenty months prior in World War II, are interviewed upon her arrival by ship in New York City, United States. She is smartly dressed with a corsage on her outfit. She looks forward to having their own home and family. It was almost four years ago when she and her husband first met. The couple kiss at the prodding of interviewer.
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