Mine workers trim loose ground and large chunks with pick-axes and iron rods at zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. Workers forget to trim muck-pile and huge chunk collapses. Shift boss orders miners to get out in time and avoid an accident.
Zinc company's ambulance stands outside the zinc mine of Franklin,New Jersey.Rescue squad arrives carrying an injured miner on stretcher.Stretcher is put in the ambulance. Ambulance arrives at company's hospital.
Timber is loaded on shaft car with a lifting device called derrick at zinc mine in Franklin New Jersey. Miner attempting to enter the loaded shaft car is stopped.
Zinc mine worker pulls a chute car carelessly at zinc mine in Franklin,New Jersey. The worker gets squeezed in between the car and a timber post.
Zinc miners deposit work checks on check board at the top landing shaft of the zinc mine in Franklin,NJ. An old man in charge finds out a drunken miner and sends him off from the mine.
United Garment workers (UGW) Union members discuss plan for 1914 convention in Nashville Tennessee. View from railroad locomotive traveling on a straight train track. A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train. Trainman on rail car waving a lantern. Views of the convention, October 12, 1914, in Nashville, headed by UGW President Thomas A. Rickert of Chicago. Labor union locals from New York, Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, were deemed in arrears on dues (although they had been on strike) and not allowed to participate. They walked out, with the Chicago delegation too. View of Telegram sent from Nashville, by the dissidents, to Sidney Hillman in New York, October, 1914, asking him to head a rival union. Photo of Hillman taking telephone call. A special convention at Webster Hall, in New York City, where dissidents join with Journeyman Tailors union and form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, with Sidney Hillman as President. Key members of the new union are seen standing in front of a car. Sidney Hillman in his office dictating to his secretary. Copies of the new union's House organs in various languages. Amalgamated Clothing Workers holding signs in various languages. Workers pose on a truck by a sign reading:"A Fair Deal, A Chance to Live, Arbitration is all we ask." Workers in cars. Girls on roller skates wearing sashes reading: "Don't Be A Scab." A man in a barrel with sign reading: "Can't afford to wear pants. Pa works in an open shop." Women pose in sandwich boards that spell out: "Closed Shop." Philadelphia garment worker ostensibly writing letter to Sidney Hillman. Shop owners examine sewn item and shop records while man works at sewing machine.
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