Emphasizes upon the need to improve the working conditions for women in industries and improving industrial efficiency. Women manually stuff and stitch automobile cushions at a factory in United States. Women operate machines and cushions being mechanically stitched thus leading to efficiency in production.
Emphasizes upon the need to avoid waste of human skills and talents in industries due to the dawn of machine age in United States. Enlists the problems brought about due to mechanization of industries: loss of job, keeping pace with machines, loss of wages and monotony of work. Due to increase in dial telephone system and a reduction in manual telephone system displaced women workers being given other jobs such as information operators, special operators and switch board attendants. View of telephone switchboard operators and people using rotary telephones, talking on the phone. Close up view of face of a rotary dial telephone "JERome 8901" home location listed. Hand dialing the rotary telephone. A graph shows a decline in the need for human beings at industries due to coming of machine age.
People gathered to watch the coronation of the Apple Blossom Queen in the United States. A man dressed as an apple is carried in a litter. Majorettes carry and unfold a huge American flag in front of a city or town hall. Men and women watch the ceremony from the lawn. A man crowns a teenaged beauty queen as the town’s Apple Blossom Queen. The man kisses the girl on the cheeks. The Apple Blossom Queen and others dressed in white gown pose under a cherry blossom tree. The beauty queen kisses an apple blossom branch and smiles. The Apple Blossom Queen sits on a throne in a float during the Apple Blossom Parade. A young girl eating candy while watching the parade. Girls wave from decorated floats as they pass by large crowds in a street.
A U.S. soldier throws two exploding incendiary hand grenades during tests in the United States in World War 1. . Closeup of an incendiary canister. The tester (unseen) taps the fuse end of the canister and lays it down on a rough corrugated surface. It smokes before exploding and creating an intense flame that melts the canister. Molten remains of the device.
Curtain manufacturing factory in United States. Women inspect the length of curtains by spreading them on a table. Women sew curtains using Singer machines. Curtains processed on a machine by men.
Curtain manufacturing factory in United States. Selvage of curtains woven by women as they work on a machine to prevent damage to the lace. Selvage is trimmed off. Piles of curtains lying at the factory as women work. Curtains scalloped and over locked in a single operation.
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