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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.
Union-sponsored film about the 1939 Tool and Die Makers Union strike against General Motors in Detroit, Saginaw, and Cleveland.
Union members march beside a building singing about "solidarity." Slate reads "Fleetwood" superimposed on "Detroit." Closeup of flag reading: "Fleetwood Local 15, U.A.W. Detroit." Marcher carries American flag. One carries sign calling for: "Time and a half for overtime, and double time for Sunday and Holidays." Among other signs, one reads: "Equal Pay for Equal Work." Bronze plaque on building reads: "Frederick Coleman and Sons, Inc." Yard filled with striking workers. Trucks sent by General Motors Company (GM), to remove tool and die shops, from a factory, are prevented from moving by the mass of strikers from the unionized Frederick Coleman plant, who refuse to become "Scabs" (strike breakers). Meeting inside their own factory building, Coleman workers promise George F. Addes, Secretary Treasurer of the U.A.W. (Union of Auto Workers) that not a GM tool or die will leave their shop. They pose near auto parts waving their hats. A new slate appears reading: "Fisher" overlaying "Cleveland." A picket line is seen in a Fisher Body Factory yard, guarded by uniformed policemen, including some on horseback. One striker walks to a building identified by a sign as Strike Headquarters. Narrator says he can get a meal there. Inside, a strikers women's auxilliary has set up a Strike Kitchen, where he receives a cup of coffee and converses with a woman of the auxilliary. Next, he is seen reading a Cleveland newspaper with headline: "Police and Pickets clash at Fisher Plant." He is then seen at his home, having supper as his wife reads the newspaper. (Narrator notes that strike has lasted 19 days.) The man and his wife argue about the wisdom of striking. Their little girl runs to her father. The three of them hug and the man then goes to join the picketing. Scene reverts to earlier conversation with the womens' auxilliary person. She sympathizes with the man's concerns. Next, three union auxilliary women visit the man's wife. They try to assuage her fears about the labor strife. (In background, voice of a union auxilliary woman speaks about the Wagner Labor Act.) More views of the Fisher Plant factory yard, with police and strikers struggling. Still photograph of men running as shots ring out. Closeup of hand holding a tear gas shell. Still photograph of police using tear gas to disburse strikers. The women visiting the wife convince her of the soundness of the strike and she joins them as a union auxilliary worker in their Strike Kitchen. View of the film's protagonist man and his wife conversing amicably in their kitchen. Final scene shows the wife with her husband on a picket line holding a sign reading: " Women's Auxilliary Stands Behind Local No. 45 in this Fight." Camera focuses on one striker riding a horse bearing two signs. One points to the front of his horse and reads: "This is the C.I.O end." The other points to the horse's rear and reads: "This is the Company end."
Reconstruction work underway in North Korea after World War II
Views of North Korea during 1945 through 1950. Reconstruction going on in North Korea, new buildings being built. Korean country side and small islands in the bay as waves break on the shore. A group of North Koreans arrives at diamond mountain resort and look at Koo Rong Hun falls, they pose for pictures. Men and women in a reading room.
Propaganda film depicting life in North Korea circa 1947
National Motion Picture studio under construction in North Korea. A movie being filmed at the new studio. A sports meet for workers. Workers participate in various events like short put throw, long jump, marathon race, skiing. Montage of scenes as narrator states, we must abolish the 38th parallel, move south, throw out Syngman Rhee, crush imperialism and became one nation again. Soldiers with weapons and a mass meeting. Men ,women and students parade through Pyongyang street. Montage of Kim II Sung over Korean flags.
British artillery batteries move beyond Mametz during Battle of the Somme in France during World War I
Battle of the Somme, in World War 1.Two batteries of Royal field artillery moving to a position beyond Mametz, over battlefield where Gordons' and Devons' suffered losses during a charge on a ridge near Mametz. Horses pull numerous British artillery guns and limbers. The artillery assembling at the new location.
U.S. troops prepare and tow a 155 mm gun in World War I
Soldiers of American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) prepare to move a 155mm gun in World War 1. View of a dozen American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) soldiers working around a 155mm gun (Canon de 155 Grande Puissance Filloux (GPF) mle.1917). The breech has a cover over it. The soldiers jack up the gun to allow them to close the split trails. After closing them, they roll and secure the limber underneath the trails. Afterwards, they secure a steel housing over the rear of the gun. Next, they secure a tow bar from a Holt-caterpillar model 75 tractor to the gun carriage and tow the gun to its new location. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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