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UAW-CIO negotiates 1st National Wage Pact with GM after striking over the issues

Opening Slate reads,"Fisher"( overlaid on "Pontiac") The United Auto Workers (UAW) Pontiac strike committee is seen in discussions. Several wear hats reading,"Local 594." They discuss their strike at the Fisher Body plant in Pontiac, Michigan, and General Motors (GM) Company's intent to bring in Strike Breakers. View of union members on a picket line outside the factory. They swarm over a car carrying Strike Breakers, determined not to allow them through, even pushing it backwards. Uniformed policemen forcibly enter the fray and try to prevent the strikers from denying access to the plant. Men and women strike supporters looking on. Strikers begin to rock a Strike Breaker car. Policeman wielding a billy club walks toward union supporters. Closeups of men on the picket line. Some drinking water from a supporter. View of the factory building with sign reading: "Fisher Body, Pontiac Division, General Motors Corporation." Newspaper headline reads," Dickinson Sends State Police to Pontiac Strike." (Luren Dudley Dickinson was Governor of Michigan in 1939. Glimpse of car with painted sign reading: "Michigan 157 State Police." A phalanx of armed State troopers, carrying billy clubs, moving toward the strikers. They deploy across the street from the picket line, with the intent of protecting GM property. Strikers leave and State policemen are seen on empty road and sidewalk. Strike Breakers do not appear. But members of other unions, supported by hundreds of citizens of Pontiac soon fill the area in a massive display of solidarity with the UAW cause. Closeup of a little girl in the gathering. Closeup of a man holding a little girl, next to a woman. Headline in Detroit News reads: GM and CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Executives to Confer on Strike." Camera pans down rapidly from top of a General Motors office building. Eight CIO officials stand at the entrance of the building. Closeup of Philip Murray, President of the CIO. Camera pans across the officials, showing Walter Reuther, of the UAW, standing next to Philip Murray and UAW President, R.J. Thomas next to Reuther. A group of UAW union members and supporters marches around the GM office building. View from a high building, downward shows union members and supporters parading in formation on the sidewalk in front of the GM headquarters. View at street level of reenactors parading in much less disciplined manner. Some playing musical instruments. Families in the group. A man walks behind a moving 1928 Chevrolet automobile and then climbs upon its roof. Another glimpse of the highly disciplined paraders seen earlier. Men clowning around in the street. Another view of sidewalk filled with union members and supporters. UAW newspaper reads: GM Strikers Win, announcing 1st National Wage Pact, ratified by membership. UAW-CIO negotiators looking over the new contract.

Date: 1939
Duration: 5 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048194
Scenes from the Ford Company pavilion in the the 1939 New York World's Fair

Visitors gather at the Ford Motor Company exhibit in the 1939 New York World's Fair. They gather in front of an exhibit contrasting hand manufacture with modern machines used in production and assembly lines. Visitors entering the Ford theater at the Fair. They watch a live stage production entitled: "A Thousand Times Neigh,"starring the American Ballet Caravan and "Dobbin," the dancing horse. View of the stage show in progress. A woman fashionably dressed crosses the stage and is next seen posing beside a stylish prototype Ford automobile. Views of a Ford motion picture entitled: "Symphony in F," that animates elements of auto production in an entertaining way. Visitors climbing stairs from the Industrial Hall, to the Garden Court. Ford cars are seen driving along overhead roadways. The visitors line up to ride those cars in an exhibit called "The Road of Tomorrow." Several people getting into a car at the exhibit. Cars driving around and through the building. In one scene, the symbols of the Fair, the "Trylon and Perisphere" are seen in the background. View of the Landscape Garden Court, where visitors walk among trees and fountains. "The New World Ensemble," conducted by Ferde Grofe, plays music in a small semi-outdoor enclave.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051608
People listening to music played by the New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe at 1939 World's Fair.

The New York world's fair of 1939 to 1940. Views in garden court. The New World Ensemble under direction of Ferde Groffe plays in an amphitheater. Amusement section with dancers and ice-skaters. People ski jump and parachute jump. People walk and being pushed in chair cars. The souvenir stand. People eat food. Views of fair at night. Lighting and fireworks at night.

Date: 1939
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051609
Dr. Langmuir's Nobel Prize, industrial factories, 1939 World's Fair, and aerial views of cities.

Graphic: "This film is restricted". Group of industrial smoke stacks emitting smoke and pollution. Aerial view of Hoover Dam. Large power lines coming from Hoover Dam. View of George Washington Bridge in New York City with traffic. Aerial view of early highway interchange. Aerial view of Manhattan, New York City and New York City skyline. Aerial view of smoggy city with railroad switching yard in foreground. Early highway crowded with car traffic. People wading in water at the beach. People looking out from high vantage point. 1939 World's Fair Trylon and Perisphere. Interior view Grand Central Station or early Penn Station railroad train station. Porters and travelers walking in train station. View of Egyptian ruins and pyramids. Ruins from 300 BC. Moving timeline graphic depicts dates of modern advances in geometry, arabic numerals, physics, and industrial revolution with electricity, chemistry, railroads, telegraph, and automobiles. Factory with smoke stacks, pollution, and view of a large grain elevator. Foundry with sparks flying. Line of turbine generators. General Electric company building with GE logo on top. Dr. Irving Langmuir works in a lab at the plant demonstrating creation of thin films of oil in a pan. View of Noble Prize won by him for his research about the basic structure and behavior of molecules. View of non-reflective glass demonstrated on General Electric meter. Scientist with beakers and test tubes. Scientists in laboratory and looking through microscopes.

Date: 1945
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048644
Travelogue of northeast and mid Atlantic regions of United States in the mid 1980s.

Presents travelogue of regions of United States. Pictures show sites located in New York, New England and Mid Atlantic States. In Manhattan, views of Statue of Liberty, Brooklyn Bridge, aerial views of New York City skyscrapers, plane flying in sky over Manhattan skyline, including view of Twin Towers of World Trade Center. Monuments, shopping areas, Carnegie Hall, pedestrians in New York City. A door man closing a door on a taxi cab. A trainer teaches aerobics dance class to students in typical 1980s exercise fashions. Times Square and clubs and theaters of Broadway at night with lighted neon signs. Elevated view of Lincoln Center main plaza at night. A man and woman at a restaurant toast and clink glasses of wine. Night time aerials of skyscrapers in New York City including Empire State Building with colored lights at top. View of Niagara Falls. Yacht at river in Boston. Buildings in the background. People in boats and outside cafe. Downtown Boston landmarks and buildings. Fishing boats providing Lobster. Horse-drawn carriage, beaches, casinos and State House in Pennsylvania. Amish carriage pulled by a horse on roads in Pennsylvania. View of Atlantic City beach and casinos and hotels. Monuments in Washington DC including White House, Washington Monument, Statue of LIncoln in Lincoln Memorial, U.S. Capitol building viewed from grounds of Washington Monument. View of fossils inside Smithsonian Natural History Museum. Spirit of '76 and space vehicles seen in Air and Space Museum. Planes on tarmac at Washington National Airport with Jefferson Memorial and Washington Monument in background. Travelers at airport rental car counters for Hertz and National. Small hotel or Inn in Virginia. Virginia countryside and view of Monticello. People in historic costume on horses, with carriages, and on foot in Colonial Williamsburg.

Date: 1986
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039833
Views of Capitol Building, Lincoln Memorial, soldiers, cadets, and midshipmen parading in United States

Capitol Building and Lincoln Memorial (2 Lincoln Memorial Cir NW, Washington, DC 20002) at Washington D.C. U.S. Military Academy cadets marching at West Point. Scene then blends to close up view of U.S. Army troops marching, wearing helmets and shouldering rifles with fixed bayonets, in World War I. Scene then blends again to U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen marching at Annapolis. Visitors walking the grounds of Mount Vernon. Statue of George Washington at 1939 New York World’s Fair. Re-enactment of the Crossing of the Delaware. Lincoln's Statue at the Lincoln Memorial. An actor portrays Abraham Lincoln in a theatrical film. A view of a New York City victory parade for American soldiers returning World War I in February 1919.

Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041795