Interior of the U.S. National Labor Relation Board office, men in suits seated around a giant conference table, discussing. A United States flag in the corner. Man points out southeastern states in the United States on a map where union branches are needed. A car on road and a road sign for route 411 in Georgia. A union organizer man gets out of the car goes to a house, speaks to a worker, already seated, shows him some paper. Woman washing a young child at the house. A gathering of 12-15 people outside a textile mill, beside a railroad yard, as the new union is taking shape. Train goes by on tracks behind the men. Music "union train a coming" plays in background. Union organizers hand out leaflets at the textile mill gates, informing workers of the union idea. Views of campaigning of election. Banners can be seen saying 'Protect your job'. Voting is done, ballet paper is seen with title "National Labor Relations Board." Close up views of hands of workers putting ballots into voting box. Views of a union meeting of wool workers that are planning to negotiate with labor management on behalf of workers.
View of spinning world globe. Faces of serious and brooding people in various parts of the world. Close-up views of faces of serious looking men. View of a crowd of people in France listening to a speaker on the street. The faces of people listening to the speaker. Next view shows what appears to be French police in the streets chasing a protest crowd and making it disperse. Next brief scene shows a crowd of people and police in China surrounding what appears to be a European man and pushing him along through a curtain-flanked doorway. A person holding a motion picture camera is among the jostling crowd. Insignia of the United Nations and flags of the member nations around the insignia. View of the UN headquarters (405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States) in New York City. Traffic on the road. A flag of the United States on a building. A banner reads "Association for Mental Health, First Annual Forum on Anxiety and Tension." A man speaks into a microphone. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen at the podium addressing the association. Members of the association sit on chairs. The scene changes to a quiet, tree-lined street in a town or suburb. A car parked on the road. A man rests in a backyard garden on a hammock. Contrasting scene shows a man come rushing and running out of his house, hastily putting on his suit jacket. He stops, remembers something and goes back in again, then comes out before getting in his 1950s sedan car and rushing away. In next scene the man in shirt and tie is seen rushing through his lunch at a restaurant, conducting business while eating and smoking a cigarette. View of a angry taxicab driver as he looks out his car window and shouts at stopped traffic. He steps from the car and shouts about traffic delays. Another man works with a pneumatic jack hammer. A man seated on a chair in his living room holds his head as his wife yells at him and berates her husband. She is seen shaking a finger at him and scolding him. View of his fingers tapping anxiously on the arm of the chair and finally make a fist. More scenes of the angry woman wagging her finger at the man in anger. A pair of white swans in mirror-like water. A white Polar bear in a hot cage at a zoo. A man looks at the tired bear and the man also rubs his own face, looking tired. A young boy pulls at the trousers of the man who is looking at the bear, to get his attention.
Newsreel titled 'US Demonstrates Latest Rockets'. United States soldiers fire rockets from a launcher. An airplane of the United States Army Air Force launches a rocket while in the sky. The rocket strikes and destroys its target in sea. A Rapid Fire launcher launches continued rockets. A landing craft of the United States Navy has rockets launched from its deck by rocket launchers.
The Selective Service System (SSS) in United States, its functioning and effects. Officials of selection boards and assembly of people selected for various services. Women workers busy working in an office. Map of United States shows distribution of SSS offices in various states, in New York and in Washington DC. A man discusses with his father various streams of work under different departments of Selective Service System. His mother arrives and talks to them.
Japanese Americans lower the United States flag at Poston War Relocation Center (internment camp) in Arizona, during World War II. They fold the flag carefully. Elevated view looking down on armored vehicles and tanks during a military parade in the United States. Nisei (second generation Japanese-American) U.S. Army soldiers of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team seen in training for combat operations, at a military base in the United States. Slate notes that their slogan is "Go For Broke" and quotes a soldier as saying, "We have more to fight for than you do. Of course, we fight for our country, America, but we are also out to redeem the name of our race." Japanese- American soldiers navigate an obstacle course in Army training.
A film titled 'Holiday Highlights: World marks Easter with prayer and fete’. Interdenominational Christian group offering prayers in California. Yosemite falls also seen. Large crowds gather at Hollywood Bowl (2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90068, United States) to offer prayers on Easter. Pope Paul VI addresses the people at St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. People enter St. Thomas Church (1 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019, United States) and St. Patrick's Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States) in New York to offer prayers.
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