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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.
American Civilian Conservation Corps work in fields and destroy pests as part of conservation work in the United States.
Forest Conservation Work in the United States. Man looks through binoculars. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps providing work during great depression) men work in field. Tractor on the field. Two workers atop a tower. Dead trees being cleared from the forest. Workers fell dead trees and cut wood. Civilian Conservation Corps destroy tent caterpillars by burning their tent nests, and fight grasshoppers and pests that destroy meadows by spreading poison bran by the handful.
Church, home, town, and coal mining scenes, and Roscoe Holcomb singing in a poverty stricken area of Kentucky.
'The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music' explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Shows how the poverty-stricken people maintain their traditions and dignity through their music. A religious evangelical church congregation gathered by a river under railway tracks for a ceremony. Men, women and children among the crowd. The church preacher sings gospel while wading in the water. The congregation joins in. A Christian baptism ceremony, possibly pentecostal or charismatic, takes place as a women is immersed in the river. Several women jumping and flailing in celebration. Sound of rail cars filled with coal moving on tracks. Coal Miners seated in mine cars at a coal mine. People sit outside a building on a street. Cars pass by. The men talk. DAISY, Kentucky: An old house amidst wooded mountains. Hens around the house. Roscoe Holcomb, an unemployed construction worker in Hazard, Kentucky, on a swing at the house. A spider in a large web at the house. Holcomb plays the banjo and sings 'Across the Rocky Mountain'. Clothes hang on the wall by a bed inside the house. A bed side table between twin beds, a lamp in the window, a banjo, wardrobe, and clothes by the window. A single stalk of corn. Clouds over the mountains. Miners at work. They carry small boxes. Coal Miners seated in a coal mine car as it enters a tunnel. Light of the car as it disappears into the tunnel.
War veterans being provided employment under the financial rehabilitation benefits provided by the veterans administration, U.S.
United States Veterans Administration's role for the war veterans of World War II. An enactment shows Veterans administrations role in terms of physical and financial rehabilitation of war veterans. A service disabled war veteran being provided technical training to enable him to get a job. War veterans being imparted technical training. A war veteran meets a vocational guidance officer. The officer guides him about the jobs he can take up and puts him through a series of scientific tests. A blind ex- Sargent in his gift shop set up by veterans administrations help under financial rehabilitation measures. A veteran in his home purchased under the financial rehabilitation benefits provided by the veterans administration.
Berea graduates are trained and Albert G. Weidler helps the students to make decisions at the Berea College, United States.
Vocational training at the Berea College in United States. Berea graduates are trained for the future, practical training is provided for a position of responsibility. They earn while they learn and can avail of labor department placements. Students at labor department. Albert G. Weidler, Dean of Labor, assists new comers to make decisions.
Farmer cuts grass using a scythe and cradle at a field in Kentucky, United States.
Farm life in Kentucky, USA. A farmer inspects a Scythe and Cradle in his hands at a field in Kentucky, United States. The farmer cuts grass with the scythe and cradle. Other farmers make bunch of grass. Farmers have others tools in their hands like scythes and forks in their hands. A farm house in the background.
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