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The 1937 Memorial Day massacre of strikers in Chicago Illinois, United States
Approximately a thousand striking steel workers (and members of their families) are seen assembled on an open field, intent on picketing the Republic Steel Mill in South Chicago, where they are organizing a union. Many hold picket signs during the labor strike. A line of armed Chicago policemen extends across the area, blocking their way. Police officials stand near a paddy wagon. View of strikers standing toe-to-toe arguing with policemen. The next scene shows violence with gunfire erupting and the strikers running away from the police. Gunfire continues as the crowd disperses in panic. Policemen follow the fleeing crowd and continue firing their weapons and beating strikers with night sticks. Several Plumes of tear gas can be seen rising from the ground. Several injured strikers are seen on the ground. One appears to be dead. Dust and fumes obscure much of the scene. As the air clears, police can be seen continuing to pursue the retreating group of strikers. They arrest a black striker. Dead and injured strikers are seen on the ground. Police arrest strikers, some of whom are injured, and place them in paddy wagons. Police drag the body of one fallen striker from behind a wagon. Several strikers gather around the body. Police continue to arrest people, including a woman. Policemen watch as strikers place body of fallen striker into back seat of a car.
Marshals seize produce with unusually high amount of pesticide; farmers treat fields and orchards with pesticides in the United States
A combine harvesting wheat in the United States. Workers picking peaches from an orchard. A ‘Fruit Growers Express’ train transporting produce. Trucks carrying fruits driving in highway. A Union Pacific train leaves a train station. Grain is processed by a machine. A barge sails past a flour milling plant. A Western Fruit Express wagon stands beside rail tracks. Sign in car front window reads “Deputy U.S. Marshal”. Marshal attaches a “Monition” notice to the seized Western Fruit Express wagon. A man offloads crates of produce seized by the United States Marshal. Two farmers discover an infestation of caterpillars in their fields. The farmers inspect leaves from their infested crops. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspector examines produce from a seized wagon. The FDA inspector carries samples taken from seized produce. The FDA inspector writes on the paper bag containing samples and seals the bag with tape. An African American scientist examines samples of produce for illegal pesticide content. A syringe is inserted into a machine for chemical analysis. An FDA District Director makes a call from his office. A General Counsel speaks to an FDA District Director over the phone. A United States District Court arrest warrant against seized illegal produce. A judge signs the arrest warrant and hands it over to a marshal. A farmer drives a tractor and parks in front of a shed. A farmer looks at pesticides inside the shed. The farmer grabs a pack of pesticide and placed it at the back of the tractor. Farmer drives a tractor sprayer to treat pesticide on a field. Sacks of pesticide inside a shed. Camera zooms into a pesticide sack to show warning that reads “DO NOT USE WITHIN 10-DAYS OF HARVEST’. United States marshals seize produce from a Great Northern Railway cargo. The seized cargo is buried in a landfill. United States Marshals oversees the destruction of seized produce. A bulldozer covers the produced with rubble and soil. Animation depicting a caterpillar and various bugs superimposed over farm pests and crops. A praying mantis feeds on a bug. A farmer wearing protective gear drives a tractor sprayer in orchard. Children running out from school. Farmers harvesting carrots. Tractor plowing to expose pests. A farmer releases wasps to control pests. A farmer breeding resistant variety crops. A farmer prepares pesticide inside a shed. An old weighing scale tilting. Farmer opens hose to fill water into the tank of a sprayer. The farmer pours pesticide powder into sprayer. Sprayer treats orchard with pesticide.
Judge Louis E. Goodman dismisses Justice Department's civil action to denaturalize ILWU President, Harry Bridgers.
Opening scene shows dimly lit hallway of Federal District Court building in San Francisco. Camera focuses on a courtroom door inscribed as " U.S. District Court, 258, Louis E. Goodman." Officials are seen escorting International Longshoreman's Union (ILWU) President, Harry Bridgers, along a hallway, accompanied by many photographers. Bridger's lawyer, Carol Weiss King and her co-counsel, wearing dark rimmed glasses, are seen standing in the hallway. Closeup of them. He holds up a copy of legal papers. View from further down the hall as Bridgers stops briefly to converse with them. Another closeup of Bridger's lawyers. (Note: Harry Bridgers was prosecuted for his labor organizing and supposed subversive status by the Justice Department in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with the goal of deportation. This was never achieved. Bridges became a naturalized citizen in 1945. A final effort by the Justice Dept. to deport Bridges ended in 1955 when Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the department's civil action to denaturalize him)
People protest under the banner of New York State Communist Party in New York; anti-communist protestors engage them
People carrying flags and banners during a Communist Party demonstration march in New York City. Workers march carrying various signs, including: "Fur workers demand a better union contract", and "Furriers Women's Community". Other signs include: "Defend the Twelve," and "Save Willie McGee" (African American convict accused of raping a white woman), and "Repeal McCarran Law", and "Willie McGee shall not die". Anti-Communist crowd on sides of street yells at protestors and taunts them. Crowd suddenly surges as a fight breaks out on a street corner. Police break up the fight. The protestors are marching under the auspices of New York State Communist Party in New York, United States. More shots of onlookers yelling at demonstrators and jeering, as they stand in front of a Newman's 5 and 10 cent store. Horse mounted police restrain crowd yelling and pushing toward the marching demonstrators. More marchers and a sign "Art students for peace." Some people march with American flags in their hands.
Howard Hughes flies a Northrup Gamma airplane from Chicago to Los Angeles in less than half a day
A newsreel titled 'Lunches in Chi. Hops to L.A. For his dinner.' Howard Hughes, famed industrialist and aviator, is seen dressed in a suit and tie, seated in a Chicago restaurant having lunch. He finishes and leaves. The next scene shows nose of a Northrop Gamma 2G airplane with engine running. A brief glimpse of Hughes,still in suit and tie, wearing leather flying helmet with goggles pushed up on his forehead. With Hughes piloting, the airplane taxis and takes off from Chicago. It is seen in a gentle left bank as it departs. Later, Hughes is seen landing at Union Air Terminal in Burbank, California. Hughes is seen in opened cockpit as he taxis in to the parking ramp. He taxis past a Stinson hangar, parks, and climbs down from the aircraft. He is accompanied by a number of men as he walks across the parking ramp. (Note: Howard Hughes is flying a modified Gamma 2G airplane, number NC13761,that he leased from famous woman aviator, Jacqueline Cochran, who ordered it powered by a liquid-cooled 700-hp Curtiss Conqueror engine,driving a two-blade propeller. Hughes modified it with a 1000-hp Wright SR-1820-G2 radial engine, driving a three-blade constant speed propeller, and used it to set a new transcontinental nonstop record, flying from Burbank, California to Newark, New Jersey in 9 hours 26 minutes 10 seconds with an average speed of 259 mph, on 13-14 January 1936. The flight shown here set a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California.)
Senator Robert Taft speaks about provisions of the Labor-Management Relations Act
Ohio Senator Robert Taft speaks about the Labor-Management Relations Act, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act. He talks about justice and equality in labor management relations. Further he speaks about provisions of the act regarding employer's relation with Labor Union Leaders and protection of workers to take part in strikes.
