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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."

Location: Detroit Michigan USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 7 min 53 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675048193
U.S.Army Air Corps activities on Army Day 1939. U.S. Army P-36 and P-26 demonstrations. Boeing 247 aircraft in operation

Army Day demonstrations at Langley Field outside Hampton Virginia: A long line of U.S. Army Air Corps P-36 aircraft of the 8th Pursuit Group with engines running. Those closest to the camera display the logo of the 36th Pursuit Squadron "Flying Fiends." View of Langley Airfield tower and terminal buildings in background. The P-36s taxi out, one-by-one, for takeoff. Tail number of the first one is: PH-80. Flight of three perform a formation takeoff. Brief instant view of foreign officers in white uniforms standing with American airmen at Langley Field main terminal. View of radial engine running on a Boeing 247 aircraft. Men in truck loading cargo and baggage through open nose hatch of Boeing 247 aircraft. Airman closes and secures the nose hatch. View inside control tower. Operator gives pilot of Boeing 247 clearance to takeoff when ready. Scene changes to new setting and terrain. A Boeing 247 on takeoff roll with snow on the ground. Formations of Boeing P-26 airplanes in flight. Explosions below them in desert as they fly overhead. Two P-26s dive and drop bombs, respectively. Smoke rises from bomb explosions.

Location: Langley Field Virginia USA
Date: 1939, April 6
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675074459
African American student athletes compete in wrestling and boxing at Howard University in Washington DC, United States.

African American college students at Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Students gathered around a ring as two students compete in a wrestling match on campus (Howard University 2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). Scene switches to two students boxing in the same ring. Referee monitors the boxing match.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031588
African American college students work at laboratory in Howard University, Washington DC, United States.

African American students at Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Students sit and work on machines inside campus workshop (Howard University 2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). A white instructor oversees the students. Some students take readings on machines and others work on it. Machines in the background.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031589
Students at the Dentistry and Pharmacy Department at Howard University in Washington DC, United States.

Students at Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Woman walks with her three children inside a building. The sign board on top of the building reads 'Howard University Colleges of Dentistry and Pharmacy' (600 W St NW #2005, Washington, DC 20059, United States). A group of African American people moves inside the building. African American students work in the pharmacy laboratory. African American dentist examines the teeth of a child. Two dentists examine another child. African American University professor demonstrates the working of instrument to students. Young woman students observe through a microscope. Students perform the dissection of frogs.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 3 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031591
Student observes through a theodolite at Howard University in Washington DC, United States.

African American college students at Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Students stand and observe. Male African American students study surveying in front of the campus gate (Howard University 2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). Student observes through a surveying theodolite or transit, and another student sits holding a pole in front. Trees and buildings in the background.

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1939
Duration: 14 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031594
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