AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) symbol at the Union Industries Show in Louisville, Kentucky. IATSE (International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees) President Richard F Walsh addresses. IATSE banner on stage. Display at various stalls. Workers during construction of tradeshow floor and booths.
African American men wearing hats come down steps of the 2nd Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. A woman with two children. Pastor J T Hill greets congregation emerging from Second Baptist Church. An African American man stands at a building. President William J Clark of Virginia Union University talks with Pastor Hill.
Views of buildings of New York and Union Square. People on the roads and in the park as well. The Tammany Hall (City Hall Park, New York, NY 10007, United States) of New York City is shown. The hall holds a banner supporting the Democrat nominee for the Mayor of New York Royal S. Copeland. The banner also shows names of the democrat candidates for other posts. 1937.
A meeting of Pan American Nations delegates at the Pan American Union headquarters in Washington DC (soon after becoming the OAS or Organization of American States). National flags of various participant nations at a partially constructed building. Officials and dignitaries address the assembly. An official lays a stone in the building as part of the ceremony. Audience listens to the address of speakers. Near end of clip is a brief, unrelated segment with an early United States Air Force helicopter model, small with an open cockpit, being flown in front of a McDonnell Aircraft Corporation building.
A large group of well-dressed men and women at an event in a park in Chicago, Illinois. Many men wear straw boater hats and many women wear bonnets. Men and women working at sewing machines in a factory of Hart Shaffner & Marx men's clothiers in Chicago, Illinois. Successive closeups of two foremen and one worker, posing for the camera. Pay envelope for a person named Herscowitz in the seaming department. Card shows pay of $1.78 for 23 hours & 20 minutes work. Men working as cutters in garment factory. Young girls, an older man, and mature women working in the factory. Several young women walking arm in arm, ostensibly in protest. Closeups of several factory workers. Group of labor protestors led by women, walking in a city street. Many workers in a protest parade in the snow as spectators watch from sidewalks. Gathering of workers dissatisfied with their union leadership. One carries a sign reading: "Our so called leaders say strike settled. This demonstration is contrary to their claims."
Final attempts by Department of Justice, to deport International Longshoreman Union President Harry Bridges for labor organizing and alleged subversive activities. Film begins showing sign reading: "Department of Corrections,California State Prison, San Quentin." An automobile is seen driving toward the camera, out the gate of the prison. Guards open and close iron gates of the prison twice, as if for benefit of the camera. Distant view of front gates closed. Scene shifts to co-counsel of Harry Bridges legal defense team parking his car and stepping out carrying some legal papers. He walks to office at the entrance of San Quentin prison and speaks with guards. Scene shifts abruptly to Harry Bridges' lead defense attorney, Carol Weiss King, surrounded by reporters and others in the hall of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco. Next a car is seen driving down a ramp to enter the court building parking garage. Harry Bridges steps from the car and is escorted by two uniformed guards and other persons. They all enter an elevator. Camera focuses on a room identified as "Number 203, U.S. Marshal, Criminal Dep't." Two men come out and join others escorting Harry Bridgers in the Court building hall. Closeup of Bridgers as he passes the camera. Photographers are busy taking pictures. Officials thoroughly search Bridgers, and then they all enter a room.
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