Westland Mine coal mine workers, wearing helmets with lights, are gathered in a room as they listen to a radio news broadcast in a local office of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, in Washington County, Pennsylvania. On December 7, 1946, United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to the labor strike by 400,000 coal miners that he had called on November 20, 1946. Maps of Westland mines No. 1 and 2 are among many that line the walls of the office. The mine workers look at a notice of the Government takeover ordered by the Secretary of the Interior, and a notice to their union, The United Mine Workers of America. Coal miners check their personal equipment in preparation for entering mines, with the strike now ended.
Employees occupy plant in sit-down (or sit-in) labor strike in the South Bend, Indiana. Men and women workers sit idly at their machines in the Bendix Brake Products factory. Aerial views of factory. Exteriors of a building with workers milling around. Workers refuse to leave the plant at all while their organization demands the dissolution of a company union. People deliver food and supplies to workers, passing the goods through open windows. A striking worker holds his daughter who has been brought for a visit.
Speeches held during May Day demonstrations in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese laborers, agrarians and white collar workers gather and listen to a speaker in the Imperial Park. The speaker on a makeshift stand is Mr. Kenichi Ito, Kanto District Trade Union. People listen to the speaker. A group of girls with red bandanas on their head. A group of people sit on the ground and listen to the speaker. Red Cross Japanese nurses. Another speaker is Mr. Yoshira II, a congressman representing the Socialists party. A Communist congressman speaks to the group of workers.
Japanese people in front of the gates of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan to bid the Shōwa Emperor a Happy New Year. The front of the Palace Gate shows Japanese people bowing. Dai-Ichi Building (Dn Tower 21, 1 Chome-13-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda City, Tokyo 100-0006, Japan) in the background. A Japanese family bows in union. Before they bow, coats and hats are removed and laid under the arm. A family of two children and their parents line up and bow. The children are dressed in kimonos. Several girls line up and bow. Three girls walk along a road. A family comprising of a mother, two small children and a boy in a student's clothes take off their coats and bow together. Two women pray and bow. Grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
First Lord of the British Admiralty Sir Eric Geddes visits the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland towards the end of World War I.. Sir Eric Geddes arrives at Union Station of Washington DC. British Admiral Alexander Duff, U.S. Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels, U.S. Navy Admiral W.S. Benson and A. H. Robertson arrive at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. U.S. Navy Admiral Edward Walter Eberle stands in front of the pillars of the building. The group of British and U.S. Navy officers tour the Naval Academy.
Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) disembark at Apra Harbor in Guam, Mariana Islands during World War II. USS Tranquillity (AH-14) enters the harbor to dock. It comes alongside the dock. The stern of the ship displays its name. The Union Jack flies from a jackstaff. Three nurses stand at the rail of the main deck aboard the ship. A gangway as landing stages are placed aboard USS Tranquillity. Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) disembark from the ship. Hospital corpsmen carry stretcher cases along the dock. Ambulances backed up to the gangway ladder on the dock as the hospital corpsmen place stretcher cases in the ambulances.
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