Occupational training for recovering and disabled U.S. soldiers in the United States after World War 1. Exterior of a building. A vehicle driving past on a street. Trainees in an automobile shop. Man with crutch under arm fixes an electrical outlet. Veterans participate in a orchestra and band rehearsal. Other men working. They install electrical wiring in a building under construction.
Vocational school instruction for young men in the United States. Instructor issues instructions by phone to a boy, wearing a headset, who operates electrical switches on a switchboard or circuit board, in response. Two boys wearing headsets, sitting at table holding what appear to be interlinked radio components. One boy manipulates dials, as if tuning the radio. Camera pans the right where components including what appear to be stacked capacitors are being activated. A young man using a telegraph key or morse code key to transmit a message. Boys in a machine shop or factory where machines are belt-driven from a common drive shaft overhead (out of sight). Closeup of one boy turning a metal part on a lathe. He makes measurement with calipers as the work progresses.
Coal mining in the United States. Miners operate a manual coal drill. They use picks and crowbars to break coal from a coal seam. The miners load coal cars with hand shovels. They ride the loaded coal cars. A miner shoes a mule. A powerful steel cable hauls the cars to the surface. Loaded coal cars raised to the top of the elevator. They are emptied into a chute.
Coal washeries in the United States. Exterior of a surface plant. Workers walking outside the plant. Aerial view of the plant. An artificial lake constructed to supply water to the washery. Men walking on the shore of the lake. Interior of the plant. Coal brought from a mine is deposited in large storage bins from which it is carried on conveyor belts to be washed. The processing of coal in a jig to separate slate and sulphur. Battery of jigs in operation. Men working in the plant. A concentrating table washing fine coal. Bucket elevators raising the washed coal, water running out from the conveyor. A thickener is used for the recovery of fine coal. The fine coal is deposited to the bottom from where it is drawn through, allowing the water to overrun the top to be clarified and reused. A car at the washery carrying waste material to dump the pile.
A film titled: 'When a man's a miner' dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. View of the coal fields called Tippleville. Houses along the sides of a street. A banner on a building reads: 'Troy's Pocket Billiards'. Men standing outside the building and talking. One of the man is Spike Sherman, who is a motorman in a mine. Dick Kincaid and his sister Mary Kincaid arrive near the building. Men talking about the girl. A man asks Spike why he was jealous of Lucky Burns if he was not crazy about the girl. The men argue and fight.
A film dramatizes the use of safety instruction in coal mines in the United States. The Tippleville coal mine. Interior of a house. Mary Kincaid in the house. Lucky Burns arrives and talks to her. He proposes to her. Mary rejects the proposal. Lucky says that Mary's brother Dick Kincaid is earning enough money to take care of himself and her mother. So she should not refuse his proposal for any reason. She replies that she could never be happy with a man who is always taking chances. She says this as Lucky has denied to take safety lessons in the mine and has also said that the most of the course is taught by fellows who never worked in a mine. Dick arrives and asks them to have food. Mary further says that her mother has suffered a lot as her father was like Lucky and always took chances. She recalls the incidence. Her father was working in the mine with other miner. The miner warned her father of a loose piece of rock over him. Her father replied that the rock wouldn't fall and he would take it down when the car is loaded. The rock suddenly falls over her father. She says that her father was killed and then her mother had to suffer a lot afterwards.
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