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President of UMWA, John L. Lewis speaks about sufferings of mine workers at the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

President of the United Mine Workers of America(UMWA) John L. Lewis, addresses the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He describes the aftermath of various mining accidents including Centralia Illinois. He discusses the suffering of the mineworkers who face such accidents. He also talks about the physical injuries to the workers. Members of the Congress including Mr. Phil Murray, the vice-president listen to the words of Mr. Lewis.

Date: 1947, March
Duration: 4 min 6 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035915
Missile GB-4 carrying an Azon Bomb attached to an B-17 Bomber of the U.S. Air Force

A jeep towing missile GB-4 to a B-17 Bomber of the U.S. Air Force at a base. Air force men installing the missile beneath a wing on a wing rack of the plane. They attach the missile with the rack. Radar antenna of the missile. Airmen checks the control unit of the missile. (World War II period).

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675036009
Debacle at Garment Workers Convention in 1914 leads to formation of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America

United Garment workers (UGW) Union members discuss plan for 1914 convention in Nashville Tennessee. View from railroad locomotive traveling on a straight train track. A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train. Trainman on rail car waving a lantern. Views of the convention, October 12, 1914, in Nashville, headed by UGW President Thomas A. Rickert of Chicago. Labor union locals from New York, Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, were deemed in arrears on dues (although they had been on strike) and not allowed to participate. They walked out, with the Chicago delegation too. View of Telegram sent from Nashville, by the dissidents, to Sidney Hillman in New York, October, 1914, asking him to head a rival union. Photo of Hillman taking telephone call. A special convention at Webster Hall, in New York City, where dissidents join with Journeyman Tailors union and form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, with Sidney Hillman as President. Key members of the new union are seen standing in front of a car. Sidney Hillman in his office dictating to his secretary. Copies of the new union's House organs in various languages. Amalgamated Clothing Workers holding signs in various languages. Workers pose on a truck by a sign reading:"A Fair Deal, A Chance to Live, Arbitration is all we ask." Workers in cars. Girls on roller skates wearing sashes reading: "Don't Be A Scab." A man in a barrel with sign reading: "Can't afford to wear pants. Pa works in an open shop." Women pose in sandwich boards that spell out: "Closed Shop." Philadelphia garment worker ostensibly writing letter to Sidney Hillman. Shop owners examine sewn item and shop records while man works at sewing machine.

Date: 1914
Duration: 3 min 35 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036806
Men who led to rise of communism in Soviet Union

Sketches show an angry Nikita Khrushchev holding up his shoe at the United Nations, the Soviet hammer and sickle, and a map of the Soviet Union and various men who led to the rise and spread of Communism in Soviet Union. Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels,Vladimir Lenin,Trotsky. Czarist rule in Russia and the prisoners. Lenin,Stalin and Molotov.

Date: 1965
Duration: 5 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675038634
Demonstration of every step in moisture proofing and fungi proofing on Signal Corps Radio - 610 radio set.

Lined up members of fungi and moisture proofing team standing near repair truck. View inside the truck. Team members enter the locker room where Signal Corps Radio-610 (SCR - 610) radio sets are kept. equipment are treated by way of cleaning, drying and spraying. Members of proofing team works on assembly line procedures used for handling many units at one time. View of treated and untreated piece of wires.

Date: 1944
Duration: 11 min 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039092
Eleanor Roosevelt (widow of President Franklin D. Roosevelt) and U.S. Stateswoman, on a television interview.

A television program 'Longines Chronoscope'. Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. stateswoman, interviewed by Edward P Morgan and Bill Downs. Attitudes of foreigners toward Americans. Criticism of American policy. She further talks about organization like United Nations. She speaks about America's position regarding India and Korean peace conference.

Date: 1953
Duration: 9 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040251