Employees of the Aricraft Hosiery mill on strike in Philadelphia. Employees of the plant clash with the police. Police arrest several employees. Police take the arrested employees in a Police van away from the labor dispute.
Remaining and salvage parts of submarines at Philadelphia Naval shipyard. Man welding. Weighing of a broken submarine part. Submarine parts are hoisted from one point to another at shipyard.
Telescope mounting structure shown inside hangar. Albert Einstein looks at scale model of finished telescope. Einstein and men in the background. Audience seated. Einstein looks on other side as official talks to him.
President Dwight Eisenhower during his illness. The President on wheelchair followed by few nurses in Denver. Crowds lines up street as he returns to his home in Gettysburg from Denver. Crowd waves flags lined up on sidewalks to welcome Eisenhower. Eisenhower walks into a building accompanied by other officials. Eisenhower seated with other officials around table.
William Penn Way, in the center of Pittsburgh, is jammed with women preparing to participate in the 4th Liberty Loan Drive in that city. Sign for a business establishment, named Thompson's, is seen. In another scene a banner identfying the Naval Recruiting Station, hangs above the crowd. A view looking down from a building overlooking the scene, shows women seated at long tables streching across the street, from curb to curb, for a so-called "Trench Breakfast." Other women move between the lines of tables, to serve. After the breakfast, several speakers stand on the tables and deliver motivating talks to the women, Among those seen are a U.S. Navy Commander; U.S. Army Captain, Walter Richard Flannery (who was decorated with fhe Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in the Battle of the Marne); Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels; and Alexander P. Moore, Publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Leader newspaper. Change of scene shows dense crowd filling street. Bunting decorates some areas and garlands hang high above the crowd, stretched from buildings on one side of the street to the other.e. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Large crowd of delegates gathered in Convention Hall, Philadelphia, for the Democratic National Convention. Many carry several signs in support of Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) as nominee for a second term as President. Some of the banners and signs read, 'Colorado Vote For Roosevelt', 'Minnesota Vote for Roosevelt', 'Young Democratic Club', and other banners. Crowd cheers and sound of band playing can be listened in the background.