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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
A soldier arrives at the U.S. Military District of Washington DC and reports to Fort Myer to join the U.S. Army.

A soldier (PFC Ed Griffiths) arrives in new assignment with the U.S. Army in Washington DC, United States. U.S. Army Sergeant Stuart Queen in his office. Military MATS C-131 (Convair 240) airliner in flight over Washington DC area with PFC Griffiths and other personnel aboard. Army personnel seated in the aircraft. The captain makes arrival announcements. Aerial view of the Washington Monument , the National Mall, Lincoln Memorial, and Potomac River and the Capitol. Military Air Transport Command C-131 parked and passengers descending stairs upon arrival in Washington, DC. They exit the Operations building and look for ground transportation to their destinations. Soldier gets into a taxi cab. He looks at the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Monument, across the Potomac River, as the cab drives, along the George Washington Parkway, past them. He arrives at the U.S. Army Military District of Washington Headquarters, at Fort Myer, and reports for his new assignment in Headquarters Company, U.S. Army. The Sergeant in charge introduces Sergeant Stuart Queen to the soldier. He is warmly welcomed.

Date: 1958
Duration: 4 min 3 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073531
A large Christmas tree loaded onto a trailer-truck at a transport yard in Washington DC, USA.

Exteriors of a railway yard near the WhiteHurst Freeway in Washington DC, USA. Sign on a trailer truck at the yard reads, 'The National Christmas Tree From South Dakota-To Washington DC'. A large Christmas tree is loaded from a rail car to a tractor trailer via a crane. Children and adults watch the loading operation. A mother watches with her two sons. View of the fir tree on the trailer. The loaded trailer leaves the yard.

Date: 1970, December
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675050416
United States President Hoover and new President-elect Franklin Roosevelt at the U.S. Capitol during 1933 inaugural ceremony

The inaugural ceremony for President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in Washington DC. The Air Express of the Universal Newspaper Newsreel prepares to take off from Washington DC for New York with sound pictures of the great event of the inaugural ceremony of the new President-elect Franklin Roosevelt. A man on the wings of the aircraft. A pilot gets into the aircraft. The aircraft takes off. The aircraft in flight over Washington DC. It lands in New York and the pilot waves from the cockpit. A motor carriage with a police escort arrives beside the aircraft to collect the sound pictures. Outgoing U.S. President Herbert Hoover and his wife come out from the White House and receive President-elect Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt with officials. Troops march along a road. President Hoover and the President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in a motor carriage move along the Pennsylvania Avenue to the U.S. Capitol (First St SE, Washington, DC 20004, United States). The United States flag on the front of the motor carriage. The Capitol building in Washington DC. The United States flag in view. A large crowd gathered around the Capitol. View of the dome of the Capitol. A flag on the dome. Franklin Roosevelt, President Hoover and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of U.S. and other officials prepare for the inaugural ceremony in a decorated area in the Capitol building. The officials behind the dignitaries look on. Franklin Roosevelt behind the podium. The Chief Justice administers the oath of office to Franklin Roosevelt making him the 32nd President of the United States. Franklin Roosevelt recites the oath of office.

Date: 1933, March 4
Duration: 3 min 0 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055028
American soldiers prepare to test a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun at a base in the U.S.A. during World War I

American soldiers in an Army passenger truck, ride into a field at an Army base in the United States, during World War 1. They step from the truck, remove boxes of ammunition, and a French M1914 Hotchkiss machine gun. They set up the machine gun and prepare to fire it. Scene shifts to closeup of a soldier back at the truck, opening its compartments and checking the contents.

Date: 1918
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675048408
Federal Triangle buildings in late 1940s, and Visitors at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

History of development of Washington, DC. Views of buildings and traffic in Washington DC. Federal Trade Commission building at intersection of Constitution Avenue and Independence Avenue. Late 1940s automobile traffic moves on streets of Washington DC. Views of the National Archives Building, Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Internal Revenue building (Internal Revenue Service or IRS). The Commerce Commission building. Visitors at the National Gallery of Art view the sculptures, decorative art and paintings, including sculpture of bust of Louise Brongniart by Jean-Antoine Houdon, and a painting by Edward Savage of George Washington and family viewing an early planning map of Washington DC.

Date: 1949
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073228