- Title: F-9700
- Summary: A MIGHTY FINE UNION: UNITED RUBBER WORKERS. TIRE MANUFACTURER. ILLUSTRATES ORGANIZATION, STRUCTURE, AND FUNCTIONS OF A MAJOR LABOR UNION THROUGH A DRAMATIZED PRESENTATION OF THE ACTIVITIES OF THE MEMBERS OF ONE LOCAL IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR WORK IN NEGOTIATION, IN PROTECTING THE RIGHTS OF THEIR MEMBERS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PROCEDURES USED IN A LOCAL UNION ELECTION. THE UNION SHOWN IS THE UNITED RUBBER, CORK, LINOLEUM, AND PLASTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA. AFL-CIO, WHICH NOW NUMBERS IN ITS MEMBERSHIP MORE THAN 400 LOCALS.
- Description:00:00:13 - FACTORY SMOKE STACKS 00:00:23 - FACTORY WORKERS LEAVING WORK 00:00:28 - MAN WORKING LATE AT OFFICE, BLUE COLLAR WORKERS RUBBER MANUFACTURING. TIRES 00:03:30 - WHITE COLLAR WORKERS IN OFFICE. BUSINESSMAN BRINGS SECRETARY PAPERS LEANING OVER HER DESK 00:03:42 - BALDING BUSINESSMAN USING ADDING MACHINE TALLYING FIGURES. ACCOUNTANT. 00:03:52 - LAWYER IN HIS OFFICE TURNS AROUND AT HIS DESK, SELECTS LAW BOOK FROM BOOKSHELF 00:04:02 - PUBLIC RELATIONS WORKER HANGING NEWSPAPER CLIPS ON BULLETIN BOARD. UNITED RUBBER WORKER PAPER 00:04:18 - UNITED RUBBER WORKERS CONVENTION, DELEGATES ENTERING CONVENTION HALL. UNION WORKERS. L. S. BUCKMASTER SPEAKS AT MICROPHONE. MEN SMOKING, UNION WORKERS VOTING 00:06:42 - WORKERS ENTERING LOCAL UNION HALL. WORKER LOOKS AT PAPER POSTED ON BULLETIN BOARD FOR UNION VOTE. BAILEY & SPENCE FOR UNION OFFICES 00:07:05 - SECRETARY OPENS OFFICE DOOR, LETS BOOS KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS. 00:07:17 - UNION MEMBER WITH ITALIAN ACCENT TALKING TO UNION PRESIDENT, CAN'T WORK ANYMORE, HEART ATTACK SICK PAY. BOSS TELLS HIM TO APPLY FOR DISABILITY PENSION. 00:08:08 - BUSY UNION PRESIDENT KEEPS BEING INTERRUPTED, DOOR OPENS AGAIN, BOSS LOOKS AT WATCH, HAS TO CUT OFF MEETING 00:08:26 - PLANT WORKERS WAIT PATIENTLY FOR PLANT BOSS BOSS ENTERS BUILDING THROUGH REVOLVING DOOR, HAS AN ARGUMENT WITH WORKER IN PUBLIC. VOICES GET LOUDER, BOSS YELLING AT WORKER. THEY GET ON ELEVATOR, WORKER APOLOGIES, PATS BOSS ON THE ARM 00:09:43 - AWKWARD SITUATION, ELEVATOR OPERATOR ASKS "FLOOR PLEASE", PEOPLE IN ELEVATOR HAVE TO WAIT, TWO MEN ARGUE ON ELEVATOR. ELEVATOR DOORS CLOSE 00:10:00 - UNION MEETING. ANGRY UNION WORKERS AT UNION MEETING. DISCUSSING POLICIES. MAN GETTING HOT UNDER THE COLLAR LOOSENS HIS TIE 00:12:27 - BUSINESSMAN ENTERS HIS DARK OFFICE, TURNS ON THE LIGHT, LOOKS EXHAUSTED, LOOSENS HIS TIE, TAKES NOTES FROM SPINDLE, READS MESSAGES. PICKS UP THE TELEPHONE, DIALS NUMBER, TALKING ON TELEPHONE DRINKING COFFEE FROM TAKE OUT CUP. MAN ENTERS HIS OFFICE, SITS ON SIDE OF DESK. LIGHTS CIGARETTE DISCUSS UNION MATTERS 00:15:49 - UNION MEMBERS ARGUE IN MEETING SMOKE FILLED ROOM 00:16:46 - UNION MEMBER TALKS TO ANOTHER. MAN BUYING SODA FROM VENDING MACHINE, OPENS BOTTLE ON MACHINE. CONFRONTS BOSS. ANGRY UNION WORKER. POKES FINGER IN BOSS'S CHEST. THREATENS UNION PRESIDENT 00:18:09 - OFFICE WORKER OPERATES OLD COPIER MACHINE. RUNNING OFF COPIES OF UNION BALLOTS. 00:18:38 - 1960s UNION MEETING. BANGS GAVEL TO GET WORKER'S ATTENTION 00:19:13 - TIRED LOOKING UNION HEADS IN NEGOTIATION MEETING ONE MAN MAKES SUGGESTION, OTHER HUDDLE & WHISPER 00:20:05 - MAN PACING BACK & FORTH IN FRONT OF GLASS DOORS IN HALLWAY. LOOKS AT HIS WATCH AS BOSSES FINALLY ARRIVE AT MEETING. TRIES TO TALK HIM INTO CHANGING A VOTE. LAUGHS AT IDLE THREAT 00:21:01 - CU 1960s COCA COLA VENDING MACHINE 00:21:02 - UNION MEMBERS IN MEETING, DISCUSSIONS. MEMBER SPEAKS AGAINST COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION. STICKS UP FOR WORKER WHO WAS FIRED. MILITANT ANGRY SPEAKER. UNION MEMBERS APPLAUD AFTER HIS SPEECH. ANOTHER SPEAKER GIVES OPPOSING OPINION. CU MAN LIGHTS CIGARETTE. UNION PRESIDENT SPEAKS ALSO 00:24:57 - UNION MEMBERS VOTING RAISING HANDS. CASE DEFEATED, GOES TO ARBITRATION. MOTION TO ADJOURN MEETING 00:25:37 - CU OLD MAN OPERATING 16MM FILM PROJECTOR. CLICHE "HIT THE LIGHTS, JOE" 00:25:51 - UNION WORKERS WATCH FILM OF A PLANT STRIKE. STRIKERS. PICKET LINE. CU MEMBER WHISPERING TO ANOTHER DURING MEETING. HE WAS THERE, GIVING HIM SPECIFICS OF THE STRIKE. UNION GREW OUT OF THE STRIKE. MILITANT UNION SPEAKER ADMITS "YEAH I GUESS WE DO TAKE A LOT FOR GRANTED TODAY" 00:27:36 - UNION WORKERS VOTING. CU HANDS PUTTING PAPER BALLOTS IN BALLOT BOX. CU TALLYING VOTES BY HAND ON PAPER. BAILEY AND SPENCE NECK-IN-NECK IN ELECTIONS 00:28:09 - UNION PARTY, CAFETERIA. APPLAUD WINNERS WHEN THEY ARRIVE. UNION PRESIDENT GIVES SPEECH STANDING ON CHAIR. MEMBERS LISTEN. APPLAUD WHEN FINISHED
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1967
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: F-9700