- Title: VM-216
- Summary: JOHN L. LEWIS: STORY OF JOHN L. LEWIS, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED MINE WORKERS, DURING THE KEY PERIOD OF LABOR, 1920-1960. EMPLOYING AGGRESSIVE STRIKE TACTICS TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF THE MINERS. DRAMATIC CONFLICTS WITH MINE OWNERS, AFL, COURTS & GOVERNMENT. EARLY HISTORY OF ORGANIZED LABOR MOVEMENT IN AMERICA
- Description:00:00:03 - CITY STREET SCENES, CIRCA 1920s. COAL MINERS 00:00:16 - LINE OF MINERS GOING INTO MINE. CARRYING BUCKETS, BRINGING HORSES INTO MINES. BOSS WRITING DOWN AS MEN GO INTO MINES. 00:00:39 - POV MOVING DOWN MINE. MEN WORKING: PICKS HACKING, DIGGING SHOVEL, HAULING. HELMETS WITH LIGHTS 00:00:59 - COAL MINER LIGHTS CIGARETTE FROM LIGHT ON MINING CAP. 00:01:08 - SHOVELING BIG CHUNKS OF COAL INTO MINE TRAIN 00:01:15 - MULE PULLING COAL CAR THROUGH MINES. 00:01:23 - MONTAGE MINERS AT WORK 00:01:33 - WALLS COLLAPSING IN MINE ACCIDENT 00:01:41 - ABOVE, ON GROUND, SIREN SOUNDS 00:01:45 - PANS LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR NEWS OF TRAPPED MINERS. FAMILIES OF MEN STUCK IN MINE 00:02:10 - AMBULANCE WAITS FOR CASUALTIES. 00:02:13 - BRINGING OUT HURT MEN ON STRETCHERS. CROWD OF CURIOUS ONLOOKERS TRY TO SEE INJURED MAN PUT IN AMBULANCE. 00:02:33 - HORSE-DRAWN AMBULANCE PULLS AWAY FROM ACCIDENT SITE. OTHERS FOLLOW. 00:02:43 - MEN STAND ON WAREHOUSE PORCH. SIMPLE WHITE CROSSES LEANING UP 00:02:51 - HORSE-DRAWN HEARSE. FUNERAL CORTEGE FOR MINERS LOST IN ACCIDENT 00:03:04 - MONTAGE JOHN L. LEWIS 00:03:31 - MAY 1920: ORGANIZERS SENT TO COAL FIELDS TO EDUCATE MINERS ON STRIKING. PAN MINERS, YOUNG BOYS. INCITING STRIKE. 00:04:01 - SIREN SOUNDS. MEN WALK INTO MINES WITH BUCKETS 00:04:10 - LONG LINE OF STRIKING MINERS WAITING 00:04:27 - ROW OF MINERS SHANTIES-SHACKS-HOUSES 00:04:30 - WHOLE FAMILY SLEEPING IN BED. 00:04:35 - STRIKING MINER & FAMILY KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOME. RUTHLESS MEN THROWING FAMILY'S POSSESSIONS OUT OF HOUSE: MATTRESSES, CHAIRS 00:04:55 - TENT CITY: HUGE TABLE OF CHILDREN BEING FED. EATING SOUP, BREAD. 00:05:10 - PAN ROW MEN IN SUITS CARRYING GUNS, PATROLLING. KEEPING ORDER THEMSELVES. 00:05:24 - PAN CLOSED-DOWN MINES, EMPTY COAL CARS. EERILY QUIET 00:05:37 - ARMY BROUGHT IN TO UNARM STRIKING MINERS. CU MEN PUTTING GUNS INTO BIG PILE. CU PILES OF GUNS 00:06:11 - PAN STRIKING MINER CAMP. BARBED WIRE SURROUNDS IT. ARMED GUARD PACES. MEN STARE AT CAMERA FROM BEHIND FENCE 00:06:26 - CU LEWIS & MURRAY 00:06:34 - LEWIS, AS PRESIDENT OF UMW, MEETING WITH OWNERS OF MINES 00:06:46 - PAN UNION MINERS SHANTY TOWN. DEPRESSED PEOPLE SITTING AROUND IDLE 00:07:03 - WHITE HOUSE, CIRCA 1933. 00:07:09 - FDR GIVES RECOVERY ACT SPEECH. NRA 00:07:44 - LEWIS, AFL'S WILLIAM GREENE, SECRETARY OF LABOR FRANCIS PERKINS. 00:08:13 - LEWIS GIVING SPEECH ON HOW CONGRESS SHOULD ADOPT PRESIDENT'S SUGGESTIONS. 00:08:35 - STEEL WORKERS: FORGING, HEATING, BUILDING CARS. AUTO INDUSTRY 00:08:52 - LARGE GROUP OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS LEAVING WORK. CIO MEN HAND OUT PAMPHLETS-LEAFLETS TO WORKERS. 00:09:14 - AUTOMOBILE WORKERS AT OUTDOOR MEETING. MEGAPHONE VOICE AUDIBLE. ADVISING MEN TO JOIN LABOR ORGANIZATIONS. 00:09:24 - CU ENTRANCE TO UAW-CIO 00:09:26 - CU WORKERS SIGNING, VOTING FOR UNION 00:09:32 - WORKERS PUNCHING TIME CLOCK. GOING TO WORK IN AUTO BODY PLANT. 00:09:43 - IDLE AUTO ASSEMBLY LINE. 00:09:53 - AUTO WORKERS STAGE SIT-DOWN AT WORK. PASSING TIME PLAYING CHESS, READING NEWSPAPERS. 00:10:12 - RIOT IN STREETS. BREAKING WINDOWS OF PLANT. TEAR GAS. 00:10:25 - PICKETERS GANG UP ON MAN & BEAT HIM BADLY 00:10:42 - GROUP OF MEN IN SUITS (OFFICIALS MOBSTERS) WALK DOWN MIDDLE OF STREET. STRIKE BREAKERS 00:10:46 - CU HOMER MARTIN, HEAD OF UAW 00:10:50 - LEWIS GIVES SPEECH 00:11:27 - CADILLAC SQUARE: MASS GROUP SINGS. CELEBRATES IN ANTICIPATION OF WINNING. SONG ABOUT "SIGNING ON THE DOTTED LINE". PLACARDS. 00:11:56 - FEBRUARY 11: GOVENOR MURPHY WATCHES KNUDSEN FROM GENERAL MOTORS SIGNING AGREEMENT 00:12:08 - CU PEOPLE'S FEET WALKING 00:12:15 - TANK ARTILLERY MANUFACTURING. MONTAGE MACHINES, MEN WORKING, DEFENSE INDUSTRY. AIRPLANES. 00:12:52 - COAL MINERS COMING OUT OF MINE ON MINE CARS 00:13:08 - MINERS LEAVING FROM WORK ON FOOT. BUCKETS IN HAND, FILTHY DIRTY. BITUMINOUS COAL MINERS, SICK 00:13:29 - 1941 LEWIS GIVES SPEECH: "WE'RE AFRAID TO GO TO WORK". ANGRY & ARTICULATE 00:14:59 - CU WHITE HOUSE 00:15:05 - CU PAN STEEL EXECUTIVES 00:15:13 - LEWIS ARRIVES WITH MYRON TAYLOR, FORMER STEEL EXEC. 00:15:27 - LEWIS COMMENTS ON IF SOLDIERS COME TO MINES. 00:15:47 - LHS MINING PLANT 00:15:52 - MONTAGE MINERS STRIKING: PLAYING CARDS, PASSING TIME WHILE ON STRIKE. 00:16:06 - TWO MINERS CARRYING RIFLES WALK WITH DOGS IN WOODS. GOING HUNTING 00:16:16 - WHITE HOUSE 00:16:22 - LEWIS SIGNING GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT 00:16:44 - CU CALENDAR PAGE: DECEMBER 7, 1941. 00:16:49 - LABOR MEETING 00:17:10 - NEWSCASTER, NARRATOR TALKING HEAD 00:17:57 - MINER GOING OFF TO WORK. WIFE & SMALL CHILD WAVE FROM PORCH 00:18:03 - MINERS WALKING TO WORK 00:18:13 - CU MINERS GOING DOWN IN ELEVATOR. 00:18:18 - MINERS ON COAL TRAINS 00:18:28 - MINERS WALKING INTO MINE 00:18:34 - MINERS ROLL COAL CAR INTO MINE 00:18:39 - HUGE VIOLENT UNDERGROUND EXPLOSION. HUGE BALL OF FIRE. MINING ACCIDENT ON MARCH 25TH IN CENTRALIA, ILLINOIS. 00:18:53 - FAMILIES, CURIOUS ONLOOKERS, WORKERS WAIT ABOVE GROUND FOR KILLED-HURT MINERS TO BE BROUGHT TO SURFACE. RED CROSS. SNOWING HARD. DEAD, CASUALTIES. 111 KILLED BY MASSIVE EXPLOSION. 00:19:22 - CU WIDOWS & CHILDREN-ORPHANS 00:19:29 - LEWIS MEETING GOVERNMENT ASKING FOR MEMORIAL HOLIDAY FOR KILLED MINERS. CU CONGRESSMAN RICAHRD NIXON 00:19:50 - LEWIS SPEAKS OUT FOR MINERS 00:20:39 - PHOTOGRAPHERS TAKING PICTURES 00:20:42 - LEWIS & OTHERS LEAVING MEETING. 00:20:53 - HUGE GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHERS PUSHING 00:20:57 - BIG 1940s CAR TAKES LEWIS AWAY 00:21:00 - MINERS AT WORK. GOING INTO MINE IN TRAIN CAR 00:21:17 - LABOR PARADE-MARCH. PLACARDS. ORGANIZED LABOR AGAINST TAFT-HARTLEY BILL. 00:21:31 - LEWIS ON BEHALF OF UMA SPEAKS TO CONGRESS ON MINE SAFETY 00:22:16 - BACK & FORTH BANTER IN CONGRESS 00:22:59 - INSIDE MINE, MACHINES DOING WORK MEN USED TO. CU CHUNKS OF COAL, IN TRAINS, 00:23:34 - MINER'S FAMILY. KISSES WIFE GOODBYE, HOLDING BABY. CU ALL-AMERICAN BABY
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-216