- Title: VM-216
- Summary: LABOR COMES OF AGE: SURVEYS STRIFE BETWEEN LABOR & MANAGEMENT UNDER THE NEW DEAL OF THE FDR ERA & RECALLS ROOSEVELT'S SUPPORT OF WORKER'S RIGHTS: THE FIRST STEP TOWARD PROTECTIVE LABOR LEGISLATION THAT FOLLOWED. HIGHLIGHTS UNSAFE WORKING CONDITIONS OF THE PAST. FDR VOICE BY CHARLTON HESTON.
- Description:00:24:18 - STILLS 00:24:25 - SWEATSHOP IN GARMENT MANUFACTURING. EARLY 1900s SEWING MACHINES, IRONS, CLOTHING, TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE-RELATED FOOTAGE. (NO ACTUAL FOOTAGE) 00:24:35 - CITY FIREFIGHTERS PUTTING OUT HUGE WALL FIRE. HOSES. LADDERS. 00:24:39 - FIRE TRUCK LED BY HORSES HORSE-DRAWN FIRE ENGINE EXIT FIRE HOUSE. SMOKING CITY BUILDING 00:24:42 - 1800s FIRE FIGHTERS. STEAM-RUN FIRE TRUCKS LED BY HORSES. 00:24:45 - MONTAGE OF CITY FIRE. 00:24:51 - WORKERS PUSHING SMALL METAL CONTAINERS ON WHEELS. DUMP-UNLOAD IN SHAFT. 00:24:55 - FIREFIGHTERS LATE 1890s. FIGHTING WAREHOUSE FIRE. FACTORY, INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT 00:25:00 - STILLS 00:25:03 - WORKER AT HEAVY MACHINERY. HUGE WHEEL TURNING 00:25:06 - SEQUENCE OF STILLS 00:25:10 - INNER WORKINGS IN INDUSTRIAL PLANT. COGS, GEARS, MACHINERY. WOMEN IN FRONT OF MASSIVE SPOOLS SPINNING. WOMEN IN INDUSTRY. 00:25:19 - STILLS 00:25:25 - MARCHING MEN WITH LITTLE AMERICAN FLAGS, 1920s 00:25:30 - PARADE OF SPECTATORS-SUPPORTERS, 1920s 00:25:31 - WOMEN IN LABOR MARCH, 1920s 00:25:36 - JOHN L. LEWIS SIGNING PAPERS ON AMERICAN FLAG 00:25:39 - 1920s LABOR MARCH. COUPLE CARRIES HUGE AMERICAN FLAG. PLACARD FOR MEAT CUTTERS. 00:25:50 - STEEL MANUFACTURING PLANT. WELDING HOT STEEL. BENDING & HAMMERING HOT STEEL 00:26:02 - FDR 1928, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK AT MICROPHONE (MOS). INTERCUTS CONCERNED CITIZENS LISTENING. 00:26:07 - MONTAGE OF FACTORIES, WORKERS 00:26:18 - WORKERS HELP INJURED MAN WALK 00:26:23 - CU CAPITOL, CIRCA 1933. FLAG 00:26:31 - STILLS 00:26:39 - FRANCIS PERKINS AT PRESS CONFERENCE (MOS). 00:26:48 - FRANCIS PERKINS SPEAKS ABOUT WAGER, PURCHASING POWER 00:27:05 - FDR GIVING SPEECH, NATURAL SOUND 00:27:24 - CU SIGN READS "CLOSED" 00:27:26 - UNEMPLOYED MEN WALK IDLY ON HILLSIDE 00:27:28 - CU MAN WEARING SIGN READS "UNEMPLOYED" 00:27:31 - FDR DIPS PEN & SIGNS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT. CU LOGO, NRA 00:27:37 - MONTAGE INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES, WORKERS, MACHINES. INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY SEQUENCE, CIRCA 1933. 00:27:49 - LOW ANGLE TRAIN PASSING EMPIRE STATE BUILDING 00:27:51 - POV ABOVE CITY STREET. MANY PEOPLE WALKING IN CLUMP 00:27:52 - MONTAGE VARIETY OF AMERICAN WORKERS AT WORK IN FACTORIES, CONSTRUCTION OF HIGH RISES 00:27:59 - CU MONTAGE AMERICAN WORKERS. SMOKING CIGARETTES 00:28:06 - NRA SPOKESMAN POINTS AT WORDS ON POSTER DEPICTING HOW NRA WORKS 00:28:10 - MONTAGE AMERICAN MALE WORKERS 00:28:15 - MONTAGE MEN HANDING OUT BROCHURES & PAMPHLETS TO WORKERS LEAVING FACTORIES. 00:28:24 - CU PAMPHLETS 00:28:28 - TRUCK DECORATED WITH "LLGWU ORGANIZING DRIVE" ON SIDE 00:28:31 - LONG LINE OF WOMEN GOING INTO INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION BUILDING. CU 1930s WOMEN. SIGNING IN. 00:28:42 - WOMAN ON PHONE. 00:28:43 - CU RACIALLY MIXED GROUP OF AMERICAN WOMEN 00:28:45 - CU WOMEN HOLDING THEIR HANDS OUT FOR SLIPS, PIECES OF PAPERS. USING PENCILS TO WRITE 00:28:47 - INDUSTRIAL SMOKESTACKS SPEWING BLACK SMOKE. POLLUTION. DIRTY. 00:28:56 - THE ROOSEVELTS RELAX AT FIREPLACE. FDR READING, ELEANOR KNITTING 00:29:03 - MONTAGE WORKERS HOMES: SLUMS, LONG WOODEN BRIDGE-LIKE WALKWAY BEHIND HOUSES. CU PEOPLE WALK UP HIGH STAIRCASE BEHIND INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS. TENEMENTS 00:29:09 - CU CUTE LITTLE GIRL PEERING OUT FROM LACE CURTAINS. 00:29:11 - INTERIOR OF TENEMENT OF THE 1930s. TONS OF CHILDREN IN DEPRESSED ENVIRONMENT 00:29:16 - MALE TENEMENT DWELLER WASHES FACE IN BASIN 00:29:19 - HOUSEWIFE DUMPS COAL INTO STOVE. COAL BURNING. 00:29:22 - CU LITTLE BOY STANDING NEXT TO RICKETY STAIRS 00:29:24 - CU GORGEOUS LITTLE BOY WITH BIG INQUIRING EYES PEERS OVER FENCE 00:29:26 - MEN WALKING AWAY FROM TENEMENTS 00:29:29 - MONTAGE MEETINGS: RIGHTS OF LABOR PLACARDS CALLING FOR ACTION. "NO CONTRACT, NO WORK". 00:29:40 - SPEAKER GIVES ANIMATED SPEECH TO FELLOW WORKERS INCITING WORKERS. 00:29:48 - CU BUILDING WITH SIGN "TWUA ORGANIZING COMMITTEE" ON DOOR. MEN THROW ROCKS THROUGH GLASS DOOR 00:29:50 - MONTAGE RIOTS IN THE STREETS, CIRCA 1934: MEN BEATING EACH OTHER, BREAK GLASS, THROWING SMOKE BOMBS 00:30:01 - STATE TROOPER FIRES GUN. SHOOTING 00:30:03 - LINE OF POLICEMEN KEEPING ORDER. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE. WORKERS UPRISING, REVOLTING 00:30:05 - TEAMSTERS STRIKE IN MINNEAPOLIS. CITY SHUT DOWN. WORKERS FILL STREETS 00:30:09 - TEAMSTERS & POLICE CLASHING. FIGHTING, RIOTING. BILLY CLUBS, MAYHEM 00:30:20 - CU JOHN L. LEWIS 00:30:22 - ARMED SOLDIERS MOVING IN ON COAL MINES. STRIKING MINERS. 00:30:30 - SOLDIERS WAITING FOR ORDERS. SITTING, PACING 00:30:35 - SOLDIERS WALK OUT OF MINE. SALUTED BY SOLDIER 00:30:38 - CU LINE OF ARMED SOLDIERS, GUNS SLUNG ON SHOULDERS 00:30:40 - MONTAGE OF STAND-OFF BETWEEN MINERS & ARMY 00:30:43 - STRIKING WORKERS & FAMILIES ON FOOD LINE. WOMAN POURS SOUP INTO CUP. LITTLE GIRL GETS FOOD 00:31:13 - GEORGIA: WORKERS IN CONCENTRATION CAMP-SETTING. MEN BEHIND BARBED WIRE PACE & STAND IDLY. SOLDIERS WATCH THEM 00:31:31 - MAN BENDING OVER FEEDING SEATED WOMEN 00:31:37 - NEW ENGLAND TEXTILE FACTORIES. 00:31:40 - MASS FUNERAL SERVICE. ROW OF COFFINS 00:31:46 - MONTAGE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. HS HARBOS 00:31:50 - TWO ARMED SOLDIERS PACE IN FRONT OF DOCKED BOATS. 00:31:55 - MONTAGE WORKERS ON STRIKE IN SAN FRANCISCO: POLICE SHOOTING GUNS, BUST HEADS WITH BILLY CLUBS. POLICE TRY TO EXTINGUISH SMOKE BOMBS. MASS HYSTERIA. INJURED MAN PUT IN AMBULANCE 00:32:57 - FDR IN MOTORCADE PASSES THROUGH SEA OF PEOPLE & FLAGS 00:33:18 - CU FIREMEN 00:33:23 - PAN ROOM FILLED WITH MALE COAL MINERS 00:33:31 - SENATE MEETING. 00:33:37 - NEW YORK SENATOR WAGNER WALKS WITH OTHERS 00:33:44 - WHITE HOUSE CAPITOL 00:33:45 - SENATE LEADER BANGS GAVEL PASSING NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BILL. 00:33:51 - UNION ELECTION IN INDUSTRIAL PLANT 00:33:57 - JUDICIAL BOARD MEETING BETWEEN MANAGEMENT & LABOR 00:34:02 - SENATOR WAGNER SPEAKS ON NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT "WE SHALL SEE THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA" 00:34:37 - CU "POLLING PLACE" SIGN 00:34:42 - MAN VOTING, PULLS UP CURTAIN. CU MEN'S HAND PUTTING PAPER BALLOT INTO BOX. VOTING PROCESS. 00:35:06 - 1935 MONTAGE: LABOR UNION ACTIVITIES TALKING TO WORKERS, RALLYING SUPPORT 00:35:16 - JOHN L. LEWIS ON PODIUM 00:35:19 - MONTAGE STILLS 00:35:30 - ENTRANCE TO AFL-CIO SAN FRANCISCO HEADQUARTERS 00:35:34 - LOOKING DOWN ON HUGE MARCH, RALLY 00:35:40 - FDR WAITING TO SPEAK 00:35:42 - LEADERS OF AFL & CIO LEAVING MEETING 00:35:50 - UNION LABOR MEETING 00:35:54 - JOHN L. LEWIS SPEAKS 00:36:06 - CU SOMEONE WRITING "CIO GET OUT" IN CHALK ON SIDE OF BUILDING. ANTI-LABOR UNION SENTIMENT 00:36:10 - WORKERS LEAVING MEETING, SOME WITH LUNCH BOXES 00:36:36 - 1935, FDR SIGNING SOCIAL SECURITY BILL AS PEOPLE WATCH 00:36:43 - FDR SPEAKS ON SOCIAL SECURITY 00:37:06 - CU BILL 00:37:08 - CU OLD MAN PUTTING ON GLASSES 00:37:13 - FDR OUTSIDE SPEAKING (MOS). INTERCUTS LISTENERS. MAN CUPS EAR TO HEAR BETTER 00:37:18 - CU SIGN ON BUILDING: "SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD". 00:37:20 - MONTAGE GARMENT WORKERS, WOMEN SEWING. 00:37:23 - CUs OLD WOMAN & OLD MAN 00:37:25 - MONTAGE GARMENT WORKERS, CLOTHING MANUFACTURING: BACK & FORTH MONTAGE BETWEEN SEWING MACHINE & WORKERS. 00:37:40 - OLD PENSIONERS. SOCIAL SECURITY RECIPIENTS IN RETIREMENT YEARS. BARBERSHOP HAIR CUTS AT BEACH. SITTING ON BENCHES WEARING BATHING SUITS. 00:37:43 - OUTDOOR SUMMER ACTIVITIES: SWIMMING IN LAKE 00:37:47 - RETIRED MAN SMOKING PIPE IN ROCKING CHAIR ON PORCH OF HOUSE 00:37:51 - LABOR MARCH. PRO-LEWIS PLACARDS 00:38:00 - AUTO WORKERS ON STRIKE. MONTAGE SLEEPING MEN ON STRIKE: ON COTS, SLEEPING IN CAR IN PLANT 00:38:06 - MONTAGE STRIKERS PASSING TIME, EATING. MAN PASSES OUT PIECES OF PIE. MEN DOING EXERCISES 00:38:16 - MONTAGE WORKERS' FAMILIES VISITING STRIKERS. HANDING BASKET OF FOOD, KISSING WIVES, HOLDING CHILDREN. SEEN THROUGH WINDOW OF FACTORY 00:38:29 - LAUNDRY HANGING ACROSS STREET AT FACTORY ENTRANCE (COULD BE CONSTRUED AS BACK ALLEY) 00:38:31 - MEN IN SUITS CARRYING CLUBS 00:38:36 - CU WOODEN BOX FILLED WITH GAS BOMBS 00:38:38 - MEN BREAKING FACTORY WINDOWS WITH CLUBS. POLICE & MAN WATCHES. THROW SMOKE BOMBS INSIDE 00:38:48 - MONTAGE MEN SHOOTING GUNS. RIOTING. SIT-DOWN STRIKE. MEN WIELDING CLUBS, HANG OUT OF FACTORY WINDOW 00:39:07 - EXTERIOR FACTORY WITH WINDOWS SMASHED 00:39:09 - MAN BANGS AT BIG STUFFED MAN HANGING ON SIDE OF FACTORY ON HEAD. SIGN "G.M. STOOL PIGEON" 00:39:14 - CU MAN IN CAR TALKING INTO RADIO 00:39:17 - SPEAKER FOR UAW, WALTER REUTHER. 00:39:19 - UNITED AUTO WORKERS IN FLINT, MICHIGAN. STRIKE AT CHEVORLET PLANT. 00:39:24 - MEN HANGING OUT OF WINDOW LOOKING OUT 00:39:28 - MARCHERS AT STRIKE 00:39:33 - CU LINE OF MEN'S FEET & LEGS MARCHING 00:39:36 - CU FACES OF MARCHERS. WOMAN WEARING EYE PATCH 00:39:42 - GUARD TALKS TO PERSON THROUGH BROKEN GLASS 00:39:45 - MONTAGE ARMED SOLDIERS WAITING AT STRIKING AUTO PLANT 00:39:48 - MONTAGE EXTERIOR & INTERIOR SHOTS OF INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES 00:39:55 - CU JOHN L. LEWIS SPEAKING 00:40:09 - HAPPY MEN JUMP UP & CHEER 00:40:11 - PAN HAPPY MEN IN SUITS INCLUDING WALTER P. REUTHER 00:40:14 - WOMEN HAPPY AT STRIKE'S END 00:40:15 - MAN WRITING ON CHALK BOARD. SIGN READS "STRIKE ENDS" 00:40:17 - HAPPY AUTO WORKERS CELEBRATE IN STREETS 00:40:21 - SEQUENCE OF STRIKERS LEAVING FACTORY. BIG SIGN FOR CHEVORLET MOTOR COMPANY. MEN WAVING HATS, MAN DANCES 00:40:38 - WORKING MEN LOOK UP AT SMOKESTACK 00:40:41 - CU STEAM WHISTLE BLOWING 00:40:43 - CU HAPPY FACTORY INDUSTRIAL WORKERS 00:40:59 - MONTAGE FACTORIES 00:41:01 - MOTORCADE DOWN CITY STREETS CARRYING FDR. STREETS FILLED WITH SUPPORTERS 00:41:29 - FDR ON BACK OF TRAIN CABOOSE. TRAIN LEAVES
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1898
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1890s
- File Name: VM-216