- Title: F-9701
- Summary: THE SQUEEZE: LABOR UNIONS. STRIKES. PRESIDENT TRUMAN. THE DEPRESSION.
- Description:00:31:57 - 1947 STRIKERS RIOT. MICHIGAN STATE POLICE. PICKETERS WITH PLACARDS "WE WANT DEMOCRACY" 00:32:10 - INJURED POLICEMAN CARRIED AWAY 00:32:13 - HARRY TRUMAN TALKS TO THE CAMERA 00:32:27 - 1947 LABOR STRIKE. MAN POURS WATER FOR PASSING STRIKERS PICKETERS CARRYING PLACARDS "COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NOT ANTI-LABOR LAWS" "GM HIDES BOOKS" 00:32:34 - TRUMAN 00:32:42 - EXTERIOR CAPITOL BUILDING WASHINGTON. CAPITOL DOME 00:32:45 - CONGRESS IN SESSION. TAFT-HARTLEY ACT. MEMBERS APPLAUD MOS. 00:32:49 - TRUMAN 00:33:03 - JOHN L. LEWIS MAKES ANTI-TRUMAN STATEMENT. SOF. MBS MICROPHONE 00:33:26 - TRUMAN 00:34:08 - POV CROSSING A BRIDGE. ARMY TROOPS CROSSING BRIDGE 00:34:16 - SOLDIERS WALK PAST DEAD SOLDIER LYING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD WWII. GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDERING RUNNING WITH THEIR HANDS IN THE AIR. CU YOUNG GERMAN SOLDIER CRYING UNBUTTONS UNIFORM COAT 00:34:24 - CU NAZI FLAG BURNING ON THE GROUND, 1945 00:34:26 - ALLIED SOLDIERS IN EUROPE CROSS BRIDGE 00:34:29 - ARMED SOLDIERS KEEPING PEACE AT UNION STRIKE. MAN BACKS AWAY FROM BAYONET. POLICEMEN CARRY STRIKERS AWAY. POLICEMAN MANHANDLE FEMALE STRIKER. STRIKERS BEING ARRESTED. 00:34:40 - LABOR NEWSLETTER WITH CARICATURE OF JOHN L. LEWIS ON THE FRONT HAND GRABS A COPY. BROOKLYN EAGLE NEXT TO IT. NEWSSTAND 00:34:44 - LABOR STRIKE CIRCA 1945. PICKETERS CARRY PLACARDS. "RAISE WAGES HOLD PRICES INSURE PROSPERITY" 00:34:51 - TRUMAN 00:34:57 - LABOR STRIKE, 1945. 00:35:03 - IDLE, OUT OF WORK MEN, MEN ON STRIKE SIT IN URBAN PARK 00:35:05 - TRUMAN 00:35:10 - CHART WITH PENDULUM. EXCESSES OF MANAGEMENT. PARTNERSHIP. EXCESS OF LABOR. PENDULUM SWINGS. 00:35:30 - STILL 00:35:34 - SHANTY TOWN. POOR IMMIGRANTS. TENEMENTS. BLACK AND WHITE POOR IN AMERICA. CIRCA 1920s. DEPRESSION 00:35:40 - STILLS. CHILD LABOR. LABOR STRIKES. 00:36:13 - LABOR STRIKE, 1920s. NATIONAL GUARD. POLICEMEN BEATING STRIKERS. MAN HOLDS THE BACK OF HIS HEAD AS HE IS LED INTO PADDY WAGON 00:36:29 - MINERS ENTERING THE MINE WITH ARMED NATIONAL GUARDS. 00:36:33 - COAL MINERS AT WORK IN FILTHY MINE 00:36:38 - POLICE TEAR DOWN WOODEN STRUCTURE. ARMED NATIONAL GUARDS PATROL THE STREETS. 00:36:56 - STILLS OF LABOR LEADERS. JOHN L. LEWIS. ALVAINLI ?SP JOHNSTON. ALEXANDER WHITNEY. 00:37:24 - THE GOLDEN AGE 1920s DANCING LAWN PARTY MEN IN LIGHT SUITS AND WOMEN IN LONG DRESSES. 00:37:30 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FRIDAY OCTOBER 25, 1929. BLACK FRIDAY STOCK MARKET CRASH 00:37:37 - MEN IN EMPLOYMENT OFFICE LOOKING FOR WORK 00:37:40 - CU MAN PICKS UP BOTTLE OF MILK FRONT FRONT STOOP. HUNGRY MAN STEALS BOTTLE OF MILK 00:37:42 - UNEMPLOYED MEN ON BREAD LINE. SOUP KITCHEN 00:37:45 - UNEMPLOYED PICKETERS MARCH ON WASHINGTON 00:37:49 - HS SHANTY TOWN SHACKS POVERTY DURING THE DEPRESSION 00:37:51 - 1933 FDR GIVES SPEECH "OUR GREATEST PRIMARY TASK IS TO PUT PEOPLE TO WORK" FROM ONLY THING TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF SPEECH 00:38:07 - HS MEN FORM THE LETTERS CCC THEN SPLIT UP AND RUN 00:38:11 - FDR GREETS THE PUBLIC FROM HIS CONVERTABLE. SHAKING HANDS WITH CITIZENS 00:38:15 - NRA WORKERS NATIONAL RECOVERY ACT PLAN BUILDING ROADS 00:38:34 - 1935 SENATOR WAGNER LABOR RELATIONS ACT. AUDITORIUM MARQUEES "TODAY CIO MEETING" MEN APPLAUD. UNION MEETING. 00:38:45 - SENATOR ROBERT F. WAGNER, SR. SPEECH SOF. "...SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO ASK FREE MEN TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES WETHER OR NOT THEY WANT TO BELONG TO A UNION" "THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT IS NOW THE LAW OF THE LAND" 00:39:10 - JOHN L. LEWIS AND OTHER LABOR LEADERS ON BALCONY 00:39:12 - PARADE. FLOAT "JOHN L. LEWIS THANKS TO YOU..." UNIFORMED UNION MEMBERS MARCH. ANOTHER JOHN L. LEWIS FLOAT 00:39:31 - SENATE MEETING. JUNIOR SENATOR FROM MISSOURI, HARRY TRUMAN AMONG SENATORS. 00:39:40 - STILLS LABOR LEADERS 00:39:58 - TRUMAN 00:40:38 - CU PENDULUM SWINGS FROM EXCESSES OF MANAGEMENT TO EXCESSES OF LABOR. PENDULUM SWINGING LABOR'S WAY 00:40:42 - CU MONTAGE AMERICAN CITIZENS AT POLITICAL RALLY CIRCA 1941 00:40:53 - EXTERIOR CAPITOL BUILDING WASHINGTON. CAPITOL DOME. 00:40:55 - CROWD RISES TO THEIR FEET AND APPLAUD 00:41:03 - MOUNTED POLICEMEN RACING THROUGH CROWD. RIOT. STRIKERS. 00:41:07 - FEET OF STRIKERS PACING 00:41:11 - LONG LINE OF IDLE MEN OUT OF WORK 00:41:15 - TRUMAN 00:41:27 - LOCK OUT. GUARD CLOSES FACTORY GATE CU LOCKING GATE WITH PADLOCK 00:41:31 - AERIAL TIP OF LOWER MANHATTAN PIERS SHIPS IN HARBOR 00:41:38 - FACTORY WORKERS LEAVING FACTORY 00:41:41 - TROOPS ON SHIP DOCKED IN NEW YORK HARBOR. SOLDIERS WAVING COMING HOME AFTER WWII 00:41:53 - BANNER "ACTION AT LAST VETERANS! ROOMS FOR YOU COME AND GET THEM" 00:41:56 - LINE OF MEN AND WOMEN REGISTERING SIGN "PLEASE REGISTER HERE" 00:42:06 - TRUMAN 00:42:18 - LONG LINE OF PICKETERS STRETCH A CITY BLOCK. PLACARDS 00:42:26 - STRIKERS SMASHING FACTORY WINDOWS WITH BASEBALL BATS 00:42:31 - LONG LINE OF STRIKERS A WHOLE CITY BLOCK LONG MEN & WOMEN BLACK & WHITE. 00:42:41 - UNIONS ON STRIKE. PARKED TRAINS AND BUSSES 00:42:51 - TRUMAN 00:43:13 - CU PLACARD "TIME HAS COME FOR ACTION" PICKETERS CARRY PLACARDS. STRIKING WORKERS 00:43:22 - MEN HUDDLED AROUND RADIO MEN LISTEN TO RADIO 00:43:29 - FALL, 1945 TRUMAN GIVES A SPEECH SOF "..IT WILL NOT BE LONG BEFORE WE HAVE PUT INDUSTRIAL STRIKES BEHIND US.." LABOR & MANAGEMENT SPEECH 00:43:55 - LABOR LEADER JOHN L. LEWIS, 00:44:01 - CONGRESS IN SESSION CIRCA 1945. 00:44:08 - TRUMAN 00:44:28 - TRUMAN SHAKES HANDS WITH MANAGEMENT LEADER ON ONE SIDE OF HIM AND LABOR LEADER ON THE OTHER 00:44:40 - MONTAGE LABOR LEADERS ALVAINLI ?SP JOHNSTON ALEXANDER WHITNEY JOHN L. LEWIS DOFFS HIS HAT 00:44:49 - TRUMAN 00:44:55 - MINING DISASTER. BLAST. EXPLOSION. MINANGO, WEST VIRGINIA. DEAD MINER CARRIED OUT 1940 00:45:03 - PENNSYLVANIA MINING DISASTER 139 DEAD. 00:45:08 - CHERRY, ILLINOIS MINING DISASTER 59 DEAD. SOMBER WIVES LOOKS ON 00:45:14 - DAWSON, NEW MEXICO MINING DISASTER EXPLOSION 163 DEAD 00:45:20 - CASTLE GATE, UTAH 71 DEAD 00:45:26 - WEST VIRGINIA MINING DISASTER 181 DEAD 00:45:34 - CU JOHN L. LEWIS. CAMERA FLASH AS PHOTOGRAPHS ARE TAKEN. 00:45:42 - CU BULLETIN "MONDAY HAS BEEN PROCLAIMED A MEMORIAL DAY FOR MINERS LOST IN NO. 5 MINE EXPLOSION BUSINESS FIRMS WILL BE CLOSED" 00:45:47 - MASS FUNERAL FOR DEAD MINERS. PALLBEARERS CARRY COFFINS AT GRAVEYARD. MOURNERS. PRIESTS. 00:45:55 - TRUMAN 00:45:59 - JOHN L. LEWIS AT THE WHITE HOUSE TO MEET WITH TRUMAN PRESS MEMBERS THERE TO GREET HIM. PHOTO OP. 00:46:09 - CU RAILROAD WHEELS. STEAM LOCOMOTIVE. TRAINS 00:46:22 - ALEXANDER WHITNEY AND ALVAINLEY JOHNSTON IN THE WHITE HOUSE TO MEET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN 00:46:45 - MINERS COME UP FROM THE MINES IN MINING CARS. APRIL 1, 1946 MINERS WALKING OUT ON STRIKE. SPRINGDALE MINE. 00:46:59 - MAY 24, 1946 RAILROAD STRIKE RAILROAD WORKERS WALKING OFF THE JOB OUT ON STRIKE. ENGINEER CLIMBS OFF TRAIN LOOKS AT POCKET WATCH. CU IDLE TRAIN WHEELS. SWITCH MAN PULLS LEVER. WORKERS POST SIGN "ALL TRAIN SERVICE TEMPORARILY DISCONTINUED 00:47:22 - STRANDED PASSENGERS WITH PILES OF LUGGAGE 00:47:26 - BLACK PORTERS PULLMAN PORTERS ON STRIKE 00:47:28 - TRAIN ENGINEERS WALKING OFF THE JOB 00:47:30 - PAN RAIL YARD FULL OF TRAINS. TRAIN YARD. TRANSPORTATION STRIKE. COAL CARS FULL. 00:47:36 - AUTOMOBILE FACTORY EMPTY OF WORKERS ON STRIKE 00:47:40 - TRUMAN 00:48:14 - 1946 COAL MINERS WALKING OFF THE JOB 00:48:25 - AERIAL NETWORK OF HIGHWAYS 00:48:29 - CROWD OF PEOPLE LOOKING UP. 00:48:31 - OLD WOMAN WALKS WITH BASKET OF COAL. ANOTHER WOMAN WALKS WITH COAL SACK ACROSS HER SHOULDER. 00:48:33 - TRUMAN 00:48:42 - HS COAL MINING TOWN 00:48:45 - HS PAN EMPTY RAILROAD GONDOLA CARS 00:48:57 - TRUMAN 00:49:09 - MINERS WALK PAST AMERICAN FLAG LOOK UP AT FLAG AS THEY PASS 00:49:35 - CAPITOL BUILDING WASHINGTON CAPITOL DOME 00:49:41 - MAY 25, 1946 TRUMAN SPEAKS TO CONGRESS AGAINST JOHNSTON, WHITNEY AND LEWIS. ASKS THAT CONGRESS ACT IMMEDIATELY TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT TO DRAFT INTO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES ALL WORKERS WHO ARE STRIKING AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. CONGRESSMEN APPLAUD 00:50:14 - TRUMAN RECEIVES WORD FROM THE RAILROAD DURING HIS SPEECH TO CONGRESS THAT THE RAILROAD STRIKE IS OVER. MORE APPLAUSE. 00:50:27 - ALEXANDER WHITNEY, PRESIDENT OF BROTHERHOOD OF RAILWAY TRAINMEN SPEAKS SOF. 00:50:54 - MSG MADISON SQUARE GARDEN MARQUEES "TONITE CIO RALLY MAYOR O'DWYER PHILIP MURRAY". LABOR RALLY. CONVENTION 00:51:04 - STEAM TRAINS STARTING ENGINES RUNNING AGAIN, RAILROAD STRIKE OVER 00:51:16 - STERN LOOKING JOHN L. LEWIS STRIKES AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT 00:51:31 - TRUMAN 00:52:00 - MUNICIPAL COURT CRIMINAL DIVISION. JOHN L. LEWIS FINED FOR CONTEMPT. AND LEAVING COURTHOUSE. PRESS CAMERAMEN TAKE PHOTOS 00:52:20 - TRUMAN 00:52:26 - JOHN L. LEWIS MAKES SPEECH AGAINST TRUMAN SOF. 00:52:44 - TRUMAN 00:53:19 - LABOR LAW TAFT-HARTLEY ACT. SENATOR ROBERT TAFT ARGUES WITH JOHN L. LEWIS ABOUT LABOR ISSUES. 00:53:53 - SENATOR TAFT GIVES SPEECH ABOUT LABOR UNIONS "..THERE MUST BE NO LEGISLATION ON THE PAIN OF POLITICAL EXECUTION" 00:54:17 - TRUMAN 00:54:34 - LABOR MARCH "NATIONAL MARITIME UNION CIO" BANNER. CU BABY ASLEEP IN STROLLER. BANNERS URGING TO VETO THE TAFT-HARTLEY LABOR BILL. 00:54:51 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN GIVES SPEECH ABOUT WHY HE DID VETO THE BILL 00:55:03 - UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL "LABOR BILL PASSED OVER TRUMAN VETO" WALTER REUTHER, PRESIDENT OF UNITED AUTOMOBILE WORKERS GIVES SPEECH ABOUT THE BILL. 00:55:22 - HUGE CROWD LISTENS TO TRUMAN SPEAK. 1940s CROWD LISTENS TRUMaN SPEECH SOF. INSISTS PEOPLE GO OUT AND VOTE OR THE REPUBLICANS WILL RUIN EVERYTHING. 1948 CAMPAIGN TRAIL 00:55:52 - TRUMAN WRAPS UP THE PROGRAM
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1920
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: F-9701