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General Motors Workers Walk Out Strike, 21Nov45

Reel Number: 221690-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1945

Country: USA

Location: California,Detroit,Michigan,New Jersey,Trenton

TC Begins: 14:21:27

TC Ends: 14:24:22

Duration: 00:02:55

General Motors Workers Walk Out Strike, 21Nov45 NOTE: The material augments material on reel at 14:31:00 - 14:36:42 Men leave factory past guard post, pick up UAW picket placards. 14:21:47 MS men in picket line past sign: Ternstedt Manufacturing Company... 14:21:53 Unid man w/ striped tie at desk. 14:22:00 Union men w/ checks or papers posing on steps. 14:22:03 Pickets alongside factory fence w/ placards UAW-CIO on strike for 30% raise. Views of workers leaving plant, getting strike placards. Women w/ placards. Picket lines past General Motors Parts Division sign. 14:23:14 Men leaving factory w/ tool boxes. Pickets outside fence. LS of factory & workers leaving. 14:24:01 Men picketing outside building w/ sign: Northern California Division, General Motors Corporation Automobile Industry; Unionization; Post-WWII; Post-WW2 Economics; Economy; Jobs; NOTE 1: horizontal lines probably on VHS only at 00:21:5 . NOTE 2: Strike lasted from 21Nov45 until 13Mar46 led by UAW head Walter Reuther. NOTE 3: Low building(s) could be Trenton, New Jersey Ternstedt plant built in 1937.

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