1946 - USA: Movie Strike Marked By Violence. 15Nov46

NOTE: FOR ORDERING see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1946 - USA: Movie Strike Marked By Violence. 15Nov46 MOS Pickets w/ placards outside Columbia Studio buildings. Police in metal helmets walking w/ arrested strikers in overcoats & ties walking down street, MCU; arrested boarding police bus w/ reporters around. 11:08:57 Two men clearing broken concrete from front porch of small bungalow house w/ 10149 on sign above damaged siding being pulled off. 11:09:07 Bungalow less damaged, man out of door; MCU holding pipe gesturing. 11:09:15 SOF MCU speaking in front of two microphones: “Two efforts have been made to intimidate me. Last Friday morning eight carloads of men tried to prevent me from going to work. When this failed they followed it up by throwing a bomb at my house at 2 o’clock in the morning. It shattered the windows in my house. Had it been thrown eight feet further to one side it would have landed in a bedroom where two children were sleeping. Now I am a union man; I have been one for eight years and intend to remain one. But like 10,000 other people in Hollywood we are caught in a jurisdictional dispute but we insist upon the privilege of every American citizen of working when & where they feel” (abrupt end). Labor Unions; Motion Picture Studios; Strikes; NOTE: This was a dispute between IATSE & CSU (Conference of Studio Unions representing carpenters, painters, cartoonists & several other crafts) NOTE: FOR ORDERING see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk