Ford River Rouge Plant Strike - April, 1941
LS of Rouge plant w/ empty road & parking lot. Pickets & car blocking entrance road; men w/ clubs, rocks on ground. Car w/ windows smashed out, strikers w/ anti-Bennett placards behind. Marchers w/ placards.
14:01:01 LS pan across factory buildings showing empty deserted divided road towards overpass.
14:01:22 Men & some women picketing across road at railroad crossing, truck & car pass. Strikers wave sedan w/ men thru, billboards behind.
14:01:40 Seawall w/ docked ore carrier.
14:01:55 Union men in overcoats picketing in circle in road.
14:02:19 View towards two overpasses, pickets on sidewalk; police wave cars thru. Mounted police. Traffic passing.
14:02:57 Large factory buildings; view of empty dirt parking lot from viaduct, cars along road
14:03:35 Strikers getting coffee from large pot; woman passing out sandwiches. Pickets waving to camera as cars pass.
14:04:10 Police across entrance to plant.
14:04:30 Men watching fight (brief - not really seen). Police.
14:04:38 MCU Union man w/ cap & buttons, CU cap: Ford Local 600 on cap. MCU Michigan State Police; police cars blocking entrance. Men wandering around.
14:05:00 Pickets along sidewalk in both directions. View of sign on building: Ford Motor Company w/ man looking down from above. LS from across overpass w/ Black & White workers leaving.
14:05:16 One union man on sidewalk saluting camera as others pose & walk past; men waving cars past. Police & photographers around factory entrance.
14:05:48 Union & police w/ cars trying to enter. Man in suit talking to pickets; pickets & police. Picket playing harmonica as he walks. Placards: We Want Democracy. More shots of picketing, police & traffic.
14:06:43 Pickets reading Detroit Times newspapers; CU headline: Ford Settlement Plan Near, U.S. Aide Says. CIO Lifts Barricade.
14:06:54 Men passing out sandwiches to passing pickets; CU eating.
14:07:13 Walter Reuther (?) in UAW - CIO cap talking w/ Black who’s taking notes or ??? Smiling.
14:07:22 CU dipping soup or milk out of milk can; CU man drinking.
Apr41; Unionization; Union Organizing; WWII Labor Troubles; WW2 Homefront; Ford Motor Company; Anti-AFL;
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Ford River Rouge Plant Strike - April, 1941 LS of Rouge plant w/ empty road & parking lot. Pickets & car blocking entrance road; men w/ clubs, rocks on ground. Car w/ windows smashed out, strikers w/ anti-Bennett placards behind. Marchers w/ placards. 14:01:01 LS pan across factory buildings showing empty deserted divided road towards overpass. 14:01:22 Men & some women picketing across road at railroad crossing, truck & car pass. Strikers wave sedan w/ men thru, billboards behind. 14:01:40 Seawall w/ docked ore carrier. 14:01:55 Union men in overcoats picketing in circle in road. 14:02:19 View towards two overpasses, pickets on sidewalk; police wave cars thru. Mounted police. Traffic passing. 14:02:57 Large factory buildings; view of empty dirt parking lot from viaduct, cars along road 14:03:35 Strikers getting coffee from large pot; woman passing out sandwiches. Pickets waving to camera as cars pass. 14:04:10 Police across entrance to plant. 14:04:30 Men watching fight (brief - not really seen). Police. 14:04:38 MCU Union man w/ cap & buttons, CU cap: Ford Local 600 on cap. MCU Michigan State Police; police cars blocking entrance. Men wandering around. 14:05:00 Pickets along sidewalk in both directions. View of sign on building: Ford Motor Company w/ man looking down from above. LS from across overpass w/ Black & White workers leaving. 14:05:16 One union man on sidewalk saluting camera as others pose & walk past; men waving cars past. Police & photographers around factory entrance. 14:05:48 Union & police w/ cars trying to enter. Man in suit talking to pickets; pickets & police. Picket playing harmonica as he walks. Placards: We Want Democracy. More shots of picketing, police & traffic. 14:06:43 Pickets reading Detroit Times newspapers; CU headline: Ford Settlement Plan Near, U.S. Aide Says. CIO Lifts Barricade. 14:06:54 Men passing out sandwiches to passing pickets; CU eating. 14:07:13 Walter Reuther (?) in UAW - CIO cap talking w/ Black who’s taking notes or ??? Smiling. 14:07:22 CU dipping soup or milk out of milk can; CU man drinking. Apr41; Unionization; Union Organizing; WWII Labor Troubles; WW2 Homefront; Ford Motor Company; Anti-AFL;