Richmond Oil Strike

Richmond Oil Strike Montage of Standard Oil refinery shots & narration from promo film. Workers; plant control room; town; kids. 01:38:07 The Newsreel - Radical documentary 01:38:13 04Jan69 strike by Oil, Chemical and Atomic Worker’s Union vs. Standard Oil and Shell refinery. LS Richmond industrial landscape. Smoke out of chimneys, factories. Workers talking outside factory on strike. Narration for demands for increased wages. Night shot oil refinery. Police break strike in rain. Demonstrators & striking pickets hold placards. Wives of workers interviewed re police brutality when picketing. Oil worker re police violence. 01:41:21 Workers out of factory, VO worker re being treated as second class citizen. Wife talks re violence outside factory. 01:42:17 Policeman out of car walks up to strikers w/ placards beside trucks; lorries. 01:43:06 Service station gasoline pump. Oil barrels on production line. Oil drilling. Narration re Shell & Standard Oil power & previous assaults on workers & unions. Various workers re Standard Oil control & power over people’s lives. Bomber drops bomb. petrol pump. Truck at night. 01:45:21 Death of Standard oil trade union member Dick Jones, funeral. Highway, moving shots past factory w/ small group of workers or protesters standing outside. Men attach funeral wreaths on factory gates. (GOOD) 01:47:57 Workers & wives walking to protest re police brutality. 01:48:32 SDS (Students for Democratic Society) picket & demonstration outside chemical plant. Third World Liberation Front speaker re intimidation & establishment’s attempt to crush labor / labour movement. Police chases demonstrators. POV past pikets. Chanting. Some protesters climbing on lorries. Worker compares situation to 1929. 01:51:06 “Standard’ sign. Narration re end of strike. Speaker at demonstration says people must join together to make changes over shots of demonstration. LS refinery. Radical Political Filmmaking; 1960s; Propaganda; Anti-Capitalism; Film Collective;