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It’s Meat On The Table Once More

Reel Number: 221357-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1946

Country: USA

Location:

TC Begins: 22:08:06

TC Ends: 22:09:06

Duration: 00:01:00

It’s Meat On The Table Once More Ed Herlihy announces. Meat packing workers marching outside wholesaler. Warming around barrels burning scrap wood to keep warm. 22:08:24 Industry leaders in suits w/ Gale Armstrong, mediator. Government takes over. Union officials order strikers back to work. Men outside large plant; sign: Women employment office. Formal seizure notice is posted & US flag raised over Swift & Company plant. 22:08:45 Hereford livestock at feed trough; men working on conveyor lines trimming meat; hams onto belts. Post-WWII labor settlement; striking workers; Labor Unions; Meeting Cutters; Cutting; Post-WW2; Pickets;

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