Oakland Steel Mill, Wire Drawing & Nail Pointing (1938)

Oakland Steel Mill, Wire Drawing & Nail Pointing (1938) Maedler’s West Coast Glowing hot steel being drawn, cut. Overhead crane moving glowing material; workman below. Hot wire being coiled automatically. View of men working w/ glowing steel in dark factory. 03:01:32 Long row of belt driven swaging (?) machines w/ wire being fed into them from coils. Men operating each machine. 03:02:32 CU of drawing cutting and forming nails. Men moving carts of nails. 03:04:29 Man at table inspecting piles of nails & pulling into kegs. Nails being tumbled. Stacks of pallets of kegs of nails in warehouse, men walking past. Hyster moving & stacking pallets of nails. 03:06:41 Men on floor moving steel w/ tongs in floor troughs. 03:07:32 Man feeding steel into rolling machine and pullng out. Other men moving steel in roller. Man w/ steel guarded shoe moving steel sheets. Industry; 1930s; Labor; Steel workers;