Post-WWII - 1946, USA Labor, Mining: Striking Miners in Bar, Listening to Radio; Coal Mining

1946 - Striking Coal Miners & Families Radio Listening; Coal Miners’ Railroad May46. Family listening to radio; passing around cigarettes. 00:40:45 Men in bar listening to radio on bar & drinking beers w/ US flags around. LS & MS. 00:41:25 Men playing cards & listening to radio, beer glasses on table. Men in front of pot-belly stove w/ radio beside. 00:42:10 Older couple in front of console radio. 00:42:32 Miners w/ lights & helmets listening to radio, map of mine on wall behind. CU sign / notice saying President has ordered coal mine taken over by Secretary of Interior. Miners read. 00:43:16 Slug. 00:43:18 MS Coal miners w/ lamps in room panned across. Cleaning (?) lamps. 00:44:06 Electric underground mining train past camera. Ext. of mine train, CU cars passing. Train out of mine entrance past camera. Loading coal into RR cars from hopper. 00:45:31 POV from RR car. Man chalks work date on building. 00:46:12 Steam engines pulling string of coal cars past. High angle of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania bridges & haze / smog; chimneys putting out smoke w/ hills behind. 00:47:10 Electric train out of mine & re-entering mine w/ empty cars. 1940s; Daily Life; Workers; Mining Industry; May46; President Truman; Mine Safety; Labor Unions; NOTE: Coal miners had been on strike when Federal take-over was ordered 21May46. New safety regulations were ordered for government mines but private mining companies ignored compliance. NOTE: Sold at per reel rate.