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Police Stem Effort By Bonus Hikers To Blockade Railroad

Reel Number: 221508-11

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1932

Country: USA

Location: Cleveland,Ohio

TC Begins: 04:08:53

TC Ends: 04:11:59

Duration: 00:03:06

Police Stem Effort By Bonus Hikers To Blockade Railroad Military Bonus Army gathered in town street by railway tracks, police on tracks, train engine nearby. Trains in yard, demonstration w/ women, boys as men take over train & sit on tracks; police move along w/ demonstrators. Men posing on engine 4228, sitting on tracks, several w/ US flags. Man speaks, men applaud & police watch. Policemen & men sitting on coal car w/ flag. 04:10:27 MCU police moving men. 04:10:32 US Capitol thru trees - Bonus Army gathered in field, more arriving by truck & car, waving. Marching & arriving, greetings. Soup kitchen & feeding. Men under open-sided shed lounging, washing feet. Depression; March on Washington; WWI Veterans; WW1; NOTE: VERY good reel.

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