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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221690-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1945,1946
Country: USA
Location: Detroit,Michigan
TC Begins: 14:31:00
TC Ends: 14:36:42
Duration: 00:05:42
General Motors Workers During Strike, 21Nov45 - 13Mar46 NOTE: This reel has material additional to material on 14:21:27 - 14:24:22 MCUs & CUs man in striped tie at desk, smiling, writing & reading. 14:31:41 Winter, LS of city street w/ tall skyscraper & lower government building or bank - pedestrians & traffic. Street cars, trucks. 14:31:57 Workers walking picket line past entrance w/ plaque: Ternstedt Manufacturing Company. 14:32:13 Women & other union members out of wooden building, Slovenian Workers Home; gather on sidewalk. 14:33:00 General Motors automobile sales room, people looking at cars. Man getting into Chevrolet sedan, salesman with him. 14:33:32 Ext of four-story factory w/ pickets & placards in front, including Cadillac Local 22. 14:33:53 Int. LS & MS of stopped assembly line w/ nearly completed Cadillac cars. 14:34:35 Line of motors. 14:34:38 Ext. ornate General Motors Building w/ columns at entrance. 14:34:41 Large General Motors Headquarters, Detroit, Michigan & traffic passing. 14:34:46 CU Walter Reuther in top coat. 14:34:53 Int of factory w/ workers in hats & coats getting Union subsistence payments. CU. Men stand on steps outside w/ checks or papers. CUs. Man to pay window, seen from inside, receiving pay. View from outside pay windows of truck or trailer - sign Brinks Incorporated. 14:35:59 GM showroom w/ car models & people viewing. 14:36:06 Walter Reuther at desk talking to other men in suits, men taking notes. Automobile Industry; Unionization; Post-WWII; Post-WW2 Economics; Economy; Jobs; NOTE: Strike lasted from 21Nov45 until 13Mar46 led by UAW head Walter Reuther.