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Seattle General Strike 1919

30 Aug

3:46-minute excerpt from Witness to Revolution: The Story of Anna Louis Strong contains original film footage from 1919, the only known footage of the strike. Produced and directed by Lucy Ostrander. The excerpt is part of an award-winning documentary film biography of Anna Louise Strong, Seattle’s most famous radical.

The General Strike began February 6 and ended February 11, 1919. It was called to support the shipyard workers demands for higher wages after a World War I ended.

The shipyard workers were represented by different crafts that composed a “Metal Trades Council” that had been on strike since January 21, 1919.

The Seattle Central Labor Council called the General Strike in support of the Metal Trades unions. The strike ultimately failed and many labor leaders were jailed and the only labor newspaper in Seattle was shut down.

 
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Posted by on August 30, 2012 in Available Online, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

The Creation of the CIO (1935)

30 Aug

7:18; U.S.

Director: March of Time

Synopsis: Newsreel documentary focusing on John L. Lewis and accounting for the reasons behind and early conflicts over the split of the American Federation of Labor in 1935 and the creation of the rival federation, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).  Film is clearly pro-CIO and contains fantastic footage of Lewis, Sidney Hillman, and other major organizational leaders of labor in the Depression years.

 
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Posted by on August 30, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Communism/Socialism, Documentary, Labor History, Organizing, Politics, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

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Strikebreaking During the Depression (1934)

30 Aug

5:06; U.S.

Director: March of Time newsreel

Synopsis: Newsreel footage about Pearl Berghoff, the owner of the Berghoff Agency which was one of the premier strike-breaking companies through the 1930s.  The newsreel both gives an overview of Berghoff, and looks specifically at his company’s involvement in strikes in Georgia in 1934.

 
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Posted by on August 30, 2012 in Documentary, Labor History, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

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Labor Unrest in Coal During and After World War II

30 Aug

4:16; U.S.

Director: United Mine Workers of America

Synopsis: Newsreel about the UMW’s fights with the Roosevelt administration during World War II.

 
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Posted by on August 30, 2012 in Big Business/Corporations, Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Politics, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

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The Brotherhood of Man (1946)

30 Aug

10:36; U.S.

Director: Robert Cannon

Synopsis: An animated short film sponsored by the United Autoworkers which breaks down various racist ideas of difference among peoples.  In some ways the presentation will seem awkward to a modern audience, but considering when it was made and the intended audience (rank-and-file white workers), it is an impressive document.

 
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Posted by on August 30, 2012 in Animation, Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Documentary, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

AFL and CIO Merge (1955)

30 Aug

6:34; U.S.

Director: Universal International News

Synopsis: Newsreel footage about the merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955 to create the current AFL-CIO.

 
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Posted by on August 30, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Labor History, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

Margaret Haley & Chicago Teachers (2007)

13 Jul

3m; U.S.

Director: American Federation of Teachers

Synopsis: Documentary on Margaret Haley and the origins of American Federation of Teachers in Chicago, circa 1917.

 
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Posted by on July 13, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Education, Organizing, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Women

 

Woodrow Wilson Speaking at Labor Convention (1918?)

13 Jul

6m; U.S.

Synopsis: National Archives footage of Wilson at Labor Convention in Buffalo; footage of Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor.

 
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Posted by on July 13, 2012 in Available Online, Documentary, Labor History, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

Ten Dollars an Hour

13 Jul

The story of an African-American cook working at an all-white fraternity house at the University of Mississippi.

Ten Dollars an Hour (Full Movie: 15m)

 
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Posted by on July 13, 2012 in Blacks, Class, Documentary, Education, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo)

 

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Union Maids (1976)

13 Jun

48m; U.S.

Director: Julia Reichert, James Klein and Miles Mogulescu

Synopsis: Traces the organizing activities of three working class women in the laundry, meat packing and garment industries in Chicago in the 1930s. Features the oral histories of 3 women labor activists involved in the workers’ movements in the early 1930s: Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, and Sylvia Woods. The women are figures of dignity and beauty amid their experiences of social injustice.

Nominated for an Oscar in 1978 for best feature documentary, and winner in 1978 of the French Syndicate of Cinema Critics’ “Critics Award” for Best Short.

 
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Posted by on June 13, 2012 in Collective Bargaining, Documentary, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History, Organizing, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Textile Industry, Women

 

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