25 Years Ago Today
25 Years Ago Today
Also found in # 535895, 536169 25 Years Ago Today. Themes. Scenes. Schemes. They don't change much over the years. (1934) Here we see teachers in Chicago protesting pay injustice. 5,000 instructors are joined by sympathetic students and parents in a march thru the Loop in angry demonstration. Marchers with banners. Peaceful. Strikes spread across the nation. Jolting the economy. Violence and hardship abound. Presidential intervention brings about settlement of the auto industry strike. Crowds, men walking. F.D.R. (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) sails away on Vincent Astor's yacht for a brief fishing holiday. FDR shakes hands with a man. The President and other men on boat, FDR waves his hat. New cars rolled off the assembly lines...Shiny, 1934 models. Great shorts of workers punching time cards. Good shots of men in factory, assembling automobiles, resting and eating lunch.