“ LABOR COMES OF AGE “ U.S. LABOR MOVEMENT & UNIONS, GREAT DEPRESSION 1960s SCHOOL FILM XD49764

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website “Labor Comes of Age” is a black and white 1960s short from Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc. that focuses on the history of the United States labor movement during the 1930s and the accomplishments of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Actor Charlton Heston narrates the spoken words of . throughout the film, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt served as a consultant. Opening credits (0:18). A political cartoon depicts men on strike, “By Honest Means we Obtain Our Rights” (0:44). Workers at a sewing mill. Men in suits inspect their handiwork (0:52). Photo: Firemen spray water at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (0:58). A horse-drawn fire wagon leaves a fire station. Billowing smoke (1:05). Men dump loads from wheelbarrows (1:28). A youthful photo of . (1:37). A gas engine electricity generator (1:41). Photos of Samuel Gompers, Robert F. Wagner, and Alfred E. Smith (1:44)