Us Phone Strike (1947)

Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unknown or unclear. San Francisco, United States of America - April 1947. Various shots of skirmishes between strikers and police occurring during the mass picketing demonstration of telephone workers in San Francisco (US phone strike). M/S as women demonstrators are hustled into a police van. Various shots of confusion and scuffles as protesting men demonstrators are bundled into police vans by policemen. Strikers watch and boo the police. L/S panning down the main building of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company to pavement below where six pickets, the legal number, are patrolling - they look pretty tired and bored. More shots of people being put into police vans while the crowds watch. Looks like traffic is at a standstill. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR