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1937 "Little Steel" strike at the Newton Steel plant in Monroe, MI

Title card: "States Seek Peace in Big Steel Strike" / title "Monroe, Mich." superimposed over National Guard troops getting off of trucks / VS Guardsmen march past, one with helmet jauntily cocked as he passes by with a shoulder-mounted weapon (possibly tear-gas cannon) / Monroe Mayor Daniel Knaggs, holding cigar, stands with Guard officer / MI Gov. Frank Murphy / pan outdoor CIO rally just outside the town / side shot labor leader Homer Martin addresses the rally / men in crowd applaud / EXT City Hall; pan down to newly sworn-in deputies exiting building / two of the deputies, one wearing a University of Michigan letterman sweater / VS CU deputies: white armband tied onto arm, billy club in hand / police outside the Newton Steel Company / picketers defiantly raise clubs / VS picketer with long stick / women with pieces of bricks and sticks / VO gunfire as police move into crowd of picketers / deputies move forward bearing sawed-off shotguns / deputies chase picketers / men roll over car belonging to a picketer / car joins other cars at bottom of slope in stream
Title card: "States Seek Peace in Big Steel Strike" / title "Monroe, Mich." superimposed over National Guard troops getting off of trucks / VS Guardsmen march past, one with helmet jauntily cocked as he passes by with a shoulder-mounted weapon (possibly tear-gas cannon) / Monroe Mayor Daniel Knaggs, holding cigar, stands with Guard officer / MI Gov. Frank Murphy / pan outdoor CIO rally just outside the town / side shot labor leader Homer Martin addresses the rally / men in crowd applaud / EXT City Hall; pan down to newly sworn-in deputies exiting building / two of the deputies, one wearing a University of Michigan letterman sweater / VS CU deputies: white armband tied onto arm, billy club in hand / police outside the Newton Steel Company / picketers defiantly raise clubs / VS picketer with long stick / women with pieces of bricks and sticks / VO gunfire as police move into crowd of picketers / deputies move forward bearing sawed-off shotguns / deputies chase picketers / men roll over car belonging to a picketer / car joins other cars at bottom of slope in stream
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Credit:
Grinberg, Paramount, Pathe Newsreels
Editorial #:
1063892982
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
June 10, 1937
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
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Clip length:
00:01:22:18
Location:
Monroe, Michigan, United States
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr003133_03_01.mov