PEOPLE TO PEOPLE Reel 1 · Part 1

Description

Four British working men tour U.S. war plants and discuss; labor management problems with U.S. labor groups. Shows President Roosevelt, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, and Churchill at Teheran. The British group meets N.Y. Mayor La Guardia, WPB head Donald Nelson, Sec. of Labor Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House, and Vice President Wallace at the U.S. Capitol. The group discusses, with A.F.L. and C.I.O. stewards, the use of labor-management conferences to settle labor disputes. Employee suggestions are analyzed at a N.J. labor management meeting. The operations of multiple drills are observed at Chrysler Tank Arsenal, Detroit. The headquarters of the Screen Actors' Guild in Los Angeles is visited, Shows Edward Arnold, George Murphy, Dick Powell, Jane Wyman, Helen Hayes, and Lena Horne, The assembly of Ventura and Constellation airplanes is viewed at the Lockheed plant in Los Angeles. Drill presses and electric spot welders are used. Shows cafeteria scenes, Union stewards in Los Angeles explain that returning veterans, both union and non-union workers, will be credited with seniority rights for their service time. The work of labor management commissions is praised. Cites the need for continued industrial cooperation between the U.S. and Great Britain.

Collection

Records of the Office of War Information

Series

Propaganda, Information, and Documentary Motion Pictures