CSPAN3 Reel America For The Record - 1946 July 14, 2024
4985 strikes involving 4. 6 million workers in 1946, the largest number of strikes the bureau ever recorded in a single year. The main issues were low wages and rising living costs. Next, on reel america, for the record, a 1946 documentary about the strikes from the perspective of organized labor. Humming] look around you, my friend, and see what there is to see. There is the world. Mountains,ers, plains, all there before we arrived on the scene. That is where we come in, you and i, workers. , huge, tiny, the works, books and beans, divers, stoops, and skyscrapers. Watts and kilowatts. Tall, s...