Share Please click on any point in the description to jump straight to that segment.

To view Documents, Firefox users will need to right click and "save as," changing file extension from php to pdf.

Image Union, episode 5. Date: 01/11/79 | Running Time: 63 min. Add Image Union, episode 5. to playlist Nominate this video My Clip Video Editor Bookmark/episode description Save

0:00 End credits to the Dick Cavett show. 0:51 Advertisement for Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and others... 01:55 Image Union opening, with introduction by Studs Terkel. This broadcast devoted to Chicago peoples' work and struggles. 04:02 Footage of the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937. Footage of steel workers with their wives and children demonstrating for the right to peacefully picket. Uncut voiceover by Sam Leavitt, steel worker organizer. Shows Al Carvey bleeding to death. Illinois Labor History Society. 10:43 Excerpt from Winnie Wright, Age 11. Winnie's father, a steel worker, discusses importance of Union. Winnie discusses what she'll be when she grows up. Winnie's father tells the family his union may go on strike. Kartemquin Films. 14:45 Excerpt from When I Was a Worker Like LaVerne. Sal Camodeca, Asst. Manager at Sears catalogue distribution warehouse, discusses employee conditions and suggestion programs with worker LaVerne Reese. From It's a Living. By Skip Blumberg and Jane Aaron. 20:50 Uno Mas by Mike Torro, Iris Bruno and Jose Claudio. A fictional account of the struggles a Puerto Rican man faces after arriving in America for the first time. 28:14 Excerpts from Stock Yards: End of an Era. Interviews with F.M. Flynn, Maryellen Roth, George Yirell and others about the old days as European immigrants in the livestock yards. 34:31 Image Union re-opening. 35:00 Packingtown, USA. Discusses the hardships of the European immigrants living in Packingtown, Chicago, a white ethnic ghetto. Covers the meatpackers' struggle for higher wages and better working conditions in the union strike of 1904. 57:59 Excerpt from Trick Bag. A Back Porch, Lincoln and Paulina. A group of women discuss race and working conditions in Chicago. Kartemquin Films. 1:02:20 Tape ends abruptly. Main Credits: show produced by Tom Weinberg ; individual segments produced by The Illinois Labor History Society; Kartemquin Films; Skip Blumberg, Jane Aaron, and Videopolis; Mike Torro, Iris Bruno, and Jose Claudio; and Kartemquin Films Additional Credits: no related documents List of comments You need to be registered user to post comments. Please login or register. Click here to login Your Clips This feature is available only in Clipstream version.