| Defy DeGaulle: French Miners Continue Strike | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1708 |
| Catalog #: | 425169 | |
| Clip Number: | 425169-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 036-021-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:29:19 - 00:30:05 | |
| Location: | France | |
| Year Shot: | 1963 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Demonstrators DEMONSTRATIONS: Labor INDUSTRY/MINING: Coal LABOR UNIONS: Miners LABOR UNIONS: Strikes LOCATIONS/EUROPE: France | |
| Description: | The coal mines of France are idle as 200,000 workers defy orders from President Charles DeGaulle to return to their jobs. After a hard winter coal is in short supply and the strike is aggravating this. DeGaulle threatened the minors with server penalties - heavy fines and imprisonment and the strikers expressed outrage demanding a shorter workweek and a pay boost. Throngs gather and unite against the coal mines. The closed down coal mines, camera pans showing the result of the abandonment by the coal miners. MCUS - Strikers posting strike-signes. MSOH - Striking minors march united. MS - Street level, the striking minors walking in unity. CUS - Striking coal minor holding a sign; (De Galle - Des Sous!). Shot looking down from a balcony - A back of a head, throngs gathered in the towns square. | |
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