| Strike Rally & Police Brutality in South Africa, c. 1910-1920s | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6238 |
| Catalog #: | 368849 | |
| Clip Number: | 368849-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | ON 380 G | |
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| Location: | South Africa | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | LABOR UNIONS: Strikes | |
| Description: | Labor unions; strikes. Crowd watching protest/strike march; South Africa; possibly 1914? Looking over heads of spectators at workers marching; holding up banner "Carpenters and Joiners". Shot from above looking down at crowd. w/ demonstration in progress; men on platform agitating crowd. Police on horseback scatter crowd; waving clubs and trampling people (or coming close). Police brutality.. Police riding through street; people running. Night view of crowd? large banner "No Surrender". Pan across wreckage from riot. Some people walking around; stepping through rubble. Pan on deserted workplace; huge vats for storage of something or other; long building etc; 2 men walking across yard. (See also strike story on 6236 at 01.01.42.17.) Rallies. | |
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