1937 - International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers protest with signs at City Hall, and Mayor La Guardia comes out to address them.
1965 - Dock workers across America go on strike, tying up ports nationwide.
1934 - National Guardsmen in Toledo, Ohio use tear gas to quell a worker's strike, and violently arrest the leaders of the movement.
1966 - Commuters crowd Penn Station and highways during a New York City transit strike. Michael Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union, is thrown in civil jail.
1934 - Labor strikes in San Francisco, California and Minneapolis, Minnesota get violent as police try to quell the protestors.
1966 - Machinists on strike for better wages shut down five airlines.
1963 - Longshoremen go on strike in New York City, New York.
1941 - Police break up violent fights on the picket line at a factory in Dearborn, Michigan.
1946 - A group of movie stars including Gene Kelly and Robert Taylor arrive by plane to help arbitrate a labor dispute as members of the Screen Actors Guild. Cops arrest some at the labor protests.
1937 - Workers in different jobs across America go on strike, which sometimes gets violent (narrated in 1962).
1966 - A shipping strike hits England, halting trade and tourism.
1930 - Men and women employed as metal workers in Berlin, Germany happily return to work after a labor strike.
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ONTARIO - 1945 - Auto workers at a Ford plant in Ontario go on strike.
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CANADA - 1947 - Children in Canada go on strike to protest rising candy bar prices.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - A minister works to help migrant laborers on strike because he believes it's what Jesus would do whereas another minister has no sympathy for them.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - A minister expresses his belief that it is immoral for the government to exclude farm workers from collective bargaining rights.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - Two local ministers offer very contrasting viewpoints on a migrant labor strike.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - A minister believes that striking migrant workers probably have some good points but feels that a strike is a wrong way to go about things.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - Nationwide boycotts and a long march of farm union members help improve conditions for migrant workers.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - Cesar Chavez thanks UAW president Walter Reuther for supporting the farm laborers on strike, and their cause is further supported by church groups.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - A woman on strike with other migrant workers hopes to get higher wages so she can provide her son with a good education.
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CALIFORNIA - 1967 - After agricultural workers vote to form a union, collective bargaining improves their standard of living.
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CALIFORNIA - 1966 - Migrant workers hold an election to form a union, singing "We Shall Overcome" in Spanish.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Migrant workers come down on different sides of a strike.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Luis Valdez puts on a play for striking migrant workers which satirizes farm owners and scabs.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Migrant workers on strike applaud a skit satirizing their bosses.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Luis Valdez puts on a play for migrant workers which satirizes their bosses.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - A grower describes the benefits his farms provide for migrant workers in lieu of higher wages.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Cesar Chavez emerges as a major labor leader for migrant workers and stresses the need for food for those on strike.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Cesar Chavez explains the importance of organizing migrant workers in order to ensure legislation is passed to protect them.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Cesar Chavez explains what farm laborers are striking for.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Members of the National Farm Workers Association sing and play guitar at an indoor rally.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - A woman yells angrily at striking farm workers.
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CALIFORNIA - 1965 - Members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee picket a farm in California.
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USA - 1957 - Rivals for the presidency of a labor union put aside their competition in order to resolve strike issues in their town.
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1937 - Mayor La Guardia addresses striking members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from the steps of City Hall.
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1937 - Mayor La Guardia addresses striking members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers from the steps of City Hall.
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1937 - Workers at a clothing manufacturer go on strike in New York City.
1946 - Walter Pidgeon reads a statement on behalf of the Screen Actors Guild explaining the need for arbitration in an AFL dispute with Hollywood, with other actors including Ronald Reagan present.
1946 - Walter Pidgeon reads a statement on behalf of the Screen Actors Guild asking for arbitration in an AFL dispute, with other actors including Ronald Reagan present.
1966 - New York City's Mayor Lindsay must walk to City Hall during a transit strike, and other workers must cross the Brooklyn Bridge on foot.
1966 - Despite a transit strike, most professionals in Manhattan are able to make it to work by crowding Grand Central Station and the highways.
1941 - Fights break out on the picket line at a factory where workers are on strike in Dearborn, Michigan.
1937 - National Guardsmen direct traffic around striking steel workers during a rainstorm in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.