Also focuses on the Great Migration of Black Southerners to the urban North. Labor's Turning Point . Documentary on the dramatic 1934 Teamsters strike in Minneapolis. Thousands of truckers and vigilantes battle for control of the streets. Much of the movie focuses on the struggle to build solidarity amongst native-born whites, immigrant Italians, and Southern blacks.
Union solidarity fails against company violence.
Short speech by Canadian labor politician on a mythical land where mice keep electing cats of various shades and hues to rule them until they wise up. Norma Rae . Good hollywood account of organizing a Southern textile mill in the 1960s. Kind of makes you nostalgic for the days when organizing industrial workers was legal. Salt of the Earth .