Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 1]

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Paramount Pictures, Inc., Collection. 1951 - 1951. Motion Picture Newsreel Films. 10/1941 - 3/1957. PARAMOUNT NEWS [JUNE 1]

1946

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/99090

Summary. Part 1, Joe Louis and Billy Conn train for a boxing bout. Part 2, shows a dog show In Madison, N.J. Part 3, on labor strikes. Shows deserted tracks, empty stations, and stalled trains during the railroad strike. Pres. Truman speaks via radio denouncing union leaders Whitney and Johnston. He addresses Congress requesting authority to draft strikers into the Army. Shows John R. Steelman and labor leader Johnston. Sec. Krug and John L. Lewis meet in the Interior Bldg. in Wash., D. C., in an effort to avert a coal strike. Shows coal mines and miners.

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