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Industrial Working Conditions (1921)

1921 · Newsreel · 7 min

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INDUSTRIAL WORKING CONDITIONS Produced: 1921 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: “Do you know that --” Workers with wheelbarrows and hand carts in plant yard. “-- in America, where labor saving has progressed so rapidly, conditions are more favorable to the working man and working woman than anywhere else in the world?” “Labor saving machinery finds its way into many industries.” “In the hotel kitchen see how the dirty dishes disappear --” Dish washing machinery in operation, workers. “-- and how easily ice cream is made.” Worker pouring mixture into freezer - worker polishing ice cream freezer - liquid pouring into container - worker eating dish of ice cream. “In making garments many thicknesses are cut at the same time by means of a circular knife.” Cutting table, men and women workers, some drawing patterns on top layer of fabric, one cutting. “Much heavy work is done by automatic machinery --” “-- as in making an automobile, weighing coal and feeding fuel to the fire. The fireman adjusts the feed.” Coal pouring out of spout onto conveyor belt - coal feeding machinery in operation - workers at row of feeders. “And in coal mining.” Miners pushing car on tracks into lift, load rising - outside of mine shaft, lift rising to top of structure, car being tipped by machinery, load dumped into railroad gondola below. “Other labor saving machinery shortens the workman’s day -- and incidentally increases production.” “In…

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