Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, politician Al Smith campaigns for charity in NY City
[Shaky video throughout] Title card: "Happy Warrior whoops it up for charity - Al Smith rivals Caruso in drive to help jobless and NY Infirmary for Women and Children" / former NY Gov. Al Smith, on sidewalk in front of grocery store,...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Placer miner supports plan to grubstake jobless people as placer miners, explains how to pan for gold
Title card: "How to pan gold!" / title card: "Editor's note: Favoring Pathe News' plan to grubstake jobless which is now before a Senate Committee, Captain Jim Moore, old-time placer miner, explains a simple method of panning gold for a...
Press Association
Unemployment rate eases but payrolled workers total drops
The number of workers on UK payrolls fell for the first time in four months in March, but job vacancies surged as businesses prepared to reopen after lockdown, official figures have shown.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Socialist candidate Norman Thomas urges support for change
Title card: "Norman Thomas Makes Final Plea Directly to You - Socialist candidate for President winds up campaign in New York" / SOT Thomas speaking behind desk asking voters do they want choice between tweedledee and tweedledum or...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Wagner wants reelection; Smith wants Democratic legislature
Title card: "Senator Wagner Asks Your Vote for Re-Election" / Sen. Robert F. Wagner speaking behind desk / CU Wagner saying his main focus is unemployment and end to Prohibition / title card: "Al Smith gives Wagner his enthusiastic...
Getty Images
MS Group of job applicants waiting to be called into meeting / Portland, Oregon, USA
MS Group of job applicants waiting to be called into meeting / Portland, Oregon, USA
Sky News
Steel smelting factory furnaces
CLEAN: Interior shots of a metal powders factory's steel smelting hall with glowing furnaces on November 07, 2016 in Johnstown, PA.
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Stage performers put on benefit show in Paris for unemployed actors
Title card: "Paris stage stars frolic for charity, Stylish stouts and comic singer put on open air benefit show to help unemployed French actors" / large man in cowboy outfit sitting on horse blowing bugle / men crawling through barrel...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Official speaking to camera at National Railway Labor Conference in US during Great Depression
Official sitting at desk reading statement with four officials standing behind him; he explains that conference is meeting with committee of railroad presidents and that purpose of conference is to discuss solutions to widespread...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Civil disobedience campaign continues in Diwaniyah in southern Iraq
Protesters hang banners saying in Arabic Closed by order of the people in front of official buildings in the southern city of Diwaniyah as part of a campaign of civil disobedience against the Iraqi government which the demonstrators...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Tennis champ Helen Wills Moody urges help for the unemployed
Title card: "Helen Wills Moody! Tennis champion in first message from scene urges everybody to help jobless" / MCU interview with tennis champion Moody on jobs versus charity / Note: exact day not known
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, politician Newton D Baker speaks at Children's Aid Society, organization for young unemployed men, in NY City
Title card: "200,000 boys roaming US - Newton D. Baker points out needs in talk at Children's Aid Society in New York City" / while eating meal with young men at table, Baker stands and begins speaking to them / closer shot of Baker...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
During Great Depression, Labor Secretary Frances Perkins testifies before Congressional Committee in Washington, DC
Title card: "First madam secretary pleads for labor army!" / title card: "Editor's note: For first time in history, a woman Cabinet officer speaks for the Government at a Congressional Hearing. These intimate glimpses show Miss Frances...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Progressive Amos Pinchot touts Pathe News' grubstake plan for unemployed to pan for gold
Title card: "AMOS PINCHOT URGES PLAN TO PAN GOLD!" / dissolve to Title card: "Gold and employment are the keys to national recovery. Supplementing the NRA, the Pathe News grubstake plan originated by Randolph Walker offers thousands a...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Distillery expands and creates jobs after Prohibition repeal
Title card: "Repeal Booms Business" / various shots distilling plant / various shots men working at building construction site / bricklayers at work / construction workers on site, building structure erected / men and women going to work...
Sherman Grinberg Film Library
Author Upton Sinclair speaks to camera in Pasadena while running for governor of California as Democratic candidate
Title card: "Upton Sinclair explains his 'epic plan'" / close shot of gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair standing outdoors speaking to camera explaining his plan to end unemployment in state and affirming his support of New Deal and...
Hearst Metrotone News
A newspaper headline reads Depression Cripples U.S, and a man wears an unemployed sandwich board.
A newspaper headline reads Depression Cripples U.S, and a man wears an unemployed sandwich board.
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : British official unemployment rate edges u
Britain's unemployment rate edged up to 7.2 percent in the quarter to December, official data showed on Wednesday, easing pressure on the Bank of England to raise interest rates CLEAN : British official unemployment rate edges u on...