Sponsored Films

And Women Must Weep (1962)
Sponsor: National Right to Work Committee. Production Co.: Gentron Productions. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 25 minutes.

Anti-union film dramatizing a strike staged by the International Association of Machinists in Princeton, Indiana, in 1956–57.

Note: The film was based on a fictionalized pamphlet by Rev. Edward Greenfield, an anti-strike movement leader who worked as a propagandist for a right-to-work organization in California. And Women Must Weep was used to counter union organizing campaigns; in 1963, the National Labor Relations Board nullified a union representation election because the film was shown beforehand. The IAM answered with Anatomy of a Lie.

Resources
George Bliss, “NLRB Election Upset Because of Use of Film,” Chicago Tribune, May 9, 1963, A1; Joseph A. Pichler and H. Gordon Fitch, “And Women Must Weep: The NLRB as Film Critic,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 28 (April 1975): 395–410; Robert G. Rodden, The Fighting Machinists: A Century of Struggle (Washington, DC: Kelly Press, 1984), chap. 60.