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For the Record (1946)

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For the Record (1946)
 Sponsor: Unknown. Production Co.: Public Affairs Films. Director: Julian Roffman. Writer/Editor: Sidney Meyers. Music: Pete Seeger. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 18 minutes.

Pro-labor film blasting the greed and cunning of the “big boys” in government and in the National Association of Manufacturers who oppose organized labor. For the Record sees strikes as an important way to protect worker interests and explains how collective-bargaining gains were lost through the Taft-Hartley Act.

Resources
Educational Film Guide (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1948), 270.