This documentary was made for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers (ACWA) as part of their 50th anniversary celebration. The union was formed in the early 1900s by immigrant workers--Jewish, Italian, Eastern European, etc. The movie documents their early efforts to win a union, the events of the Depression and the New Deal, World War II. It ends with the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, linking the struggles of the union with those of the civil rights movement. Millard Lampell made the move (he had been blacklisted.) Y.A. "Yip" Harburg (over the rainbow) wrote some original music. The copies out there are mostly circulating in beat-up copies of copies of VCR tapes. Excellent documentary, using a lot of Brechtian montage. Someone really needs to restore this movie. I show it to my graduate students. Dr. James H. Williams
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