"THE GREAT SWINDLE (1948, 32:09)
It was inevitable that during the "after the war" times that labor would find opportunity to turn to management and demand more while sacrificing less. This film goes a very long distance towards doing just so, with the intention of recruiting membership for the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers for the fight against corporate interests."
http://www.earthstation1.com/Merchant/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=E&Product_Code=WWIPIGTWDVVC&Category_Code=WWIID "demand more while sacrificing less" --- That was a "less than friendly" characterization of that film,. That tone wasn't present in their summaries of any of the other films in that list (many of which are clearly corporation productions).
The UE was a CIO union, one of it's larger and more "leftish" ones, and wasn't "of the AFL". I didn't use your flight plan with Google, but if it was identified as "of the AFL", that would have been a false identification. The CIO ("Committee for Industrial Organizations") left the American Federation of Labor (AFL) around 1937, and became the "Congress of Industrial Organizations" (keeping the same "CIO" initials). The two federations were reunited in the late 50s, and became the AFL-CIO.
All this may seem like Talmudic hair-splitting but it's necessary to understand, how the once powerful labor movement of the Thirties, became as "marginalized" as it is today. The expulsion of those "commie-led" unions were a major part of that.The CIO's "Operation Dixie" around that time, was s prime example. It TANKED, and the South became almost solidly "Right to Work" country from that time on. As a "left-libertarian" (aka: anarchist"), I have little warmth for the CPUSA. But their members were dedicated fighters for what most here at DU hold in high regard. We need as MUCH (authentic) history as we can get!
pnorman