"Before the film begins, the American workers' greatest singer will sing the "Song of Working Men."" "SONG OF THE RIVERS" "Footage was filmed on the Amazon, Mississippi, Nile, Ganges, Yangtze," "Volga, and in many countries of the world" "Yes, there is nothing more beautiful than the labor of humankind the labor of humankind and his spiritual power" "Like a toy!" "Tomorrow will flow in like a stream" "Yesterday, there was a desert here" "We did that." "All of us together." "If it were up to me, no one in the world would go hungry" "From this forest, we made houses, shipyards, ships." "If it were up to us, no one else in the world would be homeless." "We did that." "All of us together" "If it were up to us, no one else in the world would freeze." "Workers, all of us." "We create all of the world's riches." "With our hands: yellow, white, black, and the face of humanity." "If it were up to us, all human beings would be happy." "All of them!" "Happy?" "Happy?" "I've starved all my life." "I sleep in the gutter." "I'm afraid." "I expect nothing more from life." "Among us, no one ages past 30 years" "I can live for 8 more years." "Water is precious, as is a rusty barrel." "The human being alone is cheap." "That is as cheap as a machine and which requires no care." "2/3 of human beings live poorly." "2/3 of human beings are starving." "2/3 of human beings live without dignity." "Nothing in the world is more precious than the human being." "But in 2/3 of the world, the head serves to carry loads." "In the colonies, pack animals." "In the cities, slaves of the machines." "Not their master." "Themselves machines." "That is a human being who works." "And that is a human being who has no work." "Destiny?" "Destiny has a name." "Poverty has a face." "Finally - people who laugh." "One villa for many huts." "Hardship for many brilliant people." "1,000 wretches to make an empire." "The poor's wretchedness has a face." "The workers' fate has a name." "It is:" "Trust, Cartel, Monopoly." "If business is doing poorly?" "Someone will help a little bit." "The stock market." "The exchange rates are climbing." "Aluminum, copper, steel - the exchange rates are climbing." "The poor die." "Yes, it is cold." "The Americans' Cold War." "Cold as gold." "In the gold mine of South Africa, 30,000 Negroes work." "Every worker produces on average 900 grams of gold per year." "Every worker earns an amount equal to 100 grams of gold per year." "Where do the other 800 grams go?" "Wall Street - that is where the gold goes." "Whence come the wars." "Admire the American way of life." "Day and night, there's a suicide every 24 minutes." "In God's own country, there's a crime every 17 seconds." "We're proud to be Americans." "Every 16 seconds, a work-related accident." "The world's prettiest breasts!" "Drink Coca-Cola!" "Rat out your friends to the FBI!" "Faster, always faster." "Time is money." "Beautiful woman, you have beheld the Atlantic long enough." "Take a look at what happens behind your back" "See how your best sons live." "Remember how beautiful this land was?" "Mississippi, the Indians gave it the name Father of the Waters." "Mississippi." "On its banks grow grain and cotton." "There loom factories to make money for a few, not happiness for many." "On the banks of the Mississippi, the poor work for the rich and if the poor are black, they work twice as much." "And if they protest..." "Ku Klux Klan." "The leader is McCarthy." "An American way of death." "In order to tame the Mississippi, it would take less money than the USA squanders away in one year to prepare for a war." "Old Man Mississippi is outraged." "Take away our cattle and even our land." "Chase the mob that breaks out on us year after year, straight to hell." "We, whose fields disappeared " "Nothing will be forgiven there " "When his masters have disappeared," "We will tame him." "Ganges." "The native people of India call it Mother." "On the banks of the Ganges, one harvests two times per year." "On its banks, the English tycoons built their supply stores 200 years ago." "On the banks of the Ganges:" "dead people!" "Starving people every day." "They starve under English rule, like their parents and grandparents." "200 years under foreign rule." "200 years of famines." "400 harvests." "Two every year so the banking tycoons in London and New York never lose their surplus." "But a land that created a high culture cannot always become enslaved." "The Ganges has become a river of the Indian people." "There are no more foreign soldiers in Calcutta." "But there are still foreign banks." "And foreign masters." "On the banks of the Ganges, the Indian worker weaves, but he does not weave for himself." "But the time of the great harvest will come." "Our Ganges flows in India" "And where it flows past, there reigns fruitfulness" "And where it flows past, there reigns hunger" "But it certainly can't remain so for all time." "We, the ones who planted the rice fields" "And watered the valley," "Know that the day is already near" "When our feast will come." "5,000 years ago, the Egyptians named the Nile the Father of the Gods." "Amongst the people there, the oldest culture grew." "Back in their time, they said: "Every day, one wakes up early - to suffer."" "Today the plowman still gets up early." "The same motion," "the same toil." "What do you see, Pharaoh?" ""People who plant just as my slaves planted."" "What do you see, Sphinx?" ""People plagued as they were during my time."" "On the banks of the Nile, the worker is up early, to suffer." "At Aswan, the British engineers built a mighty dam 50 years ago." "But the precipitator rises before dawn." "Nothing makes the earth more fertile, than a stream's water and people's sweat." "He harvests the cotton." "In London, Amsterdam, New York, they reap the benefits." "It's thanks to struggles that the Nile again becomes an Egyptian river." "The cotton kings want to station soldiers on Egyptian soil." "They want their aircraft carriers sent into Egyptian waters." "The Nile does not flow backwards and neither does its history." "But even still, the cotton kings are the rulers in Cairo." "Even still they are the rulers of the factories." "On the banks of the Nile, the workers are up early to suffer." "They seem obedient." "They seem peaceful." "Peaceful, like their Nile." "Our Nile flows in Egypt" "Temples and palaces face it" "And the bondage is six thousand years old" "Yet it probably will not get much older." "We, the ones who build the houses" "And piled stone upon stone" "Know that the day is not far off" "That we will move in." "Indonesia fought successfully for its independence." "Egypt still fights for it." "But..." "Whites still reign over 210 million people of color." "Cape Town." "Exports: cocoa, coffee, rubber." "Exports: wood, spices, peanuts." "One exports gold, diamonds, uranium." "Blacks only." "Reserved for whites." "The sun of the occidental culture shines on the colonial world." "Sicknesses desolate the continent." "English Nigeria: half of the children die before reaching the age of 5." "French Colonial Africa:" "95% of children without school." "In the salt desert, many die of thirst." "The foreign boss." "The foreign overseer." "That cannot continue." "Friends, you are workers." "You have the right to machines" "To relaxation." "You have the right to happiness!" "Listen to the World Federation of Trade Unions (WGB), friends!" "Your standards of living become more and more unbearable." "It is possible to bring an end to colonial slavery." "We live in different lands, but we have common interests because we're brothers in class." "For 16 hours of work a day." "First learn how to add, savage!" "Our labor union has 45,000 members at the end of the month." "We'd better concentrate on those not yet unionized." "All labor union groups are mobilized for it." " I need new material." " We already distributed everything." "Everyone in the bush is talking about it." "We'll gather everyone together." "The WGB is organizing a big meeting." "The entire world will know how we live." "That we're beaten at work." "That we're forced into military service." "That we need tractors, and machines." "Schools and hospitals." "Who is favor of electing a delegate to the convention?" "They come from everywhere." "The workers change everything when they assemble, when they unite." "Long live the great meeting of the workers!" "Long live the WGB!" "The executive committee of the WGB in Vienna." "Here, leaders of the working men of all nations meet:" "Giuseppe di Vittoria, Louis Saillant," "Nikolai Schwernik, Lu Mi Ni," "Lombardo Tornida." "To the banks of the Ganges, comes a request from the WGB." "The general secretary of the Indian labor union Gange." "Send your best to the convention." "Your best workers of Indonesia." "Workers of Japan." "This assembly will be your convention." "Your convention, workers of Algeria." "The secretary of the Algerian labor union Lak Kan Almedi." "We will be your convention, dock workers of Algiers." "And your convention, miners of the ore mines of Mijana." "This is Kali." "He talks about the unity of the workers." "He will report on the hardship of young agricultural workers." "Yours." "Officials denied him his passport." "Dock workers from Liverpool." "Union members have left the WGB, but the convention is open to all workers." "Rick Kleiden is going to the convention." "Vietnam." "It is your convention, fighters for liberty." "Oede, Liavre. "When I consider that we only have 2 months left and"" ""that there are still workers among us who have heard nothing of our convention..."" ""There - take that."" ""It concerns you personally."" ""I suggest we send the best of us to the convention."" "Colleague Oede." "In Paris, Arma Kadi - office of his metal workers labor union" "The convention must discuss the problem of unemployed youth." "Warsaw:" "Construction worker Krull." ""I will say at the convention there is no longer a problem"" "of unemployment for the Polish." "Australia: "We will encounter miners from all nations at the convention."" "Italy:" ""I will ask the Chinese how they did it"" ""when they distributed the land to the agricultural workers."" "Czechoslovakia: if only we could all go there." "GDR:" "Miner Sepp Zapp of the Karl-Liebknecht Shaft." ""We'll have fun, too." "Among buddies one always finds a common language."" ""Greet all of us, especially our French buddies, and give them a memento."" "Hamburg:" ""I ask myself whether all of that is known overseas."" "That's exactly why you go to the convention." "You tell them." "Romania:" ""Don't forget to greet the delegates - from Vietnam, from France,"" "from all of Germany, the workers from all nations." "VIENNA" "On the banks of the Danube, Vienna." "Workers, all of them, with their hands - black, white, yellow hands - who daily change the face of the globe and that of the human being." "Workers have come here from everywhere in order to listen, to discuss and make a common decree, which they will do." "Di Vittoria opens the convention." "In the history of the movement, there has never been such a powerful and all-encompassing convention." "5 continents are represented by the men and women of the convention, 79 countries, more than 80 million workers." "The general secretary of the WGB, Louis Saillant, takes the podium:" ""Wherever workers unite in action, they are victorious."" ""For that reason the WGB championed a deciding principle, which is:"" ""In everything and for everything, the unity of the workers is indispensable!"" "All whom we know are there." "Ode, delegate of the workers in Liavre." "Krull, delegate of the construction workers in Warsaw." "Kadi, the miner from the iron mines of Algeria." "Arma Kadi, the metal worker from Paris." "The discussion begins:" "Lu Ni Mi speaks in the name of the 10 million union workers of China." "Gaston Mar Muzu, one of the oldest French workers' leaders and one of the most beloved - our Gaston!" "Gange, speaker for the union workers of India." "Abdul lai Dialu, representative of the African workers." "Grusalyevich, secretary of the union workers of Poland." "Rick Kleiden speaks about the the dock workers of Liverpool." "Lak Kak Dul about the struggles of Algeria's dock workers." "The entire world passes across this forum." "The world of labor." "The world of the workers." "Everyone speaks his language." "And everyone understands each other." "The president of the central office of the Soviet labor union, Nikolai Schwerni." ""The union workers of the Soviet Union extend their brotherly hands"" ""to the workers of the United States, the workers of Great Britain,"" ""Japan, the Scandinavian countries, West Germany."" "They extend their brotherly hands to the workers of all nations." "They call for them to unite in the battle against their vital interests, for democracy, for peace in the entire world." "Di Vittoria, Italian chairman of the WGB, speaks of unity." "He speaks of unity, the battle, and the rights of unions and for freedom." ""By our work schedule in Italy, we have proven"" ""that it is possible to improve the life of the entire population,"" ""while at the same time providing work and food to the 2 million unemployed."" "I would like for you to share this enthusiasm which our workers and, indeed, all levels of the population have for this our proposal." "Just sitting in the canteen lets one travel through the world." "They imagine a synthetic sea of the Don Canal." ""We will do that some day with the Amazon."" ""The Polish workers know peace, the highest commodity of humankind."" ""What pulls Americans into Iran is the inviting scent of our crude oil."" ""The Brazilian police arrested my son."" ""Him and 5 of his school friends."" ""This is my boy, 15 years old."" ""Mine is 14."" ""The American United Fruit seized the best land of Guatemala."" ""But our people fight for the land that belongs to them."" ""Korea is being built back up."" ""Only rubble remained of our capital city Pyongyang,"" ""like in Germany."" ""We first removed the debris with our hands."" ""Like us."" ""Machines in Cameroon?" "These are our only machines."" "The workers recognize by their hands whether they are from Indonesia or Holland." "They have a common language." "It is just as difficult to earn one's bread in Europe as it is his rice in Asia." "Miner." "Miner." "All of them miners." "Even the German fellow traveler travels to a French village." "Colleague Defort - never will war happen again between our peoples." "Never again, Colleague Zapp." "The secretary of the central labor unions of Indonesia takes the floor." "The labor unions in the colonial lands are relentlessly gaining more power." "The battle for national independence is becoming stronger and stronger." "Workers of the industrialized nations, we must fight against the common enemy." "Listen to the voices of the oppressed peoples." "Panama" " American colony." "Kuwait Ð British colony." "Cameroon Ð French colony." "Iran, Burma Ð with a lightning quick insurgency" "Guatemala, Vietnam, Korea." "The Soviet delegate, Leonid Solovyov, representative of the professional department of the WGB." "Voveda speaks on the behalf of the metal workers of all nations." "Everyone reports about his work and each experience is beneficial to all." "Canada, Romania, Japan, Czechoslovakia," "Holland, Austria, GDR Ð Herbert Warnke." "Kai Falk, president of a Swedish labor union not a member of the WGB." "The forum is open to all and the Soviet metal worker, Michael Privalov, listens to each with the same attentiveness." "The leader of the independent labor union of Chile, Cassanova, and the oil worker Ronda of Venezuela." "The general secretary of the French labor unions Alain L. comes from prison" "How have most of the French people struggled against the war in Vietnam?" "Workers of France, workers of Vietnam." "One of the largest labor unions of Indonesia" " Sogreb - is now WGB." "The labor unions of Guatemala, the laborers of Guinea and 29 other labor unions are becoming members of the WGB." "The Viennese population welcomes the convention." "Last session." "The convention attends to the reports of the WGB." "For prosperity." "For workers' rights." "For freedom." "Against the contracts of Bonn and Paris." "For peace." "For peace." "Long live the inseparable unity of the workers of the entire world." "For freedom, national independence, bread, and peace." "Our victory will be the victory of all humankind." "Unity!" "Peace!" "After the convention." "Europe." "Asia." "Australia." "And then Vittoria said that the workers can live without the billionaires, but the billionaires still haven't been able to live without the workers." "Italy:" ""There were representatives from nations I had never heard of at the convention."" ""But when they spoke, I thought they were speaking about our factory." "Guatemala: "At the convention I felt how strong the workers and farmers are."" ""Even stronger than North American United Fruit."" "Albania:" ""The delegates of Guatemala told me they'll seize freedom just as we did."" "Korea:" ""All together."" "Warsaw:" ""We have friends in all nations of the world."" ""The capitol of Korea does not remind you of anything?"" ""I promised to send them shots from Warsaw."" "Sweden:" ""You will see as if you yourself were at the convention."" "North Africa:" ""We were taught that when we want to win a strike, we must fight together."" "Everyone is in agreement." ""My little ones should finally have enough to eat."" ""We cannot continue to live like this."" ""Dear friends, what does a human being need to live?" "Bread!" "Bread!"" "The human being must eat to live." "Hunger march in Algeria." "2/3 of humankind is poorly nourished." "2/3 of humankind is poorly clothed." "They cannot continue to live this way." "Struggle in England, 1954." ""We demand a 15% raise in wages." "From one end of the country to the other"" " three million people on strike." "Stay together."" "The human being must eat to live." "France 1947." "Price of bread:" "F 10.50" "Today:" "F 50.00" "West Germany:" "1,200,000 unemployed." "There is enough there!" "The human being must struggle to live." "All together!" "Italy:" "Lock-outs." "But the workers occupied the factories and worked." "For their bread." "The human being must fight for the bread which belongs to him." "Algeria:" "Nak Kak Kavedi has returned from Vienna." ""Colleagues, we must unite ourselves to fight!" "Unite!"" ""We must organize ourselves."" ""The marches of the labor union are important."" ""Organize."" "His first membership card to the labor union." "French Sudan:" "Labor union central." "We must fight for the right to organize." "We will not let it be taken away from us." "Dock workers in France:" ""Our labor union decides on the distribution of labor."" "The Japanese railroad workers strike." "Everyone shall know it." "The leaders of the labor union are on hunger strike." "One cannot continue to live this way." "The United States:" "Yesterday the labor union decided about the sailors' wages." "Today the Hartley Law has been abolished by the workers." "One doesn't even have the right to strike." "Our leaders have sold us out." "Despite the leaders - for bread and freedom!" "The combatants are to be silenced." "In the United States, France, North Africa, Colonial Africa, in Cuba, Honduras, in Iraq, Pakistan," "in Greece, in Turkey, in Spain." "France:" "In Brest, the police killed the construction worker Eduard Nasi." "Italy:" "In Modena, the police murdered 6 strikers:" "Arturo Capelli, Roverto Rovati," "Angelo Apiani," "Venzel Versani," "Arturo Malagoni," "Ennio Garaniani, 21 years old." "France:" "General Facion, the general of the labor union, could not participate in the convention." "He was unlawfully pursued." "They had to drop the case." "Cuba:" "The leader of the labor unions, Pe–a, is freed from prison." "Lucesi, Brazilian labor union head, tells about the convention and the WGB." "Marseille." "Liberated." "Italy:" "Friends, you have won because you were united." "Unity in the battle for our rights." "Unity in the battle for our bread." "Unity in the battle of all in cities and on the land." "Unity in the Italian villages." "Agricultural workers, farmers without land, farmers without bread, but not without spirit." "You, the ones who survey this land that the proprietors have abandoned." "Survey this Italian land, and survey it well." "Survey it well, farmers in Sudan." "Distribute this land with care, the land that the French colonists stole from you and that was ripped away from you by your labor union." "Farmers in Vietnam who have soaked your land with your sweat, as if it were not your own." "You who have soaked it with your blood have conquered it again." "Distribute it fairly, for it belongs to you." "Farmers in Poland who cannot even read." "You survey this land with love, which was given to you by your government." "Since the land belongs to the farmers who work it." "Land in China." "Farmers in China." "Yesterday they owned everything." "Yesterday they owned nothing." "Farmers in Chin:" "look out across the land with the eyes of the master, because you are the masters." "On the banks of the Yangtze, no one used to count either the dead or the living." "So disposable was the human being." "For 1,000 years, the Yangtze brought hunger, sickness and despair." ""Now the stream belongs to us."" ""The stream must do what we want."" "All together!" "With our bare hands if necessary." "All together!" "When you are old you can say:" "I was there." "And Soviet machines were there." "And the river obeys." "Those are the masters of the rivers and harvests." "Those are the masters." "Those are the masters." "Now the Yangtze carries trucks from Gorki, carrying tractors from Stalingrad into the country like a toy." "Yesterday it was a desert here." "On the banks of the Yangtze, there grow new factories." "On the banks of the Yangtze beam the labor unions' vacation homes." "600 million live in the new China." "They have counted themselves for the first time, for nothing on the Yangtze is more precious than the human being." "Our Yangtze!" "Our China!" "Where it flows is all ours all the way to the sea." "Where it flows, people go happily to work." "Even it is happily at work." "And it was not always ours." "A very bitter battle was necessary." "The flag flew before the shovel." "And it is red." "The Caspian Sea." "Tethers on the sea for two months." "In the Soviet Union, the human being is never abandoned." "The swimming movie theater has visitors from all nations." "Friends." "Unity." "Peace." "The Black Sea" "Vacation home for the Soviet workers." "Hungary:" "This is how the day begins." "The child is happy and the woman is free." "Romania:" "This is how life begins." "Poland." "Czechoslovakia." "In Bulgaria." "French West Africa:" "These children are special, for out of 100 children, 97 cannot read." "Whoever learns a lot is dangerous to the colonial rulers." "The People's Republic of Mongolia:" "The descendents of Genghis Khan." "Out of 100 children, 100 learn to read, for here there are no longer colonial rulers." "From the Elbe to the still ocean, trade schools for apprentices." "From the Elbe to the still ocean, luxury for the workers." "From the Elbe to the still ocean, houses for the workers" " Berlin," "Warsaw," "Moscow," "cities in Siberia," "Kuznetsk" "The metal worker, Rivalov, delegate of the convention:" ""I learned from him that unity is called 'toi-so' in Japanese."" "Workers?" "Naturally!" "Workers with spiritual power." "Drafter of a book about steel, the Soviet worker, Michael Rivalov." "The Russians call her mother." "Mother Volga." "Stalingrad." "With white houses." "This is how the world got to know you." "And admired you." "Stalingrad!" "Here, streams of human beings are friends." "Here they do things together." "Yesterday there was a desert here." "Out of the desert emerged a sea." "On the banks of the Volga, the human being is ruler of the machines." "On the banks of the Volga, the human being no longer struggles for bread that belongs to him." "The bread belongs to him." "We have done everything." "All together." "On the banks of the Volga," "To whom does the crude oil belong?" "Standard Oil!" "Our Amazon flows unquestionably." "In Brazil, but belongs to the USA." "It is big and powerful and does work" "For the rulers it never saw." "But one day, not far from now" "We have sworn to ourselves" "It will do its work for us" "Who were born here." "Life: good like bread." "And beautiful like roses." "Mother Volga, you beloved!" "Lenin was your son." "He will not torch for long." "And the tractor silences the slave song" "And now drones the turbine's song." "Stalingrad our city is called" "And the world enemy falls here." "You, wherever you might meet him" "Beat him as we do." "The Amazon." "The Indians gave it the name "The Spoiler of Boats."" "These hands could put together a watch or build a turbine." "But in the place of this fire, history has slept for 20,000 years." "On the banks of the Amazon, the Brazilian workers have cleared land that will belong to them." "On the banks of the Amazon, a tycoon from New York or New Jersey." "On the banks of the Amazon, the scent of crude oil." "To pump Brazilian crude oil into the tanks of Standard Oil." "To further impede the wheel of history." "To delay the hands of laborers changing the face of the globe and the face of humankind?" "Happy, Mr. Dollars?" "To Korea, Vietnam." "Report on the convention of the WGB." "The breath of national independence from the Tonkin Gulf to the Suez Canal." "Latin America." "Guatemala." "Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia." "The storm walls from the Gulf of Mexico to Tierra del Fuego." "Kenya, Africa." "Japan." "American Democracy." "The storm rises up." "West Germany." ""The Americans arm the Nazi Generals, so they can re-ignite the torches"" "French, the flag." "American, the command." "French, the cannon powder." "American, the atom cannon." "He who sows wind will reap storm." "The labor union leaders of France and the GDR, against the European Defense Union (EVG)." "European convention organized by the WGB, against the EVG." "A French mining village." ""And at the convention, my German buddy said to me"" ""that there will never be war between our peoples."" "A German mining village." ""And the French fellow said to me:" "Never again!"" "Democratic sector of Berlin:" ""Never again!"" "West Germany:" "Peace is high treason here, and should the people demonstrate..." "He who sows wind..." "Austria." "France." "He who sows wind reaps storm." "For peace, bread, and national independence." "And the key to success is unity of action." "Not only unity, unity of action." "Do you know, colleagues, what that means: unity of action?" "French farmers." "American politics of government make you poor." "Out of protest, they lock down the streets of France for one day." "All together." "Italy, in Florence, by Pignone, 2,000 laid off workers occupy their factory for 49 days." "All union workers united." "The letters of dismissal burned." "The management forced to take on work again." "The entire city supported the action." "All together." "In the shadow of the Statue of Liberty." "Her best defenders." "You feel alone, American friends." "And your placards call for solidarity." "Do you know that at the same hour on the other side of the world, in Japan..." "Do you know that workers are never alone?" "You know that nothing resists you when you stand united." "There are only 7 of you?" "With them is the entire Sydney Harbor." "Only a dozen?" "With them is all of black Africa." "And even if they only number a dozen." "It is enough that they are united." "For the strike - all united." "On strike - all together." "There were only 7 of you in Sydney, then 700, then 7,000..." "Panic goes through the stock market." "In Paris, in a factory:" "Unanimous." "And the hand which voted for the strike executes the strike." "The storm is brewing." "Unity is called "Unite" in France." ""Toi-son" in Japan," ""Ikanigi" in Iran." ""Unita" in Italy." "But in all nations unity means victory!" "Workers, it is enough that you want it." "And you block the path of war." "You ensure yourselves a life in peace." "It is enough that you want it, and no more hunger in the world." "Workers, all of you, you create the riches of the world with your black, white, yellow hands on the banks of the Mississippi and the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon, the Yangtze and the Volga." "On the banks of all streams, you change the face of the globe" "and the face of humankind." "Unity." "Peace." "Friends, brothers, sisters!" "If you want it, human beings can be happy!" "Fansubs by trilobyte333 for KG." "August 2011."