"[Narrator] Over this ocean... 1607,Jamestown... 1620, Plymouth Rock... this way we came." "We, the people." "We crossed the ocean toward an unknown land." "Here was America- the sea, the sky and the continent." "We came in search of freedom... but there were dangers in the deep woods and nowhere to put in a plow." "Our only roads were the flooded rivers." "We were alone." "But we took hold." "Out of oak and pine we built a house, a church, a watchtower." "We crossed the first hills... and there were mountains beyond." "We cleared a field and built our first settlements." "But every winter brought death- cold months and little food- and many died of fever." "We planted our bodies and our seeds in these fields... and there grew up a colony of free citizens." "Here on this stony seacoast... we founded liberty." "We built liberty into the beams of our houses." "We made states in the green wilderness " "Virginia, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Carolina." "We, the plain people... plowman and pioneer... lived and fought and dreamed a new kind of nation... a new kind oflife... under a new sky... free of all tyranny." "Lexington, Valley Forge, Yorktown." "1776" " We had to defend our freedom with arms." " [Thunder Rumbling]" " Independence." "In the midst ofbattle... we declared our independence... taking courage from the greatness of our country." "These are the times that try men's souls." "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered." "We fought a seven-year war." "Our freedom took shape." "We spoke our deepest needs through the lips ofheroes." ""We hold these truths to be self-evident... that all men are created equal"" "The voice of Thomas Jefferson" ""that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..." ""that among them are life, liberty... and the pursuit ofhappiness. "" "And so we proclaimed a new world." "In this brotherhood America began... one nation indivisible... with liberty and justice for all- the immigrant, hungry for bread and for liberty... the brave and the persecuted... the pioneer in the Kentucky forest." "We established a Bill of Rights... and led by Lincoln we fought a Civil War... to extend those rights to the whole people." "Slavery shall not exist." "No law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble." "In the name ofliberty... we opened the roads to the west." "We crossed the blue Alleghenies... the Ohio, the Mississippi... the last ranges of the Rockies." "We took freedom with us." "More than a word... it was an ax to clear the continent." "New resources, new power." "We came in millions toward the machine." "We forged wheels out of coal, out of iron ore, out of rushing water- wheels for a new country." "America growing." "Machines and people." "Three million, 100 million, 130 million." "From every country in the world we came toward freedom... toward life, liberty, all men created equal and the pursuit ofhappiness." "The old words, the historic documents - we built them into bridges and dynamos and concrete cities." "Freedom, happiness - not always a fact... but always a shining hope." "Freedom -a way ofliving and oflooking at life." "The frontiersman part of it... and the cowboy part of it... and the steel rigger and the sailor." "Democracy-fought for and built into the steel girders of America." "We struggled 300 years and took freedom as our inheritance." "More than a dream, more than a document... the Bill of Rights meant a way oflife... a way oflife for all Americans... for a Michigan farmer working his own land." "Hey, Pop!" "Hey, Popl" "Whoa!" " Some men want to see you, Popl" " Who wants to see your pop?" "The feed man?" " Huh?" " [Laughing]" " Well, who is it?" " Some men in a big, new car." "Mom says to come right away." "Hey, Popl" "One man's got a diamond on his finger." "As shiny as anything!" "You oughta see!" "You stay with the horses." "I never saw them before." "They wanted to know if you were Mr. Hill." "Can't deny that." "Then they asked me if you were the Mr. Hill that spoke up at the farmers meeting last night... and I said, " You bet!"" "Fred?" "Invite 'em in for a bite." "[No Audible Dialogue]" "Fred!" "Fred?" "Fred!" "Fred!" "Is that you, Fred?" "[Clucking]" "[Narrator] A man's farm invaded... his liberty attacked." "The right of free speech denied to an American." "It happened in Custer, Michigan, September 1934." ""Never heard of it." People never heard of it." "Twenty miles down the river, people in the next town going their own way... taking the Bill of Rights for granted... unaware of what happened to one man far away." "People in American towns... busy with work, children and what's for supper." "In Hartford or Troy or Dallas." "Or Cleveland, Ohio, a spring day in 1936." "[Laughing]" "♪♪ [Humming]" "Mister." "Will you let me in, mister?" "It's late." "[Knocking Continues]" "[Screams]" "[Narrator] Again." "It happened again." "They say he was a union man." "Nothing in the newspapers." "Wasn't on the radio." "Don't understand it." "New York, Chicago, Cleveland..." "Fort Smith, Arkansas." "A country church used as a meeting place by Negro and white sharecroppers." "It was midsummer, 1936." "They wanted 10 cents more for their cotton... just enough to live on." "They held a meeting." "The sheriff deputized 15 men." " [People Chattering] - [Gavel Banging]" " [Man] Cover the back doorl - [Shouting, Chattering]" "Get him!" " [Man #1] There he goesl - [Man #2] Head him off!" "Head him off!" " Get down!" " Keep going." "Over this way." "[Gunshots]" "[Men Continue Shouting]" "[Man] Come onl Come onl Come onl" "That's himl Therel" " [Gunshot] - [Man] I shot himl" "[Dogs Barking]" "[Man Shouting]" " [Man Continues Shouting] - [Dogs Continue Barking]" "[Man] Over herel" "♪♪ [Chorus Vocalizing]" "♪♪ [Vocalizing Continues]" "[Cracks]" "[Man] ♪ The morning and the evening sun ♪" "♪ And summer going all ahead ♪" "♪ The dusty and the burnin'sun ♪" "♪ Over my head ♪" "♪ Burnin'sun ♪" "♪ Go down ♪" "♪ Goin'♪" "♪ Down ♪" "♪♪ [Vocalizing Continues]" "♪ Been workin'on the land ♪" "♪ So long ♪" "♪ I know it like it was ♪" "♪ My own ♪" "♪ Workin'on ♪" "♪ When I'm weak ♪" "♪ Workin'on ♪" "♪ When I'm strong ♪" "♪ Workin'all ♪" "♪ Summer long ♪" "♪♪ [Vocalizing Continues]" "♪ The morning and the evening sun ♪" "♪ And summer going all-♪♪" "[Gunshot]" "[Gunshots]" "[Gunshot]" "[Narrator] The South in July." "Cotton country." "Two men dead on a road in Arkansas." "A road far away." "Another valley." "The long afternoon kept moving across America." "Getting cool." "Suppertime." "Few knew, and few remembered... the sudden acts of a hidden enemy... the rights of plain Americans destroyed." "Darkness blotted out the violence of the day- the sharecroppers hunted in the Arkansas swamp... the organizer killed in a rooming house... the farmer struck down on his own farm - and night erased them all... for 130 million Americans." "Another day began." "[Man] ♪ Open the window, hear it coming ♪" "♪ Here's another new day ♪" "♪ Everyday day comin'up the avenue ♪" "♪ Morning on wheels ♪" "♪ American day ♪" "[Narrator] It was Thursday morning in a thousand places." "Friday morning." "Or Monday morning." "[Man] ♪ Lift up the window What's for today ♪" "♪ May be hot, but probably cool ♪" "♪ No special day but turning out wonderful ♪" "♪ Morning on wheels ♪" "♪ American day ♪" "[Narrator] These are the ones... the innocent ones." "Never hurt anyone." "Never could." "Little people unaware of powerful enemies." "Little people in the towns, the suburbs, the smoky cities." "Was America waking up?" "Was every day in the year." "The eyes of children watching a bright world." "Sunlight in the house." "And what's for breakfast?" "The faces of morning... multiplied by a million." "A million streets waiting for the touch of people." "Millions of ordinary people... who take the Bill of Rights for granted." "[Man] ♪ Early this morning I heard that whistle ♪" "♪ Wake up, brother Wake up ♪" "♪ Gonna eat my breakfast with the sun in the window ♪" "♪ Saying hello ♪" "♪ A wonderful day ♪" "♪ Friday, Tuesday ♪" "♪ Early morning ♪" "♪ Weekday, workday ♪" "♪ Any morning ♪" "♪ Early this morning I heard that whistle ♪" "Yoo-hoo, brotherl ♪ Yoo-hoo ♪" "♪ Got a place to go to and I guess I'd better hurry ♪" "♪ Morning on wheels ♪" "♪ American day ♪♪" "[Narrator] Today and every day... going in pursuit ofhappiness... going to work, pushing forward to a fuller life." "Here was the Bill of Rights again, the feeling of security... of faith without words - the simple rhythm of millions of people going every day... to bring the machines to life." "[Whistle Blowing]" "Abundance." "Take the abundance of it." "The things that are planned and made and delivered- milk and shoes and iron and gasoline... and overcoats and kitchen chairs." "Things we need every day in the week made by the people." "Who else?" "Proud of our hands and our skill... and a quick eye... and the strength in our backs when we come to need it." "Making locomotives and airplanes... tanks and kilowatt hours." "Thousands of products made at the same time." "Work going on all over America." "Digging into the ground and building into the sky." "Here, in the heat and noise of these shops... a new kind of person was being molded." "A new kind of American, no longer alone... but working with others - working together on the same assembly line... the same machine, the same product." "The new factories, the new industries... the mass production of goods for 130 million Americans." "That takes cooperation." "That takes the adjustment of man to man, of job to job." "Many men turning out a single car, a single tank... accomplishing a single task." "They learned to work together... and therefore they had to learn to think together, to move together... to act together... to grapple with the tough problems of the 20th century." "The word "brother." The word "cooperative."" "The word "union."" "America took up stronger than ever the idea of community action." "Tenant leagues, public forums, committees, clubs." "The idea of union took hold of the American people." "These were the new pioneers." "Facing a new frontier... they put the Bill of Rights into action." "Here's what they wanted with the Bill of Rights - bread and butter and old-age pensions... and health insurance and a 40-hour week." "Yes, they were confident." "Overconfident." "Democracy?" "Every day in the week." "The pursuit ofhappiness?" "They'd put it in the union contract." "They felt their own power." "They had come out of the Depression." "They had plans." "Yet this man's name was on file in an office building 600 miles away." "[Phone Ringing]" "Ordinary building." "Lobby as usual." "[Ringing Continues]" "[Typing]" "Typewriters, telephones, file cases -ordinary business." " [Phones Ringing]" " Hello" " Good morning" " Good afternoon" "Dear sir-My dear sir- We trust" " We firmly believe" "In a position to handle with a minimum - Delivery somewhat delayed" "Arrangements which you will agree- We are sure" "Most satisfactory-Most satisfactory" "Two dozen Little Giant gas grenades, triple "X."" "One Thompson submachine gun with three additional magazines." "A complete line, from undercover men to riot guns." "Assure you we are entirely confidential." "Trouble is our business, so to speak." "Entirely confidential." "The phone rang, and a man was bribed." "Traps for weak men... good openings for criminals." "Behind the front of everyday business... conspiracy against the lives of innocent men." "[Men Shouting]" " [Man #1] It's a liel - [Man #2] Let me at him!" " Quit shoving'!" " Let's take a lookl" " It's a lie!" " Hey, pipe down, boys!" "[Shouting Continues]" "[Man] What are you doing?" "Get away from that doorl" " What did I tell you?" " [Chattering, Murmuring]" "How 'bout it, Mack?" "You can't come in yet." "[Chattering, Murmuring Continue]" "[Chattering, Shouting]" "I wouldn't pull a thing like that!" "I'm a good union man!" "I seen him plain as day." "[Man] Hey, fellas, I think they found somethin'I" "[Man #2] No kiddin'I What do you knowl How do you like that dirty ratl" "[Shouting Continues]" "Stop pushing', will ya!" "[Man #1] Go get 'im, Archl" "[Man #2] Hey, Arch, get in therel" "[Shouting Continues]" "[Man #1] Aw, Mack stopped him." " Awwl - [Chattering, Murmuring]" "I know how you feel, fella, but that's no way to act." "Listen." "Wait a minute - Wait a minute" " I'll tell you how " " Take it easy." " All right." "Harry had this guy's number, all right." "A number-one rat." "Writing names and notes of the meeting on the inside of his vest." "Bring him out here, Mack." "I'll fix his wagon." "Guy sits in a union meeting'- Bring him out here, Mackl We'll fix his wagonl" "How do you like that?" " I'll kill that louse!" " [Shouting, Murmuring Continue]" "Okay, okay." "That's what he deserves." "Bring him out here!" "[Mack] Now, wait a minute." "Wait a minutel" "We know who planted Brown here." "You want to play into the hands of the company?" "Fine thing to read in tomorrow's paper:" ""Worker beaten in union hall."" "That'd be a swell way to give our union a black eye." "Why, they'd smear us left and right." "Just what they're waiting for." "[Man #1] Aw, but, Mack, this guy is sittin'right alongside of us " " Let's keep order." "This is a meeting." " [Shouting Quiets]" "I wanna make a proposal." "[Men Talking, Faint]" " [Mack] All those in favor, say " aye!" - [Men] Ayel" " Ayel" " Ayel" "Okay, line up!" "Bring him out, Harry." "Now walk." "And walk slow!" "Take a good, long look." "This spy was sent in here to break up the union... put our names on the blacklist, get us thrown out on the street." "Once a stool like this is known, he's washed up." "So look at him good." "Take a good, long look, and never forget that fink's face as long as you live." " My vest!" " [AllJeering]" "[Man #1] Put it on for himl" "[Man #2] What he needs is a straitjacket." " Write his name on itl That's what I sayi" " Hey!" "[Laughing, Jeering Continue]" "[Man #1] Good-bye to the finkl" "Sure had your eyes open that time, fella." " Attaboy, Harry." " You had your eyes open, kid." "[Man #2] You oughta pass a vote of thanks." "I mean it." "[Man Laughing] What a performancel" "Say, this Harry is a great actorl [Chuckling]" "And then he says, "I seen him plain as day."" "And then he pulls every last button off my vestl" "[Laughing]" "Real tough,just like Humphrey Bogart in the moviesl" "Okay,Jim." "Next stop, California." "Get your money and leave tonight." "Sunny California?" "Oh, boy!" "Well, so long, Harry." "So long." "Keep buttoned up." "You'll rise high in the labor movement." "[Door Closes]" "Good work, Carlyle." "You did a very good job, and the company appreciates it." "You're gonna go far." "We're giving you a little bonus." "Now, if you'll just sign there... the cashier'll take care of you on the way out." "We, uh" "We want you to get to work on your next job." "Now that they've made you vice president, it oughta be quite simple." "We want the who's-who." "I wanna quit!" "They'll never let me get it." "I wanna be let out." "The whole thing's dynamite." "Besides, it's in the safe." "They'd never let me get near it." "I can't get it, I tell ya." "Not bad." "He is a good actor." "You said it would only be a little checkup on efficiency for the stockholders." "You got me in too deep already." "You've gotta let me out of thisl" "Funny thing." "A funny thing, Carlyle." "Joe here was just telling me about a former employee of ours out in Akron." "He was picked up the other day... with internal injuries." "Had a hemorrhage." "As I always say, loyalty is the best policy." "I advise you to keep that in the front of your mind." "[Joe] Harry's okay, chief." "We'll get it." "You'll get it for us, won't you?" "Try it." "[Harry] Come on there." "Toss that ball down to second base." "♪♪ [Vocalizing]" "Dah!" "Doh!" "Uh-oh!" "[Makes Nonsense Noise]" "[Chuckles] ♪ Deet-det-doo, doo-deet-doh ♪" "Oh, he's smilingl Lookl [Laughing]" "[Phone Ringing]" "Harry, hold the baby, will you?" "[Ringing Continues]" "[Receiver Lifts Off Cradle]" "What's the trouble?" "Speak up." "Who's going to go to bed now?" "Hmm?" "[Chuckles] Ooh!" "Oh!" "You get in touch with the others." "Meeting'll be in the same place." "I'll be over soon." "Harry's here with me." "Harry?" "Harry, come here a minute, will ya?" "♪♪ [Mother Singing "Brahms Lullaby"]" " What's up, Mack?" " They broke into the union hall." "Turned the place inside out." " They get anything?" " Not what they're after." "I have the membership book right here." "Look, Harry, I want you to take it." "These boys mean business." "They're likely to try here next." "You take it." "You're a new officer." "They won't suspect you." "Hide it in your room for a few days." "Okay, Mack." "You're right." "That's right." "I'll take it." "It'll be safer with me." "I'll walk over to the hall, see what's what." "♪♪ [Singing Continues]" "Mary'll give me the devil for not taking her to the movies." "Look, Harry, tell her I'll be back early, will ya?" "Take good care of it, boy." "♪♪ [Singing Continues]" "♪♪ [Ends]" "[Door Opens]" "[Mary] Leaving us?" "Mack asked me to tell you he went down to the union hall." "No need to worry." "He'll be back soon." "Well, bye-bye." "You know, I haven't got a lot of time." "I gotta get to that meeting." "If I had it, wouldn't I give it to you?" "Hey, that cost me 20 bucks!" "♪♪ [Strings Reverberating]" "♪♪ [Strumming Guitar]" "I like music." "You wouldn't think a guy like me... would pay that much for a uke." "♪♪ [Strumming Continues]" "Don't you guys trust anybody?" "Okay, Harry." "No hard feelings." "I tell you, I haven't got it!" " [Ping-Pong Ball Bouncing] - ♪♪ [Guitar]" "[Man] ♪ Boss comes up to me with a five-dollar bill ♪" "♪ Says, "Get you some whiskey, boy and drink your fill"♪" "[Men] ♪ Get thee behind me, Satan ♪" "♪ Travel on down the line ♪" "♪ I am a union man ♪" "♪ Gonna leave you behind ♪" "[Man] ♪ A redheaded woman took me out to dine ♪" "♪ Says, "Love me, baby Leave the union behind"♪" "[Men] ♪ Get thee behind me, Satan ♪♪" ""About 3:00 p." "M..." ""I saw Manetti and a welder they call Frenchie." ""Talked about the new piecework rate and said plenty." ""Which made them all feel mad toward the company." "They're talking union. "" "Hmm." "Company found this very useful." "Your reports are very good." "Very good." "Very complete." ""Invited to the union meeting held in a house at 11 Elm Street." ""Getting regular headquarters soon." "I joined up quick."" "Sit down!" "You make me nervous!" ""Harry Carlyle, K2-17." "♪♪ [Single Note]" ""Signed K2-17." ""McComb likes me." "We had beer together." ""McComb's a regular one-man radio station." ""Thanks for the $45 January." ""P.S. Received $40 for December." ""July the 12th." ""Supper with the McCombs." ""Says that by September the union will be strong enough..." ""to stop the speedup." ""While I was playing with a baby, a phone call comes... saying that the hall was robbed, but they didn't get anything. "" "What are you doing?" "What are you gonna do?" "I thought maybe the boys at your union... would like to see your reports." "Give me a chance to think." "You got it." "You had it all the time, you dirty chiseler." "[Man] ♪ On the Fourth ofJuly the politicians say ♪" "♪ Vote for us and we'll raise your pay ♪" "[Men] ♪ Get thee behind me, Satan ♪" "♪ Travel on down the line ♪" "♪ I am a union man ♪" "♪ Gonna leave you behind ♪" "[No Audible Dialogue]" "[Man] ♪ So then the company union sent out a call ♪" "♪ They said, "Join us in the summer We'll forget you in the fall"♪" "[Men] ♪ Get thee behind me, Satan ♪" "♪ Travel on down the line ♪" "♪ I am a union man ♪" "♪ Gonna leave you behind ♪" "Ah, he should be here by now." "[Man] ♪ If anyone should ask you your union to sell ♪" "♪Just tell him where-♪♪" "[Harry] I gotta go." "They're waiting for me." "It's nearly 8:00 already." "It takes 20 minutes to get there." "I can't do itl They'd kill me." "Put me in the hospital." "What do you suppose they'll do when they read these?" "They'd know it's me." "They'd put the finger on me." "When you come across, we'll double it." " Well, Harry?" " You gotta give me protection." "Sure." "Sure." "They won't know anything about it." "We do this every day in the week." "Stop sweating." "When I fix you up, they'll think you're St. Francis." "Well, what do you say, Harry?" "♪♪ [Banjo]" "[Man] ♪ Come, all of you good workers ♪" "♪ Good news to you I'll tell ♪" "♪ Ofhow the good old union ♪" "♪ Has come in here to dwell ♪" "[Men] ♪ Which side are you on Which side are you on ♪" "[Man] ♪ My daddy was a miner ♪" "♪ And I'm a miner's son ♪" "♪ And I'll stick with the union ♪" "♪ Till every battle's won ♪" "[Men] ♪ Which side are you on Which side are you on ♪" "[Man] ♪ They say in Harlan County ♪" " ♪ There are no neutrals there ♪♪" " Hey, what's happened to Harry?" " He just keeled over." " Harry!" "[All Shouting]" " Watch out for his arm." " Take it easy." "Mack, take a look at him, will you?" "[Mack] Let me see him, boys." "They stole the membership book- all the names." "They stole the membership book." "[Train Rumbling]" "[Narrator] Bought and paid for." "One spy in a key position." "One act ofbetrayal." "One list of union names." "Bought and paid for." "McComb,J., :" "Manetti, F., :" "Moore, B., :" "Smith, G., :" "Petruski, F." " One at a time." " [No Audible Dialogue]" "Fire 10 this week, 10 more next week." "Big business." "Industrial service deluxe." "Spy to spy agency to employer." "[Phone Rings]" "[Narrator] Attention, plant superintendents." "Attention, personnel." "Stamping department, shaft number seven, crude oil division." "Confidential memorandum, form 26-A." "Following action effective at once." "Merchado, Antonio." "Occupation:" "Machinist." "Married?" "Yes." "Children:" "Four." "Not to be rehired under any circumstances." "[Typewriter Bell Dinging, Typing Continues]" "Perkins, Arthur." "Age 23." "Dependants:" "Two." "Call at cashier's window." "Grossman, William." "Report at once." "Reason:" "Insubordination." "Reason:" "Economy." "Reason:" "None." "Steelworker, salesman... bookkeeper." "Month after month without a job." "New Orleans longshoreman." "Detroit tool and dye man." "It's all over." "You're through." "Blacklisted." "Where was the right to organize?" "Where was the Bill of Rights?" "Here's how we tore up the blacklist." "Here's how we smashed the spy system under our feet." "We fought the secret payroll." "We won back our rights as Americans." "We reorganized." "We went on the march." "No more fear in the streets." "No more meetings in the dark." "We carried our names in the open air." "A thousand new members a day... two and a half million new people never organized before." "Organization." "A new declaration of independence for the people." "More than a weapon for democracy... the unions grew to be the center of people's lives... a place to go to... a chance to go on a boat ride, a place to laugh and dance... a place to bring their wives and kids." "Life, liberty?" "Yes." "But also the pursuit ofhappiness." "We cleared the poison out of the air." "Money for shoes and meat and oranges." "Baseball and sunshine." "Job security, and a billion dollars more in wages." "The people were on their way once more." "Unions were doubled, tripled in one year." "Spies cannot stop this wave of organization." "You can't blacklist a whole people." "The auto union started with 30,000 members." "In a year, they had 400,000." "Textile alone organized half a million." "Steel and coal added up to a million and a quarter." "Here, in their organizations, was the new strength of the people." "A.F. Of L. And C.I. O... and railroad brotherhoods." "Millions oflittle people banded together to protect each other." "Millions oflittle people like Frank Mason... a grocer in Memphis, Tennessee." " Ooh!" " His neighbors were union people." " Look out." "Look out!" " He shared their interests... helped them organize, contributed money when he could." " Oohl - [Girl Giggling]" "Watch out!" " Ooh!" " [Giggling Continues]" "Careful now." "It'll breakl" "[Both Laughing]" "[Bell Jingling]" "[Door Closes]" "[Footsteps Approaching]" "We hear you've been giving your money away again." "This is an open-shop town." "You don't seem to learn!" "Pay your bills and get out of town!" "Hey, kid." "Want a plum?" "Here." "What's the matter?" "Go on." "Taste it." "Nice and juicy." "Your friend wants you to eat it." "Here." "You leave that child alone!" "Your friend don't live here anymore." "Get wise." "Don't get in the way." "[Bell Jingling]" "[Girl Babbling, Crying]" "[Narrator] Twenty years in Memphis." "Raised a family here." "Pay him a little visit, teach him what's what." "Keep it secret." "Spring it on him." "Coming out of nowhere, find the key man, the best organizer... the man you can't buy." "[Train Whistle Blows]" "[Whistle Blows]" "Murder one man, frighten a thousand." "It's technique." "Get the whole county in the palm of your hand." "Pick up the poolroom sharks, give 'em a badge." "Citizens'committee." "Plenty of whiskey and brand-new riot guns." "Break up the unions once and for all." "Ambridge, Pennsylvania." "Two union members dead." "Brooklyn, New York." "There'd been a peaceful demonstration." "San Francisco." "That's the stuff." "That's the technique." "The open shop's the American way." "Mobilize the respectable elements of the community." "Rights?" "We gotta have action." "We gotta have law and order in this fair city of ours." "Anybody talks about rights - slap 'em down." "In the state of Florida." "In the state of Pennsylvania." "In our own town... on our own streets... there are two men dying in the county hospital." "But we cannot turn our faces aside." "They are our brothers." "They were gathered in peaceful assembly... and that was their right." "They were unarmed and unafraid... and they were met with coldhearted, brutal attack." "I've been advised to say nothing." "Powerful and respectable people in this community have come to me... have phoned to me repeatedly... have urged me not to deliver this sermon." "That would be easy, perhaps... but I will not be guilty of such silence." "This crime has been with me day and night." "I've longed for Sunday to come - the Lord's day- that I might speak out from the height of this pulpit." "There's been too much silence." "This armed assault against the sons of God must be called by its name." "It is sin." "It is contempt for human life - the worst sin of all." "There are men with high office in this community... who would silence brave teachers... violate our free elections... write injustice into law... all in the name of patriotism." "Men with great names have hired criminals... have paid weak men to spy on their brothers... have expended secret money to set Christian againstJew... and white against colored... to brand every immigrant a dangerous enemy." "Why, they would even fingerprint Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth... if they could." "We must grapple with this evil thing... before the forces of darkness arise with fire and sword... to break down the very doors of our church." "Today, now... we must speak, act, vote, protest... before it is too late!" "[Narrator] On the road north of Tampa, Florida... the night of November 30, 1935." "Joseph Shoemaker, Eugene Poulnot." "These men were leaders of the Modern Democrats." "They had almost defeated the Klan in the city elections." "They had dared to enter progressive candidates in the primaries... pledged to smash the political machine of the K.K.K." "Shoemaker and Poulnot, and a third man, Dr. Rogers... were dragged from a meeting earlier this evening... arrested by the police, held without charge... and then released into the arms of the Klan." "Here was treason in America... the face of fascism." " [Blows Landing]" " The K.K.K., the Black Legion." "Associated Farmers, Silver Shirts..." "Christian Front." "Lives tortured." "Blackmail, lynch law..." "Dr. Rogers tarred and feathered." "Ministers, teachers forced from their profession." "Open terror and secret persecution." "Whatever their masks, these forces hated one thing- the practice of democracy." "These crimes could no longer be hidden from America." "Meetings were called everywhere." "The news spread from city to city." "It was a slow thing, this anger of decent people." "Each protest had a thousand roots - men blacklisted for years... people who lived in the valleys of fear." "They turned their tragedy into action... put their plain words on paper- letters, resolutions, telegrams." "One message to Washington- Frisco to Washington." "Jersey to Washington." "Birmingham, Akron to Washington." "It was "We, the people" speaking out loud." "We were sick and bitter and angry." "We wanted facts." "We wanted action." " Vicksburg to Washington." " [Bell Clanging]" "Tulsa to Washington." "Boston to Washington." " Seattle to Washington." " [Train Whistle Blowing]" "That was the thunder of our voices... demanding that light be turned on these hidden crimes." "In the 76th Congress, a resolution was passed... authorizing an investigation of the violations of civil liberties... and the rights oflabor." "Bad news." "Bad news for the big shots, for the spy agencies." "Rumors of senate subpoenas." "Bad news for the tear gas salesman." "Not in today." "Out of town." "Correspondence?" "Never keep it." "Business?" "Strictly cash." "Don't answer unless you have to." "Strikebreaking?" "Never do it." "Stool pigeons?" "Never use 'em." "We'll never know the full story." "We'll never know all the facts." "They destroyed the dates, the names, the figures." "But they were too late." "The bags of waste were subpoenaed by the senate committee." "They sorted out the millions of scraps of paper- documents, letters, receipts." "Evidence on paper and confirmed by witnesses." "Checked and rechecked." "Sixty-five volumes of testimony." "Bit by bit... a patient reconstruction of a crime." "A single steel company possessing 500 revolvers." "Vice president of a national union revealed as a Pinkerton spy." "It began to add up- the technique of terror, the arithmetic of fear." "Unseen." "A plan with a single aim." "Backed by billions of dollars... by the resources of the biggest corporations... this conspiracy entangled the whole United States." "But it was kept secret... till the senate committee turned on the light." "Spies." "The senate revealed the spies of a secret war." "All over the country, planted in every local... 41,000 labor spies... an $80 million payroll." "The senate revealed the existence of private armies - armies of criminals organized for a secret war in every state of the union." "Armed vigilantes, strikebreakers, company police... paid by private corporations." "Private arsenals." "The senate revealed private arsenals... of tear gas, shotguns, machine guns... for a war against Americans." "Millions of rounds of ammunition." "Millions of dollars spent in secret." "And a system of nationwide propaganda... used to attack progressive legislation- newspapers, lobbies, the radio, full-page advertisements - extending across the whole country." "Propaganda, arsenals... private armies, spies." "The senate exposed the secret connections... the interlocking parts of an immense conspiracy... directed by a handful of fascist-minded corporations." "Here was a criminal conspiracy to undermine the Bill of Rights... to weaken the strength of Americans... exposed." "Exposed to the light of day." "The American people had won again." "Their enemies could no longer operate in disguise." "The newly won rights of the people- collective bargaining, unemployment insurance- were backed by the strength of organization." "Democracy was coming back." "Memorial Day... 1937." "The lilacs were gone." "The roses were in full bloom." "Living Americans honored the dead." "The memory of those who declared independence... the men who fought against human slavery." "Memorial Day." "A moment in the history of the Bill of Rights." "[Rifles Firing]" "A day of flags, flowers and trumpets." "A summer holiday." "Memorial Day." "America without fear." "Sunlight all day." "A cool west wind." "And millions of people in the public parks." "Time to rest." "Time to be happy." "What do people want out oflife?" "Not very much." "Not too much." "Enough to eat, and a family." "Pay the rent." "And some kind of future." "A holiday of rest and play... and no thought of danger." "[Siren Wailing]" "At that moment, out in Chicago... 2,000 people walking toward the Republic Steel plant..." " were blocked by the police." " [Siren Continues]" "The mayor declared peaceful picketing would be permitted." "These facts were proved." " [Alarm Blaring] - [Stomping Sound]" " [Gunfire] - [Man Shouts]" "[Narrator] An act of fascism." "Ten killed, 90 injured." "The act of a desperate minority." "The dead were all shot in the back." "[Sobbing]" "[Woman Crying]" "He was a fine man." "I'd like to say a few words in the way of good-bye." "Hard to know what to say." "Never thought I'd come to carry Whitey down here." "We were the same as brothers." "Everybody considered we were brothers." "They started firing at us... and I saw him fall down." "When I saw it, I didn't believe it." "To take away a man's life " "Shouldn't get away with a thing like that." "He had a right to go on that line." "He was the kind of man who stood up for his rights." "We don't forget that." "Never." "[Narrator] No." "We don't forget this ground... the blood that has run into this ground." "How many times?" "For 300 years, there were wounds and sweat... and battles without names." "We rememberJefferson and Adams..." "Jackson, Frederick Douglass and John Brown." "America forged in the heat ofbattle." "We fought for liberty in every generation." "We don't forget our victories." "Freedom, won step by step... in a struggle of 300 years." "Out of a raw continent, we created a new world." "We, the people, laboring all these years... pushing the frontier back from ocean to ocean... plowing freedom into the dark soil." "We defended our valleys against all enemies." "We fought to make America the name for liberty." "City and farm, we organized millions... to unite the people, to make the Bill of Rights a reality... to make the nation strong." "We pushed forward the horizons of our freedom... into the 20th century." "We built liberty into the beams of our houses - the house of America... which we will guard against every enemy within and without." "Here, we put the life of 300 years... the dream... the work of 300 years... our fruit and our harvest... our states full of farms." "We set the foundations of our cities on the rock of the Bill of Rights." "And yet today, our liberty is in danger." "The freedom we have won from enemies abroad... must be saved again from enemies within." "Once more the old enemy rises to threaten the four freedoms." "The rights of all Americans - every creed and every color- to a job, a home... adequate food and medical care... the right to bargain collectively... to act for the greatest good of the greatest number... the right to live at peace unthreatened... threatening no one." "Today these words must become deeds... for there has never been a moment in our history... when Americans were not ready to stand up as free men... and fight for their rights." "We don't forget that." "Never."