Under the banner of proletarian internationalism (1978)

Movie №8145, 2 parts, Duration: 0:19:33 B/W
Studio CSDF (RCSDF)
Starring All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions

Annotation:

On the international activities of Soviet trade unions.

Annotation:

Newsreel: meeting of the 1st International Congress of Revolutionary Trade Unions in Moscow (1921). May Day demonstration of Moscow workers on Red Square. On the tribune are the leaders of the Soviet government: A. N. Kosygin, L. I. Brezhnev, M. A. Suslov. Interviews (synchronously) with representatives of trade union organizations of foreign countries: R. Vladimiru (Portugal), I. Gamarra (Peru), Fahmial-Hindi (Palestine). Boxes of food products for shipment to countries of Asia, Africa, Latin America as humanitarian aid from Soviet trade unions. Presentation of diplomas of completion of the Higher School of Trade Union Movement in the USSR to trade union activists of foreign countries. Bashkiria. International competition of working skills of excavator operators. The city of Leningrad. Meeting of the XXI working conference of the countries of the Baltic Sea, Norway and Iceland. A. I. Shibaev speaks. Reception of the Director General of the International Labour Office F. Blanchard by A. I. Shibaev. The stay of the English trade union organization in the USSR. The delegation visits the Exhibition of Economic Achievements and the Moscow Botkin Hospital. The city of Kyiv. The meeting of the European Regional Conference of the International Social Security Association. The delegates visit the Khimvolokno plant's health resort. Vacationers at the trade union sanatorium on the Black Sea coast. The pioneer camp of the trade unions on the Pacific Ocean coast.

Reel №1

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Demonstration on Red Square in Moscow on May 1, 1978. Demonstrators carry posters, banners, wave flowers.

Foreign guests on the guest tribune.

Chronicle of 1920-1929: delegates of the First International Trade Union Congress pass by.

Delegates in the congress meeting hall, delegates speak, presidium of the congress.

Demonstration in capitalist countries against poverty and unemployment, demonstrators are doused with water, police disperse demonstrators (b/w) Demonstration on May 1 on Red Square. L. Brezhnev, A. Kosygin, M. Suslov on the tribune of the Mausoleum.

On Red Square during the demonstration, the following give interviews: representative of the workers of the ceramic industry of Portugal Raul Vladimiru, chairman of the General Confederation of Labor of Peru Isidoro Gamarra, assistant to the general secretary of the General Arab Federation of Trade Unions Fahlin al-Hindi (simultaneous interviews).

Packing sugar packets at a factory.

Fabrics are lying around.

Box with NDP: Lao People's Democratic Republic".

A worker packs cargo into sacks.

NDP on the box: "Federation of Trade Unions of Palestine".

A car with cargo drives along the airfield, a plane takes off.

Foreign students of the Higher School of Trade Union Movement VTsSPS walk along the street of Moscow.

Higher School VTsSPS. Students are sitting.

Vice-rector of the Higher School of Trade Union Movement, professor K.P. Staev presents diplomas to foreign students.

A student from Angola Victor Bringu gives an interview (synchronously).

Bashkir ASSR, Kumertau, Kumertaussky coal mine, Bashkirugol associations.

Competition of working skills of excavator operators from the GDR, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, SRR, Poland, USSR in the Kumertaus coal mine.

Excavator operators climb onto an excavator.

Competition. N. Zlobin with a delegation of foreign workers passes on the construction site, talks about his method.

New houses.

The city of Halle (GDR).

Chemical plant in Halle.

Workers pass through the checkpoint.

Workers from the USSR work at the chemical plant, talk with German workers.

Soviet workers on an excursion in Halle: a cathedral, a monument, children at the fountain.

Soviet workers visiting a German worker, having lunch.

The city of Leningrad: Peter and Paul Fortress, the Winter Palace, a monument to Lenin.

An excursion near Smolny, the excursionists are listening.

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Leningrad port, dockers-delegates of the 21st Working Conference of the Baltic Sea Countries, Norway and Iceland talking in the port.

Cargo ship in the port, crane working.

Girls on the streets of Leningrad.

Palace of Labor.

Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 21st Working Conference of the Baltic Sea Countries, Norway and Iceland.

Chairman of the Standing Committee Heinz Hanies speaking.

End of the conference in the Tauride Garden, delegates in the corridors.

Presidium of the conference.

The following speak at the conference: Chairman of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions A.I. Shibayev, Secretary of the All-Union Pension Fund Ya.

Neomudry, Secretary of the Trade Unions of the GDR, Secretary of the Union of Metalworkers of the FRG Lanze.

The delegates listen and applaud.

Obelisk and memorial to the defenders of Leningrad, Piskarevskoye Cemetery.

Moscow - general plans.

At the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions A. Shibayev receives Director General of the International Labour Office Francis Blanchard.

A delegation of English workers at VDNKh, examining exhibits in the Cosmos pavilion; visiting Botkin Hospital, talking to doctors.

Kiev, Vladimirskaya Gorka.

Participants in the European Regional Conference of the International Social Security Association in the meeting hall.

The participants in the meeting are riding a bus to the Khimvolokno enterprise's health resort, examining the health resort.

A massage room.

Vacationers are playing billiards.

The participants in the conference are drinking juice in the lobby of the health resort.

A Black Sea resort, a beach, vacationers are sunbathing, playing chess, etc.

The Vietnamese are vacationing by the sea, riding boats.

A Far Eastern port on the Pacific coast, mountains.

Russian and Japanese children in a pioneer camp on the Pacific coast - swimming, eating fish soup by the fire, singing "Katyusha" in chorus (synchronously).

An orchestra plays at the station, Russian and foreign workers and members of trade union delegations dance.

Farewell to the delegations at the station.

The 9th World Trade Union Congress in Prague (Czechoslovakia), meeting hall. A. Shibaev speaks (synchronously).

Listeners applaud in the hall.

Demonstration on May 1 on Red Square in Moscow.

Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions Juan Ponce (Chile) gives an interview about the activities of trade unions in the USSR (synchronously).

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