The Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal provide the background for a look at the explosion of militancy in the west coast maritime trades, culminating in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934. The Upton Sinclair campaign for Governor brings the movies into California politics, transforming the political process. Farm labor strife in the central valley and a huge growth in union membership attends the rise of the CIO, which, due to its philosophy of industrial unionism, is a civil rights movement as well as a labor movement. 18 minutes