Forgotten History?

By GREG WILSBACHER

The value of newsreel libraries

On May 1, 1935, thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets in honor of May Day. Some held signs demanding the release of the labor leader Tom Mooney from jail, other signs challenged the policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, still other signs simply read, "United Front." As the march approached the Manufacturers Trust Company, a young man paused briefly, his right fist raised in defiance — of the bourgeois, the police, the bank before