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Industry’s Disinherited (1949)

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Industry’s Disinherited (1949)
Sponsor: United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. Production Co.: Union Films. Producer: Carl Aldo Marzani. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 21 minutes.

Advocacy film sponsored by the leftist labor union to expose the plight of senior citizens shut out of the postwar economic boom. Industry’s Disinherited shows the poverty and despair of older Americans forced to rely on inadequate pension and social security payments, and demands increased government benefits for seniors.