Matewan Union Speech
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- What a union is. Speech on what unionism is and where the primary strength of a union lies, in it's membership and threat of a strike denying the workforce from the employer to improve wages, working conditions, health and safety.
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This is the first and best argument against racism - and still truer than ever
And Unions don't forget
And yet the warden from Shawshank Redemption is pretending to be their advocate, but at the same time making them think this can’t happen.
All this multiculturalism is doing the west sooo much good.
Very underrated performance by James Earl Jones.
It’s never been underrated by me, it’s one of the things that made this movie so great
When one lives in the empire, they're more likely to remember James for Star Wars than the pro union, antiracist movie
@@gregmerk427 to end racial prejudice and stereotypes. Hazing is evil as racial inequality is.
@@cameronmachado1774 Not like you have to pick one or the other. Mr. Jones has been giving indelible performances for his entire career. This movie contains one of his finest. Just because it didn’t do Star Wars-like box office doesn’t diminish that fact.
@@nicholasmedovich8691 ?
Union: bargain
Non Union: beg
We’re getting close to a breaking point where many families have;
1.) no savings
2.) no money after bills
3.) no benefits
4.) no retirement
It’s become apparent for a few who are organizing, because they got nothing left to lose and everything to gain. Amazon, and Starbucks, and a few others.
So true. TY. Norma Rae too.. may I share this?
I was in this movie, most of the scenes were shot around the Beckley W.VA area.I was in several scenes, one of them was filmed in the Beckley Exibition Coal Mine, with James Earl Jones! This movie was up for the Academy Awards in 1987 along with Hope And Glory, Dirty Dancing and others. This is a great movie, which is a true story of what happened in the 1920s when the coal miners tried to form a union! It also was a 3 and a half star rated movie in the TV guide, it was directed by John Sayles, and had great reviews!
It got nominated for ONE award--for cinematography. It 's better than every movie nominated for Best Picture that year. Platoon was a worthy winner, but Matewan is better.
Hi Rich, This is Jenny L. Moye. I think you are my paw paw. He was in that scene of the movie, and your name matches his name. If it is you, I have missed you so much since you moved away. I know you will probably never see this, but I really really miss you and think about you everyday. I love you so so much, and I wish I could write you letters. If you see this, please send me a letter at P.O. Box 160006 Nashville, TN 37216. Or, you can find me at Facebook.com/jenny.moye499 I've missed you for years. I really love you and miss you.
Love, Jenny M.
(Sorry if you are a different Richard Myers, please ignore this if you are not him.
I really do hope you see this if it is you, even though I know you probably wont.)
I love you, Jenny L Moye.
Did he get in touch?
@@jennyneedsmeds damn thats rough
@@jennyneedsmeds Did he get your message? just curious., oh and good luck! :-)
This movie was assigned in school and I've watched it each year since. The message of the movie is just as important today as it was then; maybe more so. We need to support one another no matter what color we are, where we're from, who we love, etc...Remember "there are only two sides to this world them that work and them that don't." Those that don't try to focus the rest of us on other issues so we lose track of what's important.
Where did you go to school? Lucky you.
@@julietcunningham852 The Univ. of Delaware.
John Sayles, one of the great American film makers. Matewan is utterly brilliant and one of my favourite films and I think should be heard more in film discussions. Quietly fierce, but patient, filmed with intelligence and an understanding of the subject matter - treats the audience with respect and never patronises the story of characters. 5 Star film making.
I couldn't agree with u more. He went to school with David Strathairn, who played the police chief, Sid Hatfield, at Williams College. Any time I see either name affiliated with a movie it's usually good.
I know, it's such a great movie. I've seen it 5 times at least! Fixin' to watch it agin right now. Scandalously underappreciated.
What get my goat is that the unions fought for your pay rise your holiday pay your sick pay overtime pay your weekend etc, all those who think that unions are dirty word should fight for the above themselves sick and tired of hearing people disrespect the unions yet are ok taking what they fight for!!
@RUclips Veterinarian They lost the war.
Horrible grammar aside, you're right
You can blame Vito Genovese for this.
Arguably the most important speech ever delivered in a true story film
Excellent movie, Matewan is a must see for any union man ! Live better work union
Union longshoreman here. Love my union brothers. Happy labor day weekend everyone. God bless the union and God bless thr I.L.A.
I had never seen a movie like this and was left speechless by it. I heard about this movie from the legendary Marxist/Socialist Philosophy professor Rick Roderick, who quoted this very scene in one of his lectures. This is an excellent summation of class conflict and social control through capital.
I learned about this movie from meeting up with socialists. With trump in office, there has never been a better time to be a socialist.
How has unions done for workers in the last 40 years? Where I live, the union drove Caterpillar out of town with all of the $20 an hour jobs with it. All the while raking in dues.
Jeff Tate II Hope you found some class consciousness in the last four months, comrade.
I just got to this clip through a comment on Reddit, and this is truly powerful stuff
@@pretendamnesia you don't even know what communism is you absolute knuckle-dragging troglodyte, you just parrot your masters like a good little slave
I used to use this speech as an acting audition piece. I will continue to do so. Powerful speech. I used to show this film every year to my 7th grade Social Studies class. The class usually ended up in a riot. No shit. The students were ready to take violent action for workers rights. And, I instigated it.
11/10 praxis
You are indoctrinating your students. You aren't educating. Typical.
Jeff Tate II a right winger trolling a leftist video. Typical
Talking about the Workers in your class is absolutely wonderful! Bless you sir! They didn't mention anything about the Workers in my history class but they damn well should have. I had a teacher put down the New Deal. Please keep doing what you are doing and reminding the students they are Workers and to be proud of that.
@@JFLOJUDO What's so bad about letting people come to their own conclusions from material?
This was Chris Cooper's first movie. And what a performance.
There's something about James Earl Jones character taking more offenses to being called a scab than a slur. Alot of layers in that piece of dialouge.
Bad ass! Brilliant acting right here. Cooper is an underrated treasure
This is one of the best films made and this scene is gold. Not a single academic term used to explain a Marxist or "materialist" truth. Brilliant.
Support your Labor Unions!
From a Proud Worker of UFCW Local 1996
good god, what a great... alll people are people.. doesnt matter our skin color, or origins.. we work, we need to band together.. Im no beter than anyone else,, but I will band together with my union brothers and sisters to secure a better life for my family and my union brothers and sisters family!!!!
I've been a huge John Sayles fan for years, reading his book Union Dues and watching Matewan. I've also liked most of what I've seen of Haskell Wexler's. I was studying the use of drugs to undermine antiwar and Civil Rights work when I saw Medium Cool and Underground. These helped inspire my completion of a book and film, Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists. I hope both Sayles and Wexler are healthy and happy.
Every apprentice I work work along is told to find and watch this movie before I sign a work report
We could sure use a little of this now.
Great speech, man can Chris Cooper act. Also feels very relevant today.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.
I worked on this movie. The production crew were nice to work for and with..Great memories.
An important film - perhaps before its time. But, this is a different time - things remain the same. Every American should see this film. We are all in the same fight for dignity of work, proper health care for all and a fair wage.
Workers of the world, unite!
...In serfdom to the vanguard party.
The Democratic Party is the true enemy of workers
The Land of the Free? Whoever told you that is your enemy 💯
@@CascadianPatriotIIserf to the billionaire capitalist oligarch class^
Criterion is releasing "Matewan" on blu-ray at the end of October (2019), which surely will do fuller justice to the visual beauty and nuance of this film.
I loath Blu-ray it's controlled by uknowho
@@dconfused9919 No idea what you're talking about, "controlled" how??
Somebody needs to go back to the same communities and make a similar speech today.
People used to say that "Unions have outlived their usefulness". Unions were so effective that we all but forgot the reason workers Unionized in the first place. Now that we have Trump, we again have a reason to "Organize and built support".
The Republican Party is the party that destroyed unions.
He's the bad guy billionaire people worship as a God
It's ghastly
Years ago, I watched this whole movie, and I thought it deserved to be named the < American Germinal >. Very good movie, about a tragic story of work, courage and the strugle for descent conditions of living. *Emile Zola would be proud* .
That's rite for sure there are two sides to this world those who am those who don't and the ones who don't are always fucking with the ones who do ! Stand up workers an stick it to the man ! United steel workers local 40 !
Best scene about the Struggle since the Grapes of Wrath film ending.
"I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look-wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build, I'll be there, too." Tom Joad
As true today as yesterday or 1000 years ago.
Oh and James Earl Jones, one of the finest actors ever.
I wanna know how the director got all these people, many of whom are known for other stuff, to show up here. Mad props to him for that.
"You watch your mouf, peckerwood!" 1:31
"I ain't never been called no scab!" - love it.
@@allisonmackay3818 I'll go ton for ton loadin' coal with any man here! Gives me chills
@@PikeBishop65 That's "...any man hea-yah..."
Given it was 1920 I'm surprised he wasn't lynched.
Mr Wexler you did an impecable job here in this movie, cheers to you sir
Let's understand that unions are not perfect as their are shitty ones that are corrupt along with rediculous high dues. However in American history, the unions have mostly benefited and strengthened the labor movement, allowing me to have the worker rights I have today.
"Get used to it." We are indeed brothers. The Union built the middle class in this country while building the country.
'Few Clothes' had the guts to walk into that room. I will never forget James Earl Jones' turn in that scene...epic!
Such a powerful scene
It appears to be only on DVD and Bluetooth. Not good! I saw the movie years ago and it was awesome, very well done.
I WAS UNION YESTERDAY. I AM UNION TODAY. AND I WILL BE UNION TOMORROW AND FOREVER. GOD BLESS JIMMY HOFFA. A GREAT AMERICAN. THE BEST FREIND WORKING PEOPLE EVER HAD, AND EVER WILL HAVE. I WORKED IN A MEAT COMMISSARY. MANY YRS.GIVE NOOO SHT. TAKE NOOO SHT. OHH YOU CAN'T SCARE MEEE I'M IN THE UNION.
Brilliant clip. Thanks for posting.
THIS IS AWESOME
profound was that the African American would rather be called an N than a scab...this is very telling about how severe was the desperation surrounding worker exploitation. Today, people in the postmodern world cannot understand this and get hung up on more superficial identities. There is no more intense sense of identity than "worker" to the hungry person.
I just saw this clip in a Reddit comment and wow this is powerful
Great video. I just started a webseries called Record West Virginia, all about the history and folklore of the state. Our first episode, is on Sid Hatfield and the Battle of Matewan. Check it out if you're interested. Would love some feedback.
This is my favorite movie. Thank you sir for your part in it!!
Proud IAM member !
This is so true today.
“With all the dagos and all the coloreds …that’s what a union is fellers, you better get used to it”…beautiful
Be strong comrades.
"That's what a union is, fellas. Better get used to it."
Why is it so hard to find this movie and streaming?
VADER REPPIN.
LOCAL 16 I,AT,S,E,
Seen him at Kerner.
that's a communist and I'm proud to hear him speak. :)
Happy Labor Day.
Just like Political parties All fighting among ourselves
BASED
Mufasa exposes his disgusted side to inequality
What movie is this?!
Matewan by John Sayles.
What movie is this?
Matewan
Warden Norton: Jerk
trump 2016
Chris Cooper didn't land many leading roles throughout his career. In Matewan he certainly proves that it wasn't for lack of talent. Had things gone a little differently for him, he could have been an A-lister back in the day. No question. This film is a forgotten classic.
Not positive, but I think this movie was his first acting role. When it came out, I was a huge movie buff and along with James Earl Jones, Sayles regulars Gordon Clapp, Kevin Tighe, David Strathairn, and Maggie Renzi were all I recognized.