National Recovery Administration is dissolved in May 1935; as a result, women shirtmakers strike in Virginia

Title card: "City backs odd strike" / A group of women strikers in light summer attire march outside a building shirt plant / A motorcycle cop offers a women a drink from his saddlebag; SOT he tells her he's there to protect her / Mayor Emmett C. Davison [and Secretary of the International Association of Machinists] stands with the women; SOT Davison: "If a proper standard of living is not maintained as a result of this activity of your organization, it is our purpose in Alexandria to see that you're furnished employment by having you manufacture shirts under a condition that will bring a decent standard of living" / VS women in the sunshine serve donuts to the strikers / MOS comments from strikers: one can't meet the quota of over a thousand dozen shirts a week, not enough for her to feed her family; another explains that under the NRA she worked 36 hours and made $10-10.50 a week, now it's 40 and $7-8; she has trouble feeding her family / Note: exact day not known