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The Long Strike
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Francis X. Bushman [Jim Blakely], Bryant Washburn [Bert Readly], Harry Cashman [Noah Dixon], Tommy Shirley (Tom Shirley) [Bob Dixon]
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Released 7 December 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Alex Readly, President of the Readly Steel Mills, is seated in his handsome office when he receives a telegram from the superintendent of the mills, stating that the men are about to strike. Bert Readly, a young man of twenty-two, is sent to the mills to endeavor to make terms with the men. On his way he meets Jane Williams, the daughter of one of the mill employees, who directs him to the mill offices. A committee waits on Bert but he refuses them everything and the strike is called. In danger of his life Bert flees to Jane’s house and is hidden by the girl from the mob. While hidden there he hears a plot to burn the mills and after he escapes from the house has Jane’s father, the ring-leader, arrested. Jane goes to Readly, Sr., and pleads with him to grant the men their demands. Readly soon sees the justice of their pleas and calls the strike off with the promise of better pay and hours.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Labor strikes
Listing updated: 30 March 2020.
References: Sloan-Loud p. 66 : Website-IMDb.
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