Incited by wage cuts, speed-ups, and lengthened working hours, the largely immigrant workers in the textile mills of Passaic, New Jersey shut down the mills on January 25, 1926, for more than a year. In this documentary covering the event, a number of labor leaders are seen speaking at labor rallies, while some incidents of tear-gassing and beating of strikers by police are captured on film. The prologue is a dramatization of the fictional Breznac family, who immigrate to America only to encounter industrial oppression and exploitation.

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Balog, Lester (photographer), Brody, Sam (photographer), Schwartfeller, William (photographer), Wagenknecht, Albert (producer), Russak, Sam (director), Larkin, Margaret (author of screenplay), International Workers Aid (producer)

01:19:04 (HH:MM:SS)

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