The Passaic Textile Strike (1926)

1926 · Silent film · 18 min · dir. Samuel Russak

• Documentary

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Synopsis

In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for thirteen months and was vigorously and violently opposed by mill owners and police authorities. This was not an uncommon consequence of striking, and strikers were often fired upon throughout the early Twentieth Century by both police forces and the National Guard as was demonstrated in the modern section of D.W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE (1916) and many…

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Details

Director

Samuel Russak

Writer

Margaret Larkin

Studio

S. B. Russack

Released

1926-10-28

Running time

18 minutes

Cast & crew

• SSamuel Russak Director
• GGeorge Ashkenudse
• JJohn J. Ballam
• LLena Chernenko

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