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...abused. Leaders of the Alliance were in turn roundly rebuked by Governor Murphy for their "interference." In Detroit, five picketers were injured in a scuffle with police when some officials tried to enter the closed Cadillac plant. In Saginaw, where anti-strike temper was described as "simply murderous," a gang ran six strike organizers out of town. As four of the organizers were proceeding to Flint under police escort, an automobile swerved into their path, forced their speeding taxicab off the road into a telephone pole, seriously injuring all four. In Anderson. Ind. some 2.000 mobsters broke up a United...
...wandering boy comes home with a wife, Ruth (Tamara), a beautiful Jewish radical and labor agitator. It is not long before she ousts the old-line labor bosses in the local mill, organizes a strike. The mill owner (Clyde Fillmore) is tough, too. He imports a gang of scabs and arms 20 deputized thugs with machine guns to protect them. Ruth's crowd also has machine guns and the streets are just about ready to run with his fellow citizens blood when Druggist Cogswell gets himself appointed sheriff and tries to substitute for the Fascist way or the Communist...
...because his marks were poor, young Winthrop left Yale, set out to be the first Rockefeller since his grandfather to go into the oil business for a career.* First stop was in Jennings, La., where he boarded at Mrs. Inez Daugherty's Ardennes Hotel, labored with a "roughneck" gang in Humble's Roanoke field. From Louisiana he went to Texas again, did all manner of tasks, became a deputy sheriff so he could carry a gun. was arrested for speeding only twice...
Like Black Fury and I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Black Legion makes no effort to mollify its message. Robert Lord's vigorous story investigates the Legion from three angles: its effect on Tay lor, its purpose of making money for a crew of cold-blooded organizers, and its own mob activities of night raids, arson, beatings and finally murder. When fear of the police has forced. Taylor to kill his best friend, the picture comes to a climax in a courtroom sequence which achieves a new high for judicial severity on the screen. Good shot...
...Woman Alone (Gaumont British). Sylvia Verloc (Sylvia Sidney) is unaware that her stolid, bear-faced husband (Oscar Homolka), proprietor of a London cinemansion, is the hireling of a gang of terrorists. While she tends her little brother Stevie, Verloc douses all the lights of London by sabotaging the generators. Next he is ordered to blow up Piccadilly Circus by leaving a bomb in the Underground station. Meanwhile, a handsome Scotland Yarder has him under surveillance, also makes eyes at Sylvia. Unable to leave the house without being detected, Verloc sends Stevie to plant the bomb. Unwitting Stevie dawdles, is blown...