Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, gains a job in the Chicago stockyards. Once working at the stockyards he meets and marries Ona. But due to cut backs at the stockyards, loses his job, and they fall into financial hardship. Ona, in order to get money to feed their child, engages in sexual activity with her husband's foreman, Connor. Connor, rapes her. When Rudkus finds out about the affair, he throws Connor into a cattle pen where he is killed. While in prison Ona dies. When Rudkus gets out of prison he becomes an advocate for women via the Socialist Party. Considered a lost film.
George Nash
as Jurgis Rudkus
Gail Kane
as Ona
Julia Hurley
as Elzbieta
Robert Cummings
as Connor
Alice Marc
as Marija
Robert Paton Gibbs
as Antanas (as Robert Payton Gibbs)
Clarence Handyside
as John Durham
E.P. Evers
as Freddy Durham (as Ernest Evers)
