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The Fight for Right (II) (1913)
Short | Drama, Short

The Fight for Right (II) (1913)

Short | Drama, Short

John Ward, a young workman, loves Mary Durland, daughter of a rich politician, who installs prison contract labor in the prisons of his city. The other knitting mills in the town cannot compete with cheap prison labor and are forced to ...See moreJohn Ward, a young workman, loves Mary Durland, daughter of a rich politician, who installs prison contract labor in the prisons of his city. The other knitting mills in the town cannot compete with cheap prison labor and are forced to close down. John and his brother, Joe, are thrown out of work and with others of the men, go to see Durland, who refuses to listen to them. John and Joe vainly look for work. Their mother is ill and needs nourishing food and medicine, and they have no money. Joe, an impulsive, warm-hearted lad, decides that as Durland took their living away, he shall pay, and he goes to his office intending to rob it of enough to carry his mother through her illness. Durland returns for some papers and the boy is caught. He is sent to prison and works on the knitting machines. He breaks down under the strain, is brutally treated by the guards and is later transferred to the road making gang. Unaccustomed to this he faints continually, but never meets the slightest kindness or consideration. Mary Durland returns home from boarding school and meets John, who is now a mechanic. She sees the difference in him and asks what is wrong. He does not tell her the truth, not wishing her to know her father is the cause of his trouble. John becomes a labor leader and makes up his mind to fight the prison contract labor system. Mary, who has become interested in sociological work, discovers the truth about the prisons when she finds Joe, physically and almost mentally a wreck. To convince herself further she goes through the prisons as well as the hospitals. She goes up North and studies prison conditions there. She finds men learning trades and working for the state, not in competition with labor. Returning home she calls on John to come and see her, and to him she tells what she saw while away, announcing her intention of fighting the prison contract system. John, then tells her she will be fighting her own father, but nothing daunted, she goes right ahead. Mary and John appear before the legislature just as a bill is about to be refused prohibiting prison labor. They have Joe with them, helpless and almost a cripple, and Mary makes an impassioned speech recommending the bill. She so interests the men that they rise and one and all vote for the bill. Durland, feeling himself beaten, consents to his daughter's marriage with John. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Rosemary Theby Mary Durland Mary Durland See fewer	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921)
Irving Cummings John Ward - Mary's Sweetheart John Ward - Mary's Sweetheart See fewer	Curly Top (1935)
Ralph Lewis Durland - Mary's Father Durland - Mary's Father See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Irene Howley Actress Actress See fewer	Her Father's Keeper (1917)
Oscar Apfel Actor Actor See fewer	The Squaw Man (1914)