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  • The Living Wage (1914)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Living Wage (1914)
Short | Short, Drama
An investigating board learns from a factory girl that the average weekly wage is $4.00, and summons the reputed owner, Albert Dorn, before them. Gertrude Mason, an heiress, and her fiancé, Stanley Sneed, attend the session out of ...See moreAn investigating board learns from a factory girl that the average weekly wage is $4.00, and summons the reputed owner, Albert Dorn, before them. Gertrude Mason, an heiress, and her fiancé, Stanley Sneed, attend the session out of curiosity, and hear the chief witness, Letty Green's testimony; also Dorn's sworn statement that his profit is only 7 per cent on the capital invested. The young woman of wealth is deeply affected by the revelations of the factory system and strangely enough, her fiancé, unknown to her, is a silent partner in this very establishment; in fact, he sneaks off to the factory after the trial and congratulates the manager on his clever testimony. This young woman of grit determines to play factory girl herself and ascertain conditions. She secures first, a position in the office of Dorn, and then overhears a conversation between that cruel taskmaster, and the man to whom she is engaged. She finds in his desk a secret ledger showing profits of over 35 per cent, and devolves a plan to get possession of this book. In the interim, poor Letty, who has been driven from pillar to post, becomes the victim of a "masher." He is fined a trifling $5.00 for the offense and then set free to prey again. Gertrude secures the assistance of Letty; they build a fake fire in the office and get away with the secret ledger. The result is that both men are summoned before the investigating board and properly dealt with. Gertrude also takes a hand herself and deals with her fiancé in a way that rids decent society of his offensive presence. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Willard Newell
Writer
Will M. Ritchey (story)
Producer
William Nicholas Selig
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Updated Jan 6, 1914
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Jan 6, 1914 (United States)

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