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A working-class father struggles to find employment as the local textile mill hires only inexpensive child labor. With reluctance, he allows his oldest daughter to take a job at the mill. At the same time, in New York, the wealthy businessman Hanscomb is urged to speak out against child labor but refuses. While Mrs. Hanscomb and her daughter are traveling, the young girl becomes separated from them, gets lost, and is taken in by the working-class family. To assist them, she begins working at the mill. As this unfolds, Hanscomb simultaneously initiates a search for his daughter while continuing to build his financial empire.
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11 unique people credited
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Robert Conness
as William Hanscomb - the Mill Owner
Miriam Nesbitt
as Louise Hanscomb
Shirley Mason
as Mabel Hanscomb
John Sturgeon
as The Immigrant Father
Mary Fuller
as The Immigrant Mother
Viola Dana
as The Immigrant's Older Daughter
Edna May Weick
as The Immigrant's Young Daughter
Bigelow Cooper
as An Owner of a Mill
Robert Brower
as A Friend of Mr. Hanscomb
Barry O Moore
as An Unskilled Laborer
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