- Owen and Ernest Wharton, sons of sweatshop owner James Wharton, become interested in two of their father's employees. Owen, a settlement worker, falls in love with Mary, while Ernest, a full time womanizer, makes her sister Amy his mistress. Another sister, Jane, grows increasingly consumptive, but when Mary asks James for some money for Jane's treatment, he refuses. Hearing of the trouble, Ernest offers money to Mary, but only if she too agrees to be his mistress. Enraged, Mary forces him at gunpoint, to marry Amy. Then Owen, knocked unconscious in an accident, calls out for Mary. James begs her to see Owen, but before agreeing to go, Mary makes him promise to improve sweatshop conditions. Finally, Owen recovers and he and Mary plan their marriage. Meanwhile, marriage has turned Ernest into a devoted husband, and James keeps his word about shop conditions.—Pamela Short
- Three sisters, Mary, Amy and Jane, live together in dire poverty. Mary has assumed the responsibility of caring for her other sisters, Amy, a moral weakling, and Jane, a chronic invalid, by working in a factory owned by Wharton. Ernest, the worthless son of Wharton, establishes Amy in an apartment of her own and the worry and anguish which Amy's terrible mistake causes her sisters result in a complete breakdown on the part of Jane. If Jane is not sent away, the doctor gives Mary no hope for her recovery. In her desperation, Mary makes a direct appeal to the elder Wharton, but is summarily dismissed from his home. Ernest, however, sees Mary and attempts to win her as he did Amy. The latter's suspicions aroused by Ernest's indifference, she arms herself and follows him to see who the new charmer might be. The sacrifices which she has made for Jane have necessitated Mary's removal from the old rooms to more humble quarters. So when Amy follows Ernest into a tenement house and confronts him with a revolver as he takes another girl in his arms, she is stunned to find that the girl is her own sister Mary. In a tremendous scene, Mary takes in the situation, and seizing the revolver from Amy's hand, she holds Ernest at bay while a minister is obtained. Then she slides behind a curtain and holds the gun at Ernest's back while he and Amy go through the marriage ceremony. Mary, meanwhile, has found a new and deep interest in Owen Wharton, Ernest's very manly brother. Owen is deeply in sympathy with the factory workers and even goes so far as to take a position in the plant under another name. When the rotten factory floor caves in, Owen is caught in the debris and seriously injured. Mary finds him and assists in saving his life. Of course, the father finally relents and changes his views on the subject of factory construction, and of daughters-in-law, but it is not until Mary has fought a few more battles.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Louise works in a New York sweatshop as a sewing-machine girl, alongside her sister Amy and Gertrude, who is sick from the work and deprivation. Louise struggles to keep them all alive. Amy is seduced and, until Louise's intervention, abandoned by the son of the shopowner. But the desperate circumstances take a great turn when the shopowner's other son, whom Louise loves, is injured in a cave-in at the shop.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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