During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement.
Frank Custer
Mattie
Supervisor
Thomas Joshua
Heavy Williams
Bremer
Lilah Dean
Emma
Meyer
Woman in Bar
Judge Alschuler
John Kikulski
Joe Hodges
John Spriggs
Frank Custer Jr.
James Cheeks
Dennis Lane
Policeman
Thomas Condon