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.
Cast
Damien Leake
Frank Custer
Alfre Woodard
Mattie
Dennis Farina
Supervisor
Ernest Rayford
Thomas Joshua
Moses Gunn
Heavy Williams
Clarence Felder
Bremer
Mary Alice
Lilah Dean
Cynthia Baker
Emma
Gerry Becker
Meyer
Wanda Christine
Woman in Bar
Nathan Davis
Judge Alschuler
Henryk Derewenda
John Kikulski
Phillip East
Joe Hodges
Paul Eaton
John Spriggs
Jason Green
Frank Custer Jr.
Stephen McKinley Henderson
James Cheeks
Gene Janson
Dennis Lane
Richard Lavin
Unknown
Ted Levine
Policeman
John Mahoney
Thomas Condon
Patrick Nugent
Jack Johnstone
James O'Reilly
John Fitzpatrick
Ward Ohrman
Secretary of Labor
Jeris Poindexter
Lonnie
Barbara Redlinski
Michalina Michora
Frank Rice
Dewitt Washington
Rob Riley
Nelson Morris
Vernon R. Schwartz
Jimmy O'Rourke
Miklos Simon
Michora
Connie Szerszen
Hysterical Woman
Wally Taylor
Robert Bedford
Letitia Toole
Mrs. Bethea
James Vallo
Army Man
Bill Blair
Dock Security Guard (uncredited)
Mitch Gora
Neighborhood Tough (uncredited)
Paula Slade
Mother (uncredited)
Robert Minkoff
Extra (uncredited)
Damian Ehrlicher
Immigrant (uncredited)
Marie Preiser Ehrlicher
Union House Immigrant (uncredited)
Richard Ehrlicher
Union House Immigrant (uncredited)
Crew
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