On Strike

Workers at an Eveready battery factory are disgruntled because their wages are low compared to a neighbouring factory. The factory manager exploits the workers’ rising discontent by colluding with a traitor within the workers’ ranks to instigate a strike in the factory, part of a devious ploy to take over the factory from the benevolent but incapacitated factory owner/boss. The colluders create dismal working conditions and make use of every opportunity and incident to raise the call for a strike, to sour industrial relations in a bid to close the factory down so that they can coerce the boss to hand over ownership.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

87 min

Cast:

Ahmad Mahmud, Saadiah, S. Kadarisman

Quality:

HD

Director:

K. M. Basker

Release:

1957

Country:

Singapore

Rating:

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