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Labor's Reward - 1925 Film - Produced by AFL - A Piece of American Labor Movement & Union History

Labor’s Reward is probably the earliest surviving film sponsored by an American labor union. This film was produced by the American Federation of Labor and the Union Label Trades Department. Although only the third of five reels survives today (along with a shorter fragment), the reel makes for a relatively self-contained story. In the lost earlier reels a father is injured at a nonunion machine shop. Receiving no workers’ compensation, his distraught family must rely on the wages of the elder daughter, Mary, who toils at a nonunion bookbindery. As reel 3 begins, close friend Tom finds Mary bedridden from overwork. When Labor’s Reward was made back in 1925, the American labor movement was struggling after the suppression of more militant unions. Labor’s Reward was directly intended to turn the situation around by demonstrating the AFL’s “constructive methods” and by appealing to “the purchasing public” to buy union-made products. With its female focus, the film also addressed the AFL’s history of regarding women workers as low-paid competitors. It is women who here show Tom the importance of buying a hat with a union label. Widely advertised, Labor’s Reward was screened across America for free. The AFL-affiliated American Federation of Musicians provided the live accompaniment at most screenings. PLOT A motherless family is thrown into crisis when the father is injured at work. With no workers' compensation to fall back on, the eldest daughter, Mary, has to work long hours for low wages until she collapses. As a result, her coworkers band together to unionize.