First produced in 1909, Strife is the characterization of conflicts between industrial workers and their would-be masters. A great strike has been in progress for several months at Trenartha Tin Plate Works, on the borders of England and Wales., and we are shown the effects of this strike at their culmination, within constricted period of six hours.

The strikers are led by David Roberts, a crude, enthusiastic, single- minded workman, who has a grievance against the company because it has paid him insufficiently for a valuable invention that he has devised. Robert's demands are excessive, and he has therefore lost the support of the trades union, represented by a diplomatic walking delegate named Simon Harness.

The workmen themselves has grown disaffected under the hardships and privations of protracted disemployment, and are held to the cause only by the force of Robert's fiery fanatism. The directors are led by John Anthony, and elderly, iron-minded man, the founder of the company, and for two and thirty years its president. He has fought and put down four preceding strikes, and its absolutely inflexible in his attitude toward the present insurrection. His directors, however, are becoming worried over the losses to the company and the prospective necessity of passing the next dividend.