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10 June 1939 (USA) morePlot:
A racketeer sets up an employment agency, and then sends his henchmen to lineup foremen in companies that employ unskilled labor... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
Unskilled labor does not pay much, either. moreCast
(Credited cast) | Tom Neal | ||
| Jo Ann Sayers | ||
| Arthur Hohl | ||
| Truman Bradley | ||
| Clem Bevans | ||
| Edward Pawley | ||
| Eddy Chandler | ||
| Arthur Loft | ||
| Cliff Clark | ||
| Leon Ames | ||
| Phillip Terry | ||
| Eddie Acuff | ||
| Lester Dorr |
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Entry number 23 in M-G-M's long-running "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts finds a racketeer setting up an employment agency, and then sending his henchmen to lineup foremen in companies that employ unskilled labor. The foreman is promised a cut on each new man he hires, and the agency gets a whooping percentage of the new employee's first month wages. The foremen then fire the last new-hires (he had to fire all the old hands to begin with)and then another batch of new-hires goes through the cycle. And another after a month. And this continues month-after-month, as this was 1939 and companies did not employ Human Resources/Relations people in 1939 to track employee turn-over..."Gotta a full crew...good...put'em to work." Anyway, there is no little amount of complaint going on in the unskilled-labor circles of the city and some of it reaches the ears of the District Attorney. He steps in, with the aid of a young unskilled-laborer (Tom Neal) who had been tricked, and finally runs the gangster out of the Employment Agency business, after a murder has been committed.
About the only subject M-G-M missed in this series was one covering gangster control of some of the Hollywood craft unions-and-casting agencies at the time.