- An agitator's wife kidnaps a mine owner's baby when her own dies during a strike.
- His intemperate habits cause Buck Evans to be discharged from John Henderson's coal mine, at which he was employed. In a very short time, he arouses the sympathy of his fellow-workers to such a degree over his dismissal that a general strike is declared. The men refuse to return to work unless Buck Evans is reinstated. Repeated efforts on the part of the mine foreman, Mark Grimsby, to induce the owner of the mine to reinstate Evans and end the strike, prove unavailing and conditions among the works become critical. The foreman makes a final appeal to Henderson, who offers to settle the controversy by a throw of the dice. Fate decrees that the strike shall continue and the foreman gives up, having done all in his power to bring the contending factions to an agreement. The baby boy of Buck Evans dies as a result of his father being unable to provide sufficiently for him. Driven mad with grief. Buck Evans' wife steals Henderson's baby, which occupies the one soft spot in his heart, and conceals it. She then returns and after telling Henderson, how, as the result of his game of dice, her own baby died, she declares that she will now play him for the life of his child. The die is cast and the woman wins. She rushes off to slaughter her enemy's child. Henderson follows and comes upon her with his baby just after her better nature had prevailed upon her to spare the youngster and she returns it to its father. Buck Evans, who still continues drinking, falls down a steep railway embankment and is killed. The way is thus cleared for a happy settlement of affairs. The men return to work, while Mrs. Evans is installed as foster-mother to the child, whom she once sought to injure, but now has grown to love.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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