"FROM THE PEN OF "THE CITADEL'S" BOLD AUTHOR!"
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Davey Fenwick

Jenny Sunley

Joe Gowlan

Martha Fenwick - Davey's mother

Richard Barras - the mine owner

Robert Fenwick - Davey's father

Hughie Fenwick - Davey's brother

Arthur Barras - Barras' son
Stanley Millington

Mrs. Laura Millington

Harry Nugent, MP

Slogger Gowlan

Wept

Mrs. Sunley

Hudspeth

Strother

Pat Reedy

Will

Union Official

Mrs. Reedy
Miner

Mr. Wilkins

Mr. Ramage

Harry Brace
Headmaster Strother
Narrator (U.S. release only) (voice)

Miner at Rescue

Cinema Commissionaire

Man Outside Football Ground

1st Arresting Policeman
Union Committee Member
Looting Miner
Old Woman at Looting

Dickie - Butcher's Boy
2nd Arresting Policeman
Union Committee Chairman