"The Screen Club of Brussels Presents" "MISERY IN THE BORINAGE" "A Crisis in the Capitalist World" "Factories are closed, abandoned and millions of the proletariat go hungry." "Capitalists make nothing on coffee, wheat and milk so destroy these foodstuffs, denied to millions of the unemployed." "The present economic system is in a state of anarchy." "Coffee is thrown into the sea." "Corn is being burned." "Miners revolt, Ambridge, Pennsylvania, 1933." "Police, dressed as civilians, armed with guns, provoke a fight." "In the Borinage," "We've had enough!" "So cry the miners of the Borinage in 1932." "Down with the crisis God doesn't want death and starving children any more than women do." "On July 10, 210,000 strikers from all industries." "For the miners victory, for the victory of the working class..." "The strikers found original ways to fight assemblies of more than five being prohibited they came together on doorsteps under the pretext of playing cards." "A night of anguish and distress." "No more doubt:" "It's a revolutionary uprising." "It is a general strike." "Louis Tayenne, born November 2, 1909 killed July 10, 1932 at Roux during the strike defending the working class." "Repression is harsh:" "No one is unemployed at the courthouse in Mons." "After the strike, the owners raised factory walls and surrounded them with a network of electric wires." "Rationalization." "Two miners asphyxiated at Hornu." "To economize on production costs the collieries neglect security measures." "This results in a frightening increase in the number of accidents." "In 1932, 204 workers were killed." "From July 1930 to March 1932 workers' salaries were reduced five times." "This fifteen-year-old miner doesn t work above ground level but in the damp, deep corridors of the mine to earn an extra 5 francs for his widowed mother." "This way he receives a weekly salary of 73.50 francs five days a week, eight hours a day." "Twenty francs a week for lodging paid to the mining company." "Fifty francs to sustain a family of four for a week." "Above ground, he had a daily salary of 12.70 francs." "The utilities have not been paid." "There is no water, no electricity." "The inhabitants drink stagnant water from the cistern or the flooded basement." "For fuel they use the mud that remains after washing coal which only burns when mixed with wood." "Since there is no money for wood shutters, fences, and floorboards are used as fuel." "After the strike, a miner, like so many others is evicted from his home for not paying the rent to the owner, the mining company." "The evicted family, whose mother is pregnant spends four nights out in the open." "The neighbors do not dare shelter the evicted renters." "Solidarity." "The worker, being unorganised, ends up in the gutter." "Work is refused to the strikers." "Repression has no pity, and the evictions continue." "Of 330 homes, 200 stay empty." "The bailiff comes to the house dressed as a worker so that he will be let in." "By leaning on the furniture, they prevent anything being taken." "The miners solidarity has prevented the eviction at least for the moment." "Public sale of the seized furniture in the square at La Bouverie." "Abandoning usable workers' homes, which stay empty the miners must stay in ruined barracks like those of the Fonds du Roi Albert." "A sharp contrast: these slums with no light are located at the base of pylons carrying cables with enormous amounts of electrical current." "V.D., a miner with a child has not worked for two years and receives fifty francs a week for support money." "The Museum of Hygiene" "Workers families are lodged in barracks and old pigsties near a large church under construction." "A family of twelve must live on 175 francs a week." "The father has been unemployed for three years." "Barrack #12 has been emptied in order to store the bricks for the House of God in a dry place." "Church construction will cost three million francs." "H.T., a miner on strike for fourteen weeks is a member of a Christian union and has a family of six to care for." "Visit by a doctor sent by a workers organization." "The children s mental debilitation is as sad as their physical weakness." "A six year old child can t even perform a simple task separating white buttons from black ones." "The effects of unemployment threaten all miners with the same degradation." "In these homes one suffers not only from hunger but also from cold." "In this coal-rich region, there is no coal for the proletariat." "They must find bad coal in the slag heaps." "They are waiting there for their turn at two in the morning." "Enormous stocks of coal, estimated at more than four million tons lie rotting in the vicinity of the workers' houses." "The stocks grow, as does the number of unemployed." "But the working classes do not forget that only the daily and tenacious struggle will improve their faith." "A committee of unemployed leads the fight for the distribution of coal." "Different partial strikes follow one after another." "Demonstration at Wasmes on the 50th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx." "Since the demonstration was prohibited the workers form small groups." "The proletariat knows that the contrasts and misery in the Borinage as in all of Belgium as in all the world are the results of capitalism." "They know that humanity will only be safe from this disorder and from the exploitation of their fellow man through the dictatorship of the proletariat and the realization of socialism." "THE END"