Desc: Motel the Operator: Directed by Joseph Seiden. With Chaim Tauber, Seymour Rechzeit, Yetta Zwerling, Jacob Zanger. Motl, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide.