Summary

Chapter 3. Dick tells Mac Joy has been arrested. Mac immediately gives him instructions for getting Joy out of jail, a job he cannot do himself because he has to make preparations to leave the next day for the Torgas Valley to try to organize a strike among the apple pickers there. He has been given permission to take Jim along and train him to do field work.

Chapter 4. When they reach Torgas, Mac and Jim get a free meal at Al’s Lunch Wagon, a diner owned by a local sympathizer. Then they walk to the apple pickers’ “jungle” and join a group around the campfire, where they find out the men travel with an unofficial leader named London and his daughter-in-law, Lisa, is about to give birth in a nearby tent. Mac immediately sees an opportunity to establish a rapport with the men he...