Summary

Chapter 7. Dick and Doc Burton arrive the next morning. Mac immediately sends Dick off to town to contact sympathizers and collect supplies for the strikers, then gives Burton directions for setting up a camp on Anderson’s land.

The orchard superintendent arrives with an offer to let the men go back to work if London will get rid of the “reds” who are creating trouble among the pickers. After offering bribes to London, Jim, and Mac for their cooperation, he threatens reprisals if his offers are refused. Informing the superintendent the men have been invited to camp on some private land, Mac counters with his own threat: If anything happens to either Anderson or his ranch, every house and barn on every ranch in the Valley will burn to the ground.

Chapter 8. The strikers hold their big meeting at the new camp on Anderson’s...