In the morning, the men are apathetic, and Mac worries that the strike will break. Dakin and London send out squads of fifty men to find strikebreakers, just to give them something to do besides fight among themselves. Jim goes with a group that includes Sam, who brags that he was in the Bloody Thursday riot in San Francisco and now is blacklisted as a longshoreman.
The group spots some pickers and accosts them. Sam disarms the checker, beats him a bit and kicks him between the legs hard. They beat up a bunch of the scabs until somebody arrives shooting. Jim is hit in the shoulder, but the bullet goes clear through.
Dakin is out, since he goes mad when vigilantes ambush the strikers while picking up blankets and destroy his truck. He is.....
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