After the elections, Jurgis continues his work in the yards. At this point, he has three hundred dollars in the bank. He inquires about Elzbieta and the family and learns they have gone downtown, and he gives no more thought to them. He begins to gamble and drink heavily.
Then a strike happens. Jurgis keeps going to his job anyway, after asking a political boss whom he has met named Scully for another job. Jurgis feels disloyal in going to his job, but he soon becomes a boss, and then he doesn't mind.
The workmen are kept within the stockyards because the angry mobs of workmen outside would have torn them to pieces. Soon, new men arrive, shipped from all over, to do the jobs that.....
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