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Q. Federal laws give workers the right to strike, but Mac complains that local laws take the claws out of that right. How?
They don't allow workers to gather.
They allow the Growers to force strikers back to work.
They don't allow workers to picket.
They don't allow workers to influence townspeople.
Q. Why does Mac need Doc Burton to set up camp and be present at all times?
The health department can evict them if sanitation isn't properly monitored.
Anderson demands that a doctor keep disease from spreading to his house.
The Growers won't allow them to stay in the county without a doc present.
It's in the workers' contracts to have a doctor available at all times.
Q. How do the police limit the movement of the strikers?
They won't allow the strikers to parade on local roads.
They won't allow the strikers to go into town.
They won't allow the strikers access to the train station.
They won't allow the strikers to leave the campsite.
Q. Dick says that he has had to call in a replacement for himself, because he's about to get "vagged." What the heck does this mean?
flagged by the local authorities as a Communist
attacked by angry former sympathizers
lynched by the vigilantes in town
arrested for vagrancy (hanging around with no $)
Q. Why do the police want to take Joy's body to the coroner, rather than allow Mac to take it back to the camp?
They know the workers can't give him a proper burial.
They want to charge the strikers with murder; they need evidence.
They want to make sure that all the county paperwork is in order.
Mac is not the next of kin: he has no right to the body.