In Dubious Battle Page #7

Cover yourselves up!

Keep going!

Keep going!

Stand your ground!

Come on!

Keep going!

Go back to camp!

Let's go! Let's go!

There is only one way

to get through a barricade.

- We all go at it at once.

- That's right.

The whole bunch of us and then

they can't stop us.

Right? They'll knock

one or two of us,

but we'll get through for sure.

We got nothing.

They got gas, clubs, guns.

We can't fight that

with our bare hands.

You let them rob you,

you let them beat you,

you let them shoot you,

now they got you trapped like

rats and you still won't fight?

I will go back there right now!

Right now!

Now, who's with me?

None of you?

I try to help you!

I give you so goddamn much!

Calm down, Mac.

Come on, Mac.

- You just sit there!

- All right.

Move! Move! Move!

All right, all right, Mac.

Mac! Mac! Mac!

Move! Move!

Goddamn it, let's go.

Move! Move! Move!

Let's go.

Calm the hell down.

Come on.

Goddamn it.

All right, I lost my head

back there.

I'm just so goddamn tired.

Well, you gotta

get some rest, Mac.

- You haven't slept in days.

- Yeah, I know,

but that's not gonna help,

all right?

These guys won't even

fight for themselves.

I saw guys

just like that in the war

go through a machine gun

nest with their bare hands.

These guys won't even

take on a few green deputies.

Mac, take a blow. You'll feel

better when you wake up.

No, I won't feel better

because I'll wake up

in the same goddamn mess.

The strike won't hold

if we don't get supplies

down that road, Mac.

You think I don't know that?

Why doesn't somebody else

come up with a plan!

How about that?

So, what do you say?

Hmm?

You do it?

Is he gonna do it?

Yeah, he'll do it.

Right, Vinnie?

Yeah, I'll do it,

but I just don't want to see

anybody get hurt.

What do you care

about those red bastards?

Yeah, you're right.

They talked a big game

in the beginning,

but I came here to work,

not play politics.

Hey, Vinnie, I don't...

I don't think this

is such a good idea.

Hey.

It's all right.

Hey, look, I know a guy.

He can get you a job,

and it's a good job.

But first you gotta put

our money where your mouth is.

Well, you said you'd do

anything for me.

Didn't you?

I don't know about you guys,

when I signed up for this,

I thought we was

gonna have some results!

Not just camping out here,

starving to death like

a bunch of prisoners!

I'm goddamn sick of it!

Anybody else

goddamn sick of this?

Yeah!

Look at that guy down there.

That's the guy that started

all this,

- am I right?

- Yeah.

What's going on here?

He forced us to strike

and then sat in his tent

and ate canned peaches

while we got wet

and lived off garbage

a pig wouldn't touch.

What the hell

you talking about, Burke?

We all know about

the deal you made.

Don't try to deny it.

We know you'd just do whatever

that little girl of yours says.

She's got you wrapped around

her little finger so tight...

Anybody else?

Well, come on, then!

Hey!

Go ahead!

Who else wants to say

I double crossed them?

Well, go ahead!

It ain't right.

Anybody else want to say

something about my family?

That ain't right.

That ain't right.

That ain't right!

What you doing about it?

Hey, you ain't happy

- with how this strike is going?

- No!

- You want to change that?

- Yes!

You have to fight for that,

goddamn it.

All right,

because men like that,

they're trying to tear us apart.

They're trying to hold us back.

- No more.

- No more!

- No more!

- No more!

- The time for waiting is done!

- Yeah!

They think they can just pen us

in like little pigs.

- Are we pigs?

- No!

No! You're angry at this man,

London?

Well, he's gonna go smash

those barricades

with his bare hands,

if necessary.

You're damn right.

We're gonna get that truck

and we're gonna drive it

right through them!

Yeah, you wanna drive

that truck right through?

Yeah!

- Are we pigs?

- No!

- Are we pigs?

- No!

- Are we pigs?

- No!

- Are we pigs?

- No!

- Are we gonna fight?

- Yeah!

Frank, take out the driver.

Take out the driver, frank!

Take him out!

Take him out!

We said we were gonna

come through that barricade,

and what did we do?

We went through that barricade!

Everyone left to get shot

at the barricade.

Yeah.

He won't stop crying.

Hey.

My grandma used to do this.

Ahem, here.

There you go.

He's gonna need a father.

I was gonna ask Jim

to build a house with me

when this is all over with.

I thought

he'd make a good father.

Well...

That ain't gonna happen.

Kid's got the fever now.

He's gonna stay at this thing

until he's arrested

or shot, isn't he?

He's a tough kid.

He'll be all right.

Are you gonna turn him

cold like you?

Lisa.

Jim.

Sh*t.

Hey, Jimmy!

Let's do it! Let's do it!

Jim!

Jim.

Sorry.

I knew you were sweet on her.

It's not her, it's me.

Just so goddamn lonely,

I thought a little warmth

would help.

It's okay, she's not my girl.

It's not okay.

I'm a selfish son of a b*tch,

and I know it.

Mac, it's okay.

I appreciate the lesson.

Thank you.

Lesson? What lesson?

Well, you always told me that

there's no time or place

for liking people,

and thank you

for helping me see that.

She's just a girl.

She's not important.

The job's what matters.

Okay.

Now I got work to do.

Turning into a proper

son of a b*tch, ain't you?

Just like you taught me.

Jim?

Don't you know I care about you?

Yeah.

Funny way of showing it.

I'm sorry.

I was scared.

What were you scared of?

Of all of this.

I was scared I was

gonna lose you too.

You never had me.

I'm here for the cause.

Hush, keep your voices down.

Show me what you got,

country boy.

It's just this one thing.

Vinnie, I really

don't want to do this.

Time's wasting. Let's go.

What about the guard?

Don't you worry about him.

That's my girl.

Hey.

Uh, I was supposed to tell you,

the big guy, uh, London?

He wants you back at camp.

Nah, he asked me

to stay on all night.

That's what he told me.

Vinnie, I really

don't want to do this.

Quiet.

Take this. Just in case.

What?

You don't have to use it.

Just keep an eye out.

Go on.

Sh*t, sh*t.

Stay down.

Vinnie, Vinnie, we really

shouldn't be doing this.

You keep watch, all right?

Come on, come on.

Aw, Jesus god.

Oh, those bastards.

Aw, Christ!

Run, you stupid farm boy!

Fire! Fire! Somebody!

Fire!

Keller, you rat!

London, no, London!

Where were you, boy?

I was here, I was here,

I was here, but then you sent

that girl to come and get me.

Girl? What girl? What girl?

I don't know who she was.

She was just some girl.

By the time I had got here,

it already had started.

Aw, Jesus!

You get some men and

you flush out them woods,

you sweep the camp,

you find out who did this.

- Go do it now, boy!

- Okay.

Anderson.

Anderson.

It's on us, Mac.

This is on us.

That day, when that suit came,

what did you tell them

if they touch that old man?

If Anderson gives the word,

we'll be officially trespassing.

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