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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
A student calls for refusing shipboard work after Mam's killing. The captain threatens to withhold food, while the engineer supports the protest and the student plans to write to the press.
The speaker connects the student's speech with a memory of defending the student from the seamen's scorn. The account includes officers' orders, the engineer's violence and the protesters' pact.
The pact after Mam's death. A 'young student of archecture' urges the men to 'work no more for these bums of men', the speaker recalls 'saving him from homosexual scorn', and the Captain answers 'we'll cut off their food for starters.' The page ends with the student's promise to send mail 'to the Cidney Times', 'making promise of revolution in the Union'.
The student becomes the moral leader of a small labor revolt, and the chief engineer's support gives it force. The speaker presents the revolt as both protest and theater.