Mac McLeod
Mentor to Jim Nolan, Mac is the communist labor operative who organizes the strike among fruit pickers. He is more practical than theoretical when applying communist ideology to the real world.
Jim Nolan
Nolan is spurred to become a communist activist as a result of his father being killed during a labor dispute and his subsequent hardship which had reaching a point near starvation. He is an eager and student of Mac’s organizational skills, but comes to believe that violent means sometimes become necessary to achieve ends. Ultimately, he becomes the victim of a violence himself, dying as the result of a shotgun blast to the head. Mac then uses Jim’s faceless corpse to inspire his comrades to action.
Doc Burton
Philosophical, apolitical, and sympathetic head of health at the strikers’ camp as well as being in charge of sanitation. Goes missing halfway through the strike and never reappears.
Alfred Anderson
The owner and operator of Al’s Lunch Wagon. Al is a vital part of the labor movement not only because he sympathizes with the worker, but because he dares to feed the striking members.
Dick
Charming so-called “bedroom radical” who uses his appeal with to women to get supplies for striking workers.
