Jurgis keeps his job as a hog trimmer. In May, the unions and the packers clash and a huge strike begins. Scully, the guy that got him into the whole politics mess, denounces the packers in the papers, so Jurgis asks for another job while he strikes with the rest. Scully tells him to be a scab and make as much as he can out of it. Jurgis argues for a wage of three dollars a day and receives it. The packers hire all of the thugs in the city and import scabs from all over the country, including a significant number of southern blacks. Jurgis is offered a position as a boss on the killing beds. The packers are desperate to provide fresh meat in order to keep public opinion from turning against them. Jurgis receives a higher wage and the promise that he will have the job after the strike. Nevertheless, the packers feel pressure from the public to settle. They reach an agreement with the union, but the packers break their promise to not discriminate against union leaders. In response, the workers return to striking. During the storm of debauchery that follows, Jurgis comes face to face with Phil Connor in Packingtown. Without thinking, he viciously attacks Connor. Jurgis calls Harper from his jail cell only to discover that Connor is one of Scully's favorites. Harper can do nothing for him except get his bail lowered so that Jurgis can pay it. He advises Jurgis to skip town. Jurgis pays his bail, which leaves him with less than four dollars, and he travels to the other end of Chicago. The end of part two. I'm very sorry if this was boring, I wrote a really good one before but my computer is being a major henderence and is no joke bringing me on the verge of insanity because it had deleted everthing I wrote on this posting, and this is not the first time at all of it doing so. So I ashamely admit having copied and pasting sparknotes and changed around a few things from that, I hope you can understand though for my reasoning.
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