... the power of the workers to blackmail the merchant companies who use the harbor. A good example is by threatening strikes when the goods are perishable, like the bananas. We see Johnny Friendly's "banker-, Morgan, who forces the men into loaning money at extortionate rates of interest. It seems that this behavior is in no way in opposition to the practices of ... racket is not state controlled and that American government does not profit from it. "It's like it ain't even America-, like the criminals have their own separate state with America. Johnny's sob story is reminiscent of countle...

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