Once upon a time a man who had no job migrated to a city in order to find a job. when he entered the city gate, suddenly a bunch of  wild dogs attacked him. He decided to take a rock to throw the dogs, but it was too cold and all the rocks were frozen on the ground. He cried" what kind of city is this that they have tied all the rocks to the ground , and loosed all the dogs?"What a difficult job is fighting when all equipment is in the hand of enemy.They have money, guns, scabs vigilantes and...,.which make them powerful to fight against worker,while the workers have nothing ,which motivate them to fight against oppression.In dubious battle, the story happened in a small part of California named Torgas valley, a county which is in the hand of a few men..It occured at the late of the great Depression in 1930.At that time there were no large industries that support those huge workers to get jobs.So many of them had to imigrate to the agricultural areas such as Torgas valley to find a job to survive. Therfore with this huge number of applicants for work, the farms owners had an unlimited power to cut the wages as much as they wanted.They were sure that workers would get all the work done without any complaining.Despite owners assurance , a big strike started when an old apple-picker falls out of a unsafe ladder during his work. The strikers settled on the land of  Anderson,Al's father. Anderson  is a representative of a group of people who have a small thing and the least faciliteis to live, but they think they have everythings. His only fear is to lose his property."I am sorry for Anderson, but what the hell. If i can give up my whole life, he ought to be able to give a barn."(337) During this strike we witness that the enemy tries to defeat the strikers with different kind of tricks.First they try to prevent them to get food, then they hired vigilante to suppress the strikers, And after that they resort to fire the places by their own people, and kill them in order to provoke them  to do something wrong ,thoughtless and illegal, so they could put an end on the Strike forever.