Part 2, Chapter 24 Summary

The next morning Carlos walks around the town feeling like a new man. He goes to the house where Max apparently shot the man living with his wife. He knocks on the door and the woman invites him in. The woman is married to a Filipino named Pascual and they run a small newspaper. While they are talking, Jose and Gazamen appear. Jose is now active in organizing the Filipino workers. Carlos goes to work for Pascual writing articles for the newspaper under the penname of Carl, given to him by Pascual.

When Pascual suffers a stroke, Jose and Carlos take over the editorial duties on the paper. The wife and Gazamen work as the newspaper's business managers. They have to sell subscriptions and advertising space for the paper. When the pea pickers have a strike in Pismo Beach, they make...