Since he was seventeen, he had been working at the docks, right up to the present.
Although his position had been promoted, his salary hadn't increased much—it was barely above the Federation's standard wage, earning him forty-five and a half dollars.
For most workers, this salary was already not low, but for him, who had spent his lifetime to reach this wage, it was still too little.
This time striking, his personal demand was to raise his own salary to at least forty-seven dollars, his target was forty-eight dollars.
He supported the strike because he had two sons, the eldest was already married, and planning to have a child soon.
Whether his eldest son would move out from his home or not, it meant that the family's expenses would see a noticeable increase in the coming period.
One or two yuan might seem trivial, but what he wanted was not just one or two yuan, but to make the Dock Management Company acknowledge and accept a wage increase.
