When employers refused to give in to the workers' demands, the poverty-stricken masses were left struggling to support themselves and their families, and the tale focuses on individual responses to the suffering all around them.
Guest Stars:
Peter Ustinov
Larkin comes under attack from his own union hierarchy and defies the police to speak to the blackleg workers in the docks, urging them to join the strike.
Relations between Fathers O'Connor and Giffley worsen and the struggle for survival in the city continues.