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…showed last 75 words of 1056 total…that they are in, working on the plantations. They wanted to be treated right and to be paid sufficiently and not to be thought as just inferior laborer. These workers retaliated by striking, vandalizing, and using displays of clever actions including faking illness and pretending to work. All in all, it was a struggle in both directions. In one direction, trying to keep low wages and the other, to raise wages and quality of life.