According to Tom: Casy said, 'You got no right to starve people.' An' then this heavy fella called him a red son-of-a-bitch. An' Casy says, 'You don' know what you're a-doin.' An' then this guy smashed 'im.

Before his death, Casy serves as the leader of a strike of peach pickers who are unhappy about their wages. He dies at the hands of a policeman who is trying to break up the strike.