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Ship labor, racialized hierarchy, and the threat of organized refusal meet in a short page about hauling dung and calling a boycott.

The page is brief but pointed. It links degrading labor to domination by the captain and mate, then turns abruptly toward collective action on the dock, as if exploitation at sea naturally produces the idea of union resistance ashore. The crossed-out draft words do not interrupt that stable movement.

Two compact movements. First the cover-up: 'The captain and his mate / manipulated the blacks / for the task / of hauling and scraping the / dung' before they 'dared / the Cidney run into inspection.' Then a sudden swerve to plain present-tense intention - 'He wants me to lead / a union boycott / on the dock' - condensing the student-sailor's whole revolt into a single proposed act and pulling it from sea to shore. This reading stays provisional because the page is scan-review needs-followup with one unstable handwritten phrase still uncertain.