today, fat man.
- Hey!
- Don't.
What gives with our boy tonight,
Charley? He ain't himself.
It's just the Joey Doyle thing
and how he exaggerates some things.
Just too much Marquis
of Queensbury. It softens him up.
Listen, kid. I'm a soft touch too.
Ask any rummy on the dock
if I ain't good for a fin...
...anytime they put the arm on me.
But my old lady raised us 10 kids
on a stinking watchman's pension.
When I was 16, I had to beg
for work in the hold.
I didn't work my way up
out of there for nothing.
I know that, Johnny. I know it.
Taking over this local
took a little doing.
There were some rough fellas
in the way.
- They gave me this to remember them.
- He had to keep his hand...
...over his throat to live,
and he still went after them.
- I know it.
- I know what's eating you.
Well, I got 2000 dues-paying
members in this local.
That's 72,000 a year, legitimate.
When each one of them puts
in a couple bucks a day...
...just to make sure
the work's steady...
...well, figure it out.
And that's just for openers.
We got the fattest piers...
...and the fattest harbor in the world.
Everything moves in and out,
we take our cut.
Why shouldn't we? If we can get it.
We're entitled to it.
You don't suppose I can afford to be
boxed out of a deal like this, do you?
A deal I sweated and bled for...
...on account of one lousy little
cheese-eater, that Doyle bum...
...who thinks he can go squealing
to the Crime Commission, do you?
Well, do you?
No, Johnny. I just figured
I should have been told...
I make it 2623.
You're 50 short, Skins.
- Give me.
- I must have miscounted.
Give me.
Give me!
You come from Greenpoint.
Go back to Greenpoint.
You don't work here no more.
Here, kid. Here's half a bill.
Go get your load on.
- No, I'm okay, Johnny. Thanks.
- Present from your Uncle Johnny.
And Mac...
...tomorrow morning
when you shape the men...
...put Terry up in the loft.
Number one. Every day.
It's nice, easy work.
You check in, and you goof off
on a coffee bag, okay?
Okay.
Hey.
You got a real friend here.
Now don't forget it.
Why should he forget it?
Yeah. Thanks, Johnny.
All right, payday.
Barney.
Mac.
Truck.
Hi, Terry.
- Hiya, kid.
- I was just gonna feed them.
- I already fed them.
- You must've been up early, huh?
I was up anyhow,
so I figured I might as well.
They sure got it made, huh?
Eating, sleeping,
flying around like crazy...
...raising gobs of squabs.
Well, I better get over there.
Don't spill no water on the floor...
...because I don't want them
to catch cold.
I'll see you around, huh?
Come on, Tony, give me the tabs.
- He was a good boy, that Doyle kid.
- Sure. That's why he got it in the head.
Yeah, but he couldn't learn
to keep his mouth shut.
Hey, Pop.
Hey, Pop, why don't you go home?
- The boys working today will chip in.
- That's right, Pop.
No thanks, fellas. Who do you think'll
pay for the funeral?
Johnny Friendly,
that great labor leader.
That's a good one.
- Keep that big mouth of yours shut.
- What are you, a wise guy?
If I was wise, I wouldn't be
no longshoreman for 30 years...
...and poorer now
than when I started.
- Wise guy.
- Big mouth.
- Don't mess with those guys.
- Oh, here.
I brought you Joey's windbreaker.
Might come in handy.
Go ahead, wear it.
Thanks, Pop. Mine's more full of holes
than the Pittsburgh infield.
Hey, Joe. I got a coat for you.
- He asked hard questions.
- That was years ago, though.
- He asked hard questions.
- That was years ago, though.
Do you know Terry Malloy?
- No, I don't know him.
- Never heard of him.
Say, you're Terry Malloy, aren't you?
So what?
Didn't I see you fight
a couple of years ago?
All right, without the birdseed.
What do you want?
Our identification.
Waterfront Crime Commission.
What's that?
I just want to ask you
a few questions.
We're holding hearings
on waterfront crime...
...and underworld infiltration
of the longshore