IMMIGRANTS ARE LURED, FOOLED BY U. S. WAGES
Robinson, Mary V.
IMMIGRANTS ARE LURED, FOOLED BY U.S. WAGES Survey Shows That Foreigners Have Been Disillusioned Here BY MARY V. ROBINSON United States Women's Bureau In a survey of 2,146 wage-earning wo-' men...
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...Too often the women interviewed were living in a crowded house devoid of all modem conveniences, located perhaps in a blind alley, and bearing the earmarks of distressing poverty, The j kitchen in a number of instances answered also for dining room, living room and bedroom...
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...In Philadelphia more than three-fifths failed to measure up to the requirement...
...An analysis of the data collected in the Women's Bureau study shows that for the Lehigh Valley, even when several families live cooperatively in a house of six rooms or more are considered as one household, that one-half of the dwellings visited fell below this standard...
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...Eleven houses were encountered with 12, 1 or 15 people occupying six rooms...
...The bureau of municipal research, in Philadelphia, recommended as a standard for the housing of the wage-earners' family in health and decency a six-room house facing a street and containing a bath room, laundry tubs, furnace and facilities for cooking and lighting with gas...
...In the Lehigh Valley, it was not uncommon to find two, three, or more families occupying a house built for a single family, the one kitchen serving as a community room where each woman cooked her family's meals on the common stove and where everybody congregated...
...A mere glance around homes visited disclose that in many instances these immigrants have fallen far short of their goal...
...WAGES Survey Shows That Foreigners Have Been Disillusioned Here BY MARY V. ROBINSON United States Women's Bureau In a survey of 2,146 wage-earning wo-' men who were born overseas and are living in certain sections of Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley, "better living'' was frequently the reason given for coming to America...
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Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
