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Title: The Survey April-September 1920
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Survey Associates Charity Organization Society of the City of New York
Subjects: Charities Social problems
Publisher: (East Stroudsburg, Pa., Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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y dont know English.They know how to till the soil, and they could do betterfor themselves and for the country on the land. But theiridea is money. Here there is always payday every week.The choirmaster of one of the large Russian churches said, You should have seen them at home on the farms of Ga-licia. Such rosy cheeks! Here they get pale, working in themills. Working in the mills is a matter of course to the foreignwomen of Passaic. The Russian choirmasters wife was talk-ing about weddings in the church. Saturday is the greatday for weddings, she said. And often the bride goesback to the mill on Monday. Seems like the men here dependon their wives working. It wasnt that way in Pennsylvania,where I came from. It wasnt that way here so much untillately. Lots of the ladiesused to stay at home, butnow with the high pricesand high rent and every-thing—theyre all in themills. Here the mendont make much in the SKETCHES BY ABBYE. UNDERWOOD FROMPHOTOGRAPHS MADEFOR THE SURVEY BYHTRAM MYERS
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£sJnW;i;!iiJ-«- 463 464 THE SURVEY FOR JULY 3, 1920 1 mills. I have a friend who makes $30 to $35 a week, while herhusband only makes $23. How could they live on the $23?There arent so many weddings as there used to be. Thereare no more foreign girls coming in, and most of them aremarried and some have decided theres no good in marrying,when they have to work in the mills anyhow. Its easier notto be married. At the Passaic Day Nursery I received some light on theproblems of the married women workers. The matron said, We are always besieged by women mill workers whosehusbands are also working, who want us to care for theirchildren. It is against our rules to care for children whenboth parents are working. But lately we have begun to letsome of these children come. We can hardly refuse them,with the cost of living and rent so high, and when the womensay they simply cant get along on just the fathers wages.There is going to be a new day nursery soon. The GeraMills are going to have one

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