The country church in industrial zones; the effects of industrialism upon the church life of adjacent rural areas as illustrated by two typical counties . AN ENLIGHTENED CANNERY OWNER Mr. W. E. Robinson, of Bel Air, and some of the Polish women and children whohave benefited by the social work carried on at his cannery. 83 THE COUNTRY CHURCH IN INDUSTRIAL ZONES Canning by Nationality Since the work is seasonal and intermittent, and does not re-quire skilled labor or command high pay, the laborers available forit are foreigners of recent importation and a low stage of develop-ment. Most of thos
The country church in industrial zones; the effects of industrialism upon the church life of adjacent rural areas as illustrated by two typical counties . AN ENLIGHTENED CANNERY OWNER Mr. W. E. Robinson, of Bel Air, and some of the Polish women and children whohave benefited by the social work carried on at his cannery. 83 THE COUNTRY CHURCH IN INDUSTRIAL ZONES Canning by Nationality Since the work is seasonal and intermittent, and does not re-quire skilled labor or command high pay, the laborers available forit are foreigners of recent importation and a low stage of develop-ment. Most of those employed in Harford are Poles: there arealso a few Germans, Bohemians, and Slavs. For the sake of har-mony, efforts are made to have all the people at a given canneryof the same nationality and religion. The canner tells his rowboss how many workers he will need, and the row boss hiresthem through an agency in WHERE THE TOMATOES MEET THE CANS This is the unloading shed of a typical cannery at which the newly picked vegetahles are received. The length of working season depends on what crops, and howmany crops are canned. Canneries dealing only with tomatoes arein operation from about the middle of August until frost time,which here comes about the middle of October. Establishmentscanning only corn run from the middle of August for five or sixweeks. Those that can beans as well as corn or tomatoes may openas early as July 20; and those canneries that follow tomatoes withapples may continue to work almost until Christmas. The workingseason, therefore, varies from five or six weeks to several months. In the shacks where the people are housed, single rooms, sep- 84 SEEVICE TO MIGRANTS arated only by wooden partitions, are occupied by entire beds are raised boxes filled with straw. In some cases, therooms are open in front, making the whole structure like a row ofhorse sheds. The wom
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