. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... DATES OF BEGINNING OF WHEAT HARVESTIN AVERA6E YEAR -SPRING WHEAT DATE LiNES k\iNER ^HtAT 0*TC VINES times the supply of labor needed, while anadjoining region may be practically withoutmigrant hands. This fact, coupled with theprevalent labor agreement, which is full of un-certainties and opportunities for misunder-standing, causes great differences in wages toprevail throughout the gi-ain belt. THE WHENCE AND WHITHEROF THE HARVEST MIGRATION I SUGAR BEITS CONSTOUCTION WORK y J MINES
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... DATES OF BEGINNING OF WHEAT HARVESTIN AVERA6E YEAR -SPRING WHEAT DATE LiNES k\iNER ^HtAT 0*TC VINES times the supply of labor needed, while anadjoining region may be practically withoutmigrant hands. This fact, coupled with theprevalent labor agreement, which is full of un-certainties and opportunities for misunder-standing, causes great differences in wages toprevail throughout the gi-ain belt. THE WHENCE AND WHITHEROF THE HARVEST MIGRATION I SUGAR BEITS CONSTOUCTION WORK y J MINES 1 \ /-J LUMBER I ^\ ^^{ P,CK,MO ^!^^^^p^\/^VX. LUMBER MINESFARMS SCHOOLINDUSTRY INDUSTRYSCHOOL TARMSLUMBER OCCUPATIONS AND DIRECTIONS FROM WHICH HASVEST MIGRANTS COME: TO WHICH HARVEST MIGRANTS GO O CEMTPAL LABOR MARKETS IN WHICH MIGRANTS CONCENTRATE 5. It is the nature of harvest work that thereshould be much time lost from weather con-ditions, from waits between jobs and fromtime consumed in traveling. As the men inthe harvest fields are paid by the hour, thesedelays are of great importance. As the harvesters demobilize, one streamof men turns southwestward and seeks em-ployment in mining and railroad construc-tion or in agricultural work in the sugar-beetfields and fruit areas, even going as far as thePacific Coast. A larger number work their way south,turningto mining and lumbering or continuing agri-cultural work as corn pickers. 106 Migrant Groups: HOME MISSIONS Thus they move on from one field of labor toanother—a restless, roving group of workers. EASTERN MIGRATIONS THE Atlantic Coast states have a smalleragricultural mi
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