World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . all lawbreakers—individuals, crowds or mobs. MIGRANT GROUPS ONE hundred and seventy thousand more men are employed in the manu-facturing industries of New York State in January than in October;140,000 more persons are engaged in canning and preserving fruits andvegetables in September than in February. Kansas alone asks for 120,000 migratoryworkers annually in the wheat fields. Thus run the records of the most recentfederal and state reports. The truth is that much of the work of the
World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget .. . all lawbreakers—individuals, crowds or mobs. MIGRANT GROUPS ONE hundred and seventy thousand more men are employed in the manu-facturing industries of New York State in January than in October;140,000 more persons are engaged in canning and preserving fruits andvegetables in September than in February. Kansas alone asks for 120,000 migratoryworkers annually in the wheat fields. Thus run the records of the most recentfederal and state reports. The truth is that much of the work of the world is seasonal. As a result of theseseasonal fluctuations, an army of a million and a half migrant laborers constantlyon the move is necessary to save our industries from disaster. These casual workers go tramping over fixed paths toward goals of tremendousnational and world importance. They have no permanent place in society andreceive only the most trivial and fleeting recognition for their important work. The accompanying map shows the national nature of the migrant problem. AREAS OF MIGRANT LABOR. AGRICULTURAlMININGS QUARRYINGFISHINGLUMBERINGMANUFACTURING 104 Migrant Groups: HOME MISSIONS HARVEST HANDS THE migrant follows definite paths acrossthe country. The cycle in the middleWest begins when the fiist recruits come to thewheat harvest of northern Texas from thesouthern oil and lumber camps and more espe-cially from the southern farms where a lack ofmidsummer staple crops permits an incursioninto these harvest fields before fall work begins. Wheat is a great staple product in the UnitedStates throughout all the territory north ofTexas, Tennessee and North Carolina andin the Pacific Coast states. Over most ofthis area it is raised on rather small fields andas a single feature of a diversified system ofagriculture. The grain belt, on the other hand,where nearly three-fifths of the total supplyis produced, is a great empire stretching from Wheat Acreage for 1918 State
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