Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . tment. They are all southern Italians,mostly Calabrians, and a few Sicilians. Fairmont, West Virginia, is the center of thirteen littlehamlets having a population of 15,000 Italians. Here themost intelligent Italians have entered the Art Glass Works,and the smaller trades and business concerns, or have be-come merchants. A goodly number own their own poorer element are less intelligent than the Calabriansof Boomer, and earn from $ to $ a day in the men with families usually lead a quiet, decent
Sons of Italy; a social and religious study of the Italians in America . tment. They are all southern Italians,mostly Calabrians, and a few Sicilians. Fairmont, West Virginia, is the center of thirteen littlehamlets having a population of 15,000 Italians. Here themost intelligent Italians have entered the Art Glass Works,and the smaller trades and business concerns, or have be-come merchants. A goodly number own their own poorer element are less intelligent than the Calabriansof Boomer, and earn from $ to $ a day in the men with families usually lead a quiet, decent life, butamong the single men in the boarding-houses, the moraltone is very low. They spend much of their leisure ingambling and drinking. Their superintendent reports thatwhen drunk they are very hard to control, that one hun-dred more mules are killed in a wet than in a dryyear; and there are also one hundred per cent, more crimesper thousand people when the town goes for license. Fewof the men know any English and very few have become 38 SONS OF ITALY SILL £ ^^ h. ^4^^ j ITALIAN COLONIES IN AMERICA 29 citizens or take any interest in politics. They are greatlyinfluenced by Industrial Workers of the World company provides a physician and collects a dollar amonth for his salary and fifty cents a month for medicinefrom each man. In the mining fields west of the Mississippi, the Italianminers are from northern Italy and Montenegro. SouthMcAlester, Oklahoma, contains several hundred Pied-montese who work in the coal mines. Some of the earlierarrivals invested in land and have become very Fassoni, who owns a macaroni factory, has $60,000invested in land there. Italians are also found in the mining towns of Texas andColorado, the workmen being mainly north Italians, Pied-montese, Venetians, and Modenese. They live in smallwooden houses owned by the company, and must purchasesupplies to the amount of $ a week per man from thecompany store. Many tim
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