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Gipsy Labor
Gropper, William | September 25, 1937 issue

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In the warm months one-half of the U.S. population comprises of gipsies. Traveling from coast to coast you will find the highways crowded with cars of every description packed with baggage, going in every direction. Many have been evicted by the California Board of Health in 1937. Some were following the harvest, trying to get work. In Woodland, California, the author saw children from the age of six to twelve working in the sugar-beet fields. An Oklahoma farmer told the author that he had been offered work by a California employment agency, but by the time he got there the work was finished.

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ROMANIES; TOURISTS; EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); TRAVEL; CHILD labor; UNITED States
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