And I feel that as long as these people go on reproducing in such quantity, we can't begin to cope with the situation. Since May 213 babies have been born to the Lowell ERA work relief people. Moreover, as long as these people are undernourished and undereducated, I don't see what can be done about them. I cannot write too feelingly of the physical condition of small children. I just don't want to think about what they're growing up to be.
Labor relations seem quite good here.
Which is a definite change from the south and from our point of view, as it concerns the mental state of the worker, this is cause for thanksgiving. The workers do not get the code weekly wage simply because they work two or three days a week. The mill owner here seem to feel very keenly the misery of their workers but they also feel there isn't much they can do. After a certain amount of red writing in ledgers, they are bound to fold up. The shoe industry is in a frightful state.