The union organizer, already mentioned, is connected with the building trades. They have hired unemployed to do it. He said they had more accidents on that job than they normally had on a big construction job, with men working on scaffolding and really having cause for accidents. I still believe that if men were offered a living wage and a good stiff piece of work which they could accept as work, they'd come across all right. The middle-class white collar worker is taking it in the neck, horribly.
Housing is unspeakable.
I have seen houses where the plaster had fallen through the lathe, and the basement floated in water. Household equipment nil. Apparently what goes last is the unused overstuffed furniture in the front room. They don't dare go out, for shame. I am now talking primarily about the white collar class.