Viewing page 76 of 111

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

-4-

[[left side margin]]
Can we give the feeling at this point that not only have these [[?]] conditions hampered his life and brought him in this line of job seekers but that it is as well the [[?]] out of which the inhabitants of a [[?]] will come?

Are by the cities

SLUME
[[left side margin end]]

[[strikethrough]] have hampered his life, [[strikethrough]] and have brought him to his place in the line of men applying for relief work. As each applicant finishes, the personnel man says, "Report for work on Monday".

THE QUESTIONS:

The first man takes the employment sheet, scans the page, and stops at the question:

1 - WHERE WERE YOU BORN? The applicant looks off into space; We see the pushcart section of New York's east side. People are milling back and forth, washings swing out over an alley; tier after tier of tenement flats are surveyed by the camera.

We see people sleeping on mattresses on the sidewalk on hot nights. We see pool rooms and loafing places. A crowd catches our eye, running, Sirens blow. We follow the crowd to see a blazing old-law tenement. Excitement, confusion and the screaming of ambulance sirens.