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Child labor. 

We are shown a mill or a mining town with long rows of shanties and rickety frame houses. We see a group of children carrying lunch boxes and paper bags - children of school age who are already working in the mills. 

Dispossessed Farmer

5 - "WHERE IS YOUR PERMANENT HOME?" We are shown the fields and gardens of a dirt farm, chicken coops, stock pen, farm implements. There follows a succession of incidents: the crash of 1929, drought and foreclosure, ending in one of the famous "penny sales" of the midwest. The men now file past the personnel man more and more rapidly. To each he hands a slip, saying: "Report for work on Monday;" "Report for work on Monday;" - - giving the impression of many men being hired. 

The next scene is on the project. Trains and autos disgorge scores of workman. We here introduce a narrator, who begins: "Five thousand men have been put to work on