Capitolo 89
in the hotels. Polish girls are especially used in the kitchens of hotel and
laundries, and for washing rubbing of salt and atria where
a knowledge of the language English is not necessary, but where them
strength of farmer is in demand. The job is very heavy and tiring and
until the law of Illinois it limited the job of women to ten hours for day, it
it often lasted late in the night. Also the girls now bring him
so tired that at the end of the day, they crowds in the dormitories and
fallen on their naked beds. When food and refuge you/he/she is given them,
their salaries are from $14.00 to $18.00 for month the most greater part of what it is usually
expeditious again to the old country that the remaining members of the family
you/he/she can be brought to America. Such positions are surrounded by temptations
of every kind. Also the women of house of hotel to that you/they are honestly trying
protects the girls, it admits that it is impossible to adequately do him/it. One
of these housewives recently said "that he/she picks up a girl that knows the
world to work in some hotel", and it repented that the sophisticated one
English-speaking girl that would protect him, was incapable to bear
the hard job. You added that as soon as a girl learned English her
promotes her/it from the laundry to the rooms and from there to the
maid's position, but that the second position was more anymore the
dangerous of everybody, as the girls had shown to insults from continually
the guests. In the least respectable hotels these of they recent-arrived immigrant
girls, inevitably seeing very the life of the gangsterism and
the apparent ease with which money can be earned in illegitimate ways, discovery
their first impression of the moral standards of the life in America more
bewildering. A young Polish girl had been working for two years in a
hotel than in the down-city, and is withstood to constantly also all you anticipate him improper
sometimes from her help his/her own powerful fist. You finally produced
the suggestions of the life around her when she received a telegram from