Migrants waiting for work in front of US Employment Service Office
Migrants from New York City and West Virginia washing up after work
West Virginia workers negotiating with two local tomato farmers
Relief client from New York City talks with migrant laborers from West Virginia
A year after these photos were taken, the FSA had transported 255 laborers from Jamaica to work in the fields. They were charged $7/week for food consisting primarily of bread and protested that they were near to starvation, harvesting crops. The Elba site persisted into the 1970s as "Frank Weathers Labor Camp" and sometimes made it into police blotter reports for incidents of violence among its impoverished inhabitants.
]]>Migrants waiting for work in front of US Employment Service Office
Migrants from New York City and West Virginia washing up after work
West Virginia workers negotiating with two local tomato farmers
Relief client from New York City talks with migrant laborers from West Virginia
A year after these photos were taken, the FSA had transported 255 laborers from Jamaica to work in the fields. They were charged $7/week for food consisting primarily of bread and protested that they were near to starvation, harvesting crops. The Elba site persisted into the 1970s as "Frank Weathers Labor Camp" and sometimes made it into police blotter reports for incidents of violence among its impoverished inhabitants.