... dozen of them will hire a single room in the vilest kind of a tenement, and huddle there together. They live o n garbage. Banana skins picked out of the gutter. cabbage stalks, the refuse of the vegetable market and the abattoirs—on these which cost nothing; ...

... They, i), those days, took the place in the great lahoy, gangs, carrying out contract labour on the ryj). ways, and wherever pick and shovel were i, requisition that had previously been occupied by the Irish. Their frugality enabled them to work for very ...