Both these families are now forced to live and eat and sleep in and under the "covered wagon" truck at the right, because the other truck is used as a "pest house" for two members of the family who are ill. "Our friends back home write and ask us about jobs in the shipyards," they say. "We write back and tell em wages are high, but we wouldn't have come if we'd known we couldn't find houses to live in."
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