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...problems of immigration has at last received official attention and seems likely of solution. The Stobbs bill now before the House of Representatives aims to avoid in future some of the cases of individual hardship that have been incurred from time to time under the hard and fast rulings necessary to control the rush of foreigners to this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations...
...severe was the cold that several members of the party were forced to turn back because of serious frost bites. Those climbers who ultimately reached the top suffered great hardship...
...each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship, tells me I must die Like a sick eagle looking...
...after this long paired of hardship only one mil-owner and he a minor on has acceded to the reasonable requests of the textile workers. The strike has come to be a symbol of the suffering of the industrial workers not in Passaic alone but in a thousand and one cities throughout the country...
...girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except drudgery and hardship. They are undernourished and underschooled, and must contribute to the family income as soon as they attain working age. Their years of adolescence are spent tending machines...