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Vanzetti arrives in NYC in 1908, faces terrible working conditions
In 1908, Bartolomeo Vanzetti traveled from Italy to New York City and quickly learned about working conditions for laborers in America.
He found work in a restaurant he describes this way: "... The pantry was horrible.There was not a single window in it. The vapor of the boiling water where the plates, pans and silver were washed formed great drops of water on the ceiling, took up all the gust and grime there, then fell slowly one by one on my head, as I worked below. During working hours the heat was terrific. The table leavings amassed in barrels near the pantry gave out nauseating exhalations..."
"That was a sad year," Vanzetti writes in his memoir "The Story of a Proletarian Life."... "What toiler does not remember it. The poor slept outdoors and rummaged the garbage barrels to find a cabbage leaf or a rotten potato."
See "Suosso's Lane," my novel on the internationally scandalous Sacco and Vanzetti case... available www.web-e-books.com/index.php#load?ty...
He found work in a restaurant he describes this way: "... The pantry was horrible.There was not a single window in it. The vapor of the boiling water where the plates, pans and silver were washed formed great drops of water on the ceiling, took up all the gust and grime there, then fell slowly one by one on my head, as I worked below. During working hours the heat was terrific. The table leavings amassed in barrels near the pantry gave out nauseating exhalations..."
"That was a sad year," Vanzetti writes in his memoir "The Story of a Proletarian Life."... "What toiler does not remember it. The poor slept outdoors and rummaged the garbage barrels to find a cabbage leaf or a rotten potato."
See "Suosso's Lane," my novel on the internationally scandalous Sacco and Vanzetti case... available www.web-e-books.com/index.php#load?ty...
