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F. Kelley, Maud Nathan and some others had discovered, prior to my connection and my activities, that industrial conditions were not always perfect and that a great deal of poverty was caused by bad industrial conditions.

I had discovered that in Philadelphia. In the course of my research and investigating jobs there I had discovered a couple of working girls living in a basement and having as their principal food bread and bananas. They had an income of about six dollars a week from factory work. They were very pleased with themselves for having thought of bread and bananas because it was so filling and they weren't so hungry. I was engaged then in looking into housing conditions for single women who came to Philadelphia to work. I was supposed to look out for how they lived, how they made out in lodgings, boarding houses and so forth.

Of course I found terrible conditions in Philadelphia. I found what their wages were and why they lived in the places they did. They couldn't pay any more. Just looking into this I was supposed to describe the sewage draining out across the court, the ventilation - cleanliness, what the rooms were like and so on. I found out a lot of things at first hand that way.

I also found out about immigrants and how they lived in Philadelphia. One of the projects that my organization