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Show POVERTY IN TijiTH Distressing Picture of Life Among- Cotton Mill Workers Washington, Feb. 24 A dismal picture pic-ture of life among Southern cotton mill workers is painted In a report isued by the federal bureau of labor With scantv food and poor clothing, according to the roport, these peoplo exist In crowded, company-owned houses, looked down upon and ignored ig-nored by other residents. It is de- i clared that while tho whole family ! men, women and children work for ' a living, the table of the average householder offers In quality and quantity about what the gpvernraent gives Inmates of tho federal prison , at Atlanta. j Tiso bureau selected as an example twenty-one typical cotton mill fam- . IHqs, ten living In or near Atlanta, Gn., six just outside of Greensboro. I N. C, and five at Burlington, N. C More than a hundred families were studied, however, and of the minimum mini-mum standard of living found the report re-port says, "It is so low that one would expect few families to llvo on 1l" Tho so-called normal family, father, fath-er, with women and children depending depend-ing upon him for .support, was not found among the twenty-ono families described as typical. Even the poorest poor-est of these was supported by the earnings of several, and in many coses boarders were taken. Tho average av-erage mimber of wage earners per family was 3.6 In a family whero five were employed thp'earnlncs totaled to-taled ?800 and $900. Pork, syrup, corn bread and coffee continues tho diet of tho average family, the bureau says. Only meager sums are spent for clothing, and the mothers dress largely In cast-off garments gar-ments of their daughters. The reports concludes that most of tho families j usually end tho year slightly In debt, j |