The Immigrant And Coal Mining Communities of Illinois
The Immigrant And Coal Mining Communities of Illinois
Grace Abbott
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The judge, therefore, granted their petitions if they were in other respects qualified. In a region such as this, where practically all the miners were members of the union, an episode of this sort might have prevented many from becoming citizens and have introduced new complications in a controversy already difficult. Some of the men, particularly those who lived in a company- owned camp, felt that there is little use of their being citizens or voters. Thus one man who had lived for fourteen y...ears in the same camp said quite hopelessly, "I never leave the camp, so why should I have papers (citizenship) ?" In view of what has already been said about the almost total lack of educational opportunities for adults in the twenty-six min- ing towns visited, it seems unnecessary to point out that the difficulty of acquiring English and of preparing for the examination in civics has deterred many from trying to become citizens. One man in Franklin County put it "you must know good English now, " to become naturalized.
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