Men eating afternoon meal at the Salvation Army. Corpus Christi, Texas. The Salvation Army says that they have a heavy case load because of stranded unskilled laborers in the city. There is now a surplus supply of unskilled labor and a shortage of skilled labor in the city

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01/01/1940

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