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Wages Paid in White Flour. Longshoremen and longshorewomen on the docks at Cattaro, Montenegro, to unload American Red Cross relief supplies. They receive a daily wage of five pounds of flour and are satisfied with their conditions. The American flour distributed in Montenegro under supervision of the Red Cross was the first received in the country in five years and saved from starvation. In Montenegro women do as heavy labor work as the men and think nothing of it

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Wages Paid in White Flour. Longshoremen and longshorewomen on the docks at Cattaro, Montenegro, to unload American Red Cross relief supplies. They receive a daily wage of five pounds of flour and are satisfied with their conditions. The American flour distributed in Montenegro under supervision of the Red Cross was the first received in the country in five years and saved from starvation. In Montenegro women do as heavy labor work as the men and think nothing of it

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Summary

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: Supplies, Montenegro.
On caption card: (12/1262)
Used in: Dr. Green T.T. & C. Feb. 1920.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 12

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01/01/1920
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Location

cattaro
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html

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