Men off the Road
by Gertrude Springer
Photographs by Lewis Hine
September 1934
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Homeless,
without legal rights anywhere, transients in the federal
camps are just men out of work whom no community permits
to linger and who find welcome only in the jungles of
hoboes
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"Move on" has been the usual
formula of the relief agencies, as of Dickens' London "copper"
in dealing with the homeless. Here a staff member reports what
she saw in some of the new transient camps, what campers and
directors told her, and indicates some of the hopes and difficulties
inherent in the problem of the uprooted which FERA tackled last
February.
