Item Detail
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30541
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English
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Magerou : The Greek Midwife
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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January 1970
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38
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1
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Utah State Historical Society
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50-60
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In response to angry editorials in Greece, a Greek woman journalist visited Utah mining towns in 1914. It would take, she wrote, the pen of Edgar Allan Poe to describe the horrors of the Greek immigrant worker's life. R. C. Gemmel, general manager of Utah Copper Company, replied to her complaints and demands that proper housing and hospitals be
built for the Greeks and other immigrants: 'They choose their own habitations. And if we built them new quarters, they would prefer to stay where they are.'The journalist found that the workers were afraid of the company doctors. Although a dollar a month was deducted from their wages for medical care, they felt they were coldly treated, like animals, not human beings. Amputations were hastily performed. This was the men's great fear. Three to five hundred dollars were paid for the loss of an arm or a leg. Uneducated as the laborers were, an amputation was the end of self reliance and the beginning of descent into penury. [Author]
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