These conditions rendered it impossible for the families of the tenement-house workers to live so that the children might grow up fitted for the exacting duties of American citizenship.

I visited the tenement-houses once with my colleagues of the committee, once with some of the labor union representatives, and once or twice by myself.

In a few of the tenement-houses there were suites of rooms ample in number where the work on the tobacco was done in rooms not occupied for cooking or sleeping or living.

In the overwhelming majority of cases, however, there were one, two, or three room apartments, and the work of manufacturing the tobacco by men, women, and children went on day and night in the eating, living, and sleeping rooms--sometimes in one room.
I have always remembered one room in which two families were living.

On my inquiry as to who the third adult male was I was told that he was a boarder with one of the families.