Shantytown, U. S. A.

Discusses the condition of jobless people living in shantytowns or "hoovervilles" in the United States. Statement that the hoovervilles are in a separate nation, with separate codes, though the men who live in them are still subject to a sort of imperialist intervention; Reference to the presence of blocks and blocks of sacks along the river in New York; Description of the plight of people with no jobs and no house to live in; Description of the deportation raids made in a Brooklyn, New York, shacktown.