The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . ght away with me was its little pamphlet, gotten outlike an educational leaflet in a street-cleaning campaign suchas those for which Colonel Waring set the fashion with this had to do with the littering up of canals! Moreespecially the committee had broadened its work to includehelp to all families in poverty because of the war. Withtourists no longer coming to the city and with the Adriaticclosed to fishers, it had raised something like 3,000,000 lirefrom voluntary contributions to carry on general civilian re-lief and provide work. The well-to-do
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . ght away with me was its little pamphlet, gotten outlike an educational leaflet in a street-cleaning campaign suchas those for which Colonel Waring set the fashion with this had to do with the littering up of canals! Moreespecially the committee had broadened its work to includehelp to all families in poverty because of the war. Withtourists no longer coming to the city and with the Adriaticclosed to fishers, it had raised something like 3,000,000 lirefrom voluntary contributions to carry on general civilian re-lief and provide work. The well-to-do people of Venice arenot industrialists who make their money, but people who in-herit from old families. These had decreased rents and other-wise helped out during the war poverty, but with this classlargely gone, little was coming in now to tide the committeeover their great emergency. It was maintaining ten popularkitchens. Eight days before it had been giving fifty thou-sand rations; today, so swift had come the need, it had given. LIBRARY OF ST. MARK S twenty; and altogether, through free distributions and econ-omic sales, it was providing for 15,000 families, or 60,000people. So it had come about, in the present emergency, that thecommittee had broadened its work once more and taken upthe responsibility of functioning in connection with the evacu-ation of the city. It was doing so because of this food pres-sure, because it had close contacts with the people and becauseit was concerned in holding together the working unitsthrough which, for two years past, it had enabled so manyfamilies to maintain their economic independence by workingon uniforms, socks and underclothes for the troops. Itsneedle trades had grown to the point where twenty-fivetailors cut the garments for the 600 workers in its rooms,and for the 3,000 women who sewed at home. It had startedwork in wood, for old men and invalided soldiers, such asthe manufacture of wheel-barrows and munition cases, andwork in
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