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The Great Depression
Men Wandering the Countryside
During the Great Depression, millions of men
were in need of work. Approximately
two million men traveled around the country in
search of jobs or a better life. To move from
place to place, many of these men would jump
into the boxcars of moving trains, a practice
that often led to death or serious injury.
In response to
the growing
number of
peoplending
the rails without
a ticket the
ralways hired
"butts or
guards. The
guards were in
charge of
arresting those
who tried to
board the tran
without a ticket
how the railway companies helped those in need
how railways dealt with people riding the trains without
paying
how railway profits suffered during the Great Depression
how much the railway companies charged customers