Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — Emigration Benefits Sicily. [ARTICLE]

Emigration Benefits Sicily.

Emigration has benefited the worktug classes in Sicily. Labor is scarce now, and in some places where only 30 cents a day was formerly the wage rate 75 cents 111 uow frald. The emigrants leaving Palermo for the United States last year numbered 48,853.