Lives of the workers
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Men who were imported to work in Panama with heavy duties, were paid less than a dollar a day. With many difficulties to be faced, from harsh jungle rains to risking their lives in the construction and diseases. |
" The food is awful and cooked in such a way that no civilized white man can stand it for more than a week or two...... I’m convinced there isn’t a place in the world that can beat the Isthmus for rain. Every day and every night it pours down. I haven’t had on a pair of dry shoes in weeks."
- Jan Van Hardeveld (wrote in Rose Van Hardeveld's journal, PBS).