Both these families are now forced to live and eat and sleep in and under the "covered wagon" truck at the right, because
the other truck is used as a "pest house" for two members of the family who are ill. "Our friends back home write and ask
us about jobs in the shipyards," they say. "We write back and tell em wages are high, but we wouldn't have come if we'd known
we couldn't find houses to live in."