True but so were the eastern Europeans that came looking for work and ended up in the coal mines and steel mills. The Poles, Hungarians, Chechs, Lituanians that were all poor and couldn't speak English? They were taken full advantage of by the Carnegies, Fricks, Rockefellers, etc. The coal that fueled steel plants that built the cities, factories and armaments were made by the blood, sweat and tears of people that were forced to work 6 days a week in unsafe environments at slave wages. The industrialists wanted them dumb, enable to understand the language but strong enough to work and in dire need to feed their families.