Workers from the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) were for a while near the bottom of the immigrant worker totem pole. The protagonist of Upton Sincl

Workers from the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia) were for a while near the bottom of the immigrant worker totem pole. The protagonist of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1905), meatpacker Jurgis Rudkus, was Lithuanian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle