The Grafter is frequently a man who is able to exploit the private and public charity organizations, or the fraternal organizations.
The Bad Actor is a man who has become a nuisance to his people and they pay him money provided he does not show himself in his home town.
The Jungle Buzzard is a tramp who lives in the jungles from what he can beg. He will wash the pots and kettles for the privilege of eating what is left in them.
From the point of view of abnormal sex relations there are several types of tramps:
A Punk is a boy who travels about the country with a man known as a jocker.
A jocker is a man who exploits boys; that is, he either exploits their sex or he has them steal or beg for him or both. The term “wolf” is often used synonymously with jocker.
Fairies or Fags are men or boys who exploit sex for profit.
From the economic standpoint, migratory workers are employables and unemployables. Between the extremes there are individuals of every shade of employability. The ability of a man to support himself is presumed to be related to his ability and to his opportunity to work. The tramp problem has been interpreted first of all as an unemployment problem, but this does not take account of the unemployables.
First of all, there are the physically handicapped, the crippled, the blind, the deaf, and the aged, and many who are too fat or too puny or too sickly to do heavy manual work. Perhaps a half of the whole group in a city like Chicago are physically handicapped to a greater or less extent.
Second, the psychopathic types include many irresponsible and undependable persons found in the population of Hobohemia. These either cannot hold a job, or do not care to; they have other ideals. They could, no doubt, do some sort of work but most of them would have to be supervised.