6th event: Vilimas, whose eleven, and his brother Nikalojus, ten, become newspaper boys and bring home forty cents each day. Spring arrives and Ona becomes more ill. In April, Jurgis is informed by his doctor that he can go back to work. Jurgis shows up at Brown's to be informed that they couldn't keep his job for him. Jurgis searches and seaches for a job, but is unable just like the many other people in the stockyards.