A pea-picker is a derogatory reference to poor, migrant workers during the Great Depression.
So the word " depressed " or " wretched " describes the pea picker camp best.
Explanation:
The term "pea picker" is used to distinguish a group as a lower social class from some other similar groups. These people were unskilled, poorly educated workers, employable only in menial jobs, such as harvesting crops and, as such, received poor wages for working long hours under dreadful conditions.
himself a coward for going to war and not standing up for his beliefs by going to Canada. He writes that he was too ashamed of what people might say about him if he went to Canada.
