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1. Canninc; Room. — Full force is 700 men and girls, all of 

 whom are over 17 years old — 540 of this force work in the Label 

 Room; 96 girls earn from $1.50 to $1.60 per day on piece work 

 here, working 8 hours daily and Innching in the room where they 

 work (a light, airy, clean and sweet-smelling room). Tinners 

 (yonng men 18 to 20 years old) earn from $2.50 to S3 per day. 

 Girls, by day work, make from $4.50 to $6 per week: by piece 

 work, up to $12 per week. Men, by da}' work, make from $6 to 

 $12 per week. The majority of the girls live at home; a few are 

 widows earning their own living. The Label Room is under the 

 supervision of a forewoman who is much valued by the Superin- 

 tendent because of her close attention to business. Employees in 

 this department save very little; some of the girls wait on table 

 (at dinner time) in the compan}'"s restaurant, for which they receive 

 overpa}' and their dinners. This restaurant is run as a matter of 

 accommodation and is for the use of the office employees and the 

 foremen onh'. It is the general impression, among certain people, 

 that the ordinar}' working girl is of loose or immoral character, but 

 I was repeatedly assured by the various persons with whom I 

 talked that the girls and women employed in the plant (ire not so- 



2. Ti\ Shop or Cannkks' Shop. — Running 80 hands at present 

 writing, of whom five or six are women and girls. Men and boys 

 range from twelve 3'ears up. All piece work in this shoj) — no 

 makers of finished products, hence none of the men belong to 

 trades' unions — average class as regards intelligence and morality — 

 wages range from Si. 50 to S2.75 per day, by piece work. 



3. Lri'HoGRAPH\ . — Full force, eight men, fourteen women, all 

 unmarried — men work by the day at from $1.50 to $5 per day; 

 women by piece at from S -75 to S2.50 per day. The latter figure 

 is seldom reached, $1.25 being the average limit. The foreman 

 said that he found a good education a good thing in any line of 

 work. The workmen in this room have all received their training 

 in the plant and are exceptionally bright; one of them will soon 

 remove to a western state where he has secured a position at $25 

 per week. The foreman is a member of the Young Men's Christian 

 Association and is one of their best gymnasts. 



4. Boning Room. — Full force, two hundred men, most of whom 

 have families. Swedes predominate here. Six are time men, 

 others are piece w'orkers. This gang is continually changing. 



5. Poultry Room. — Full force, 150 men and 35 girls. This 

 room corresponds in its essential features to No. 4. 



6. Sausage Room. — 100 men and boys, 25 women; of these 

 twenty-five, four are widows. There are thirty boys aged thirteen 



