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and upward. One seventeen year old bo}' who has worked in the 

 packing house for three years can neither read nor write. Only 

 three or four of the men are forty years old. Some are buying 

 homes on the installment plan. Average wages are made here on 

 both piece and day work. Workmen are of the common type — 

 work is dirty but healthy. The foreman has been fifteen years a 

 foreman. ' 



7. Tank Room. — Three men at $1.75. Four men in press 

 room — married — steady workers — have been here for years. Twenty- 

 six men and ten girls in pigs' feet and tripe department — steady 

 and industrious. Eight of these men are single. Girls work by 

 the piece. No labor organizations have members in this depart- 

 ment. An old negro from Mississippi in A. P. H. since 1879, 

 has five children, owns his own home, is fifty-six years old, has 

 saved money, doesn't attend church because he spends his money 

 in fitting his children to go. Though he can scarcely read or write, 

 he is giving his children a good education. Another man has been 

 in the tank room for twenty-one years. He has six children and 

 owns his home; sixty-four years of age. He says that wages are 

 better now than when he first came. 



S. HoG-KiLLiN(;. — Foreman has worked fourteen years here. 

 From one hundred ten to seventy-three killing hands. Eight boys 

 from ten to fourteen years of age, fifteen cleaners: men are twenty- 

 one to fifty years of age. They are steady industrious men. The work 

 is fairly healthy. They all work by the day except the head gang. 

 A mixed crowd — negroes, foreigners. Head men receive :^2 a piece 

 per da}'. 



g. Cakpemkring and Brick Masonkv. — Fift\- men — a few 

 union men — all have families and are stead\- Avorkmen — ages range 

 from twenty-two to thirty. These men do all the repairing and 

 building for the plant. 



10. Hog-cutting. — Fifty-four bo}-s, fort\-si\ men — all day 

 workers. Nothing unusual in this department. 



11. Supply Department. — Eighty men and boys — some boA's 

 under eighteen — sober and industrious men. Foreman says that 

 he must have good men in his department. They are all da)' 

 workers above the ordinary intelligence. Some few blacks. Freezer 

 boys Avork at 50 cents per day. The freezers are kept at a tempe- 

 rature of 14 degrees above zero. It is not an especially healthy 

 job for a man to work in the freezers. 



12. Sausage Tri:m.minc;. — Four men, two boys, forty-one girls. 

 Foreign and American. Boys, thirteen to twenty years of age. 

 Girls are piece workers — girls average five hours per da\" during 



