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$1.50, although some get as high as $2. No skilled labor in this 

 department. 



22. Store Ro(m. — Two clerks and a foreman, of necessity 

 intelligent men. Here all requisitions for supplies are made. The 

 clerks are young men. 



23. Packing and Lard. — Sixty men. married, of nii.xed races. 

 Average wage for eight hours, $1.60. Fairly intelligent. 



24. Car Shops. — For repairs only. Forty men, all skilled 

 laborers except two or three. Scarcely any of them are unions. 

 Half the force is on piece work at an average wage of $2 per day. 

 Nearly all are married. About one-third own their houses. Many 

 lodge and benefit society members. 



25. Machine Shops. — Machinists, blacksmiths, steam-fitters, 

 boiler-makers — seventy-one all told. Twenty to thirty-five years 

 of age. Good workmen. There are seventy-three day and night 

 engineers and firemen in the four plants of the compan)-, in engine 

 and boiler rooms. No finished products come from these shops — 

 just repairs made. 



26. Carpenter Shops. — Six men. A cabinet-maker, wagon- 

 maker, pattern-maker, saw-filer. Average wage, $2 per day. All 

 learned their trade abroad, and are non-union men. All are mar- 

 ried. One owns his house. Good steady men. working eight 

 hours per da^'. 



27. Paint Shop. — Eight n:en. four of whom are painters: the 

 others attend to the scales, elevator ropes and belts. All are 

 married. Wages range from $2 up. Two own their homes. These 

 men are steady, industrious men. 



2<S. Glue. — Sixteen men, twenty -six to twenty-eight years old, 

 work by the hour at 15 cents to 221^^2 cents per hour, from an eight 

 to a ten hour day. Some few lodge members. The work is clean 

 and healthy. One man has been in the glue room for eighteen 

 Nears, and owns two houses on leased land in the bottom. Flas a 

 thirteen year old lioy whom he is sending to night school. 



29. Fire Departmeni. — Plant can be emptied in five minutes. 

 There is no general alarm. The outfit consists of two hose reels, 

 four chemical wheelers, two chemical stationary, Armour water 

 towers (at a nearby station ). ninety-five watchman's boxes, auto- 

 matic extinguishers in box factor}^ lard house, and fertilizer build- 

 ings. Private water tank in three buildings. Seventeen night watch- 

 men, five day watchmen, six hundred feet of hose. All alarms center 

 in General Superintendent's office. Marshal and his assistants are 

 on salary, and the eight firemen get 25 cents per night. These 

 firemen work in the packing house during the day. 



