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them are married. Eight are skilled workmen, good butchers and 

 dressers. 



35. Beef Killing. — Large, airy top room. Largest beef 

 slaughter house in the world. Employs one hundred and fifty men 

 and twelve boys; fifteen to- forty-five years of age. One-half are 

 married. Fifteen or twenty own their houses. Wages on day 

 work from 15 cents to 40 cents per hour. Some boys get '^i for 

 a ten hour day. The work is healthy. Most of the men are fairly 

 intelligent. The sanitary condition throughout the plant is good, 

 but there is room for improvement. 



36. Beef Casing. — Force, one hundred men and ten boys — 

 wages range from $1 to $4 by day or piece work per da)'. The 

 boys earn $1 to Si. 25. Work here is healthy. Workmen are of 

 average intelligence, some few are lodge members. Most of them 

 are not house owners. 



37. New Tank Roo:m. — This room has an intelligent negro as 

 foreman — the only one wdio holds that position in the house. Ten 

 men work here, receiving from 15 cents to 22I/2 cents per hour, 

 most all of them married. Three or four of them can neither read 

 nor write. This gang is mixed as regards nationalities. In another 

 part of this room are eight piece-workers (men), averaging $2, 

 eight hour da\'. This work is hard and onh' the very strongest 

 can stand it. Of this gang all are married, save one. The fore- 

 man is a widower with two children — he is boarding with a relative 

 of his who cares for the children, but August 19th, 1894, he began 

 to make payments on a forty acre farm near Oskaloosa, Kansas, 

 which he expects to make into a home for himself and little ones. 

 He has ten years time in which to pay for it. 



38. Oleo Oil. — Fifty meii and boys. Wages range from $1.50 

 to $2.50 per day. W^ork is by day and piece. All are intelligent. 

 The gang is composed of young married men, mostly. The ma- 

 jority are renters, who save nothing. They are as sober as the 

 average run of men. The work is healthy. They are not mem- 

 bers of any labor organizations, but some few are lodge men. Some 

 foreigners. One man has been in this department for eleven years. 



39. Electric Light Plani'. — Six men and one boy, all of whom 

 have been brought up in the house. Four of them are married, 

 and earn from §1.50 to $3 per day. Four work twelve, hours, the 

 balance work eight. Five are on the day force, two on the night. 

 This plant has 8000 incandescent and 240 arc lights, and is one of 

 the most complete plants in the country. None of the men are 

 in labor organizations; some in benefit orders. All are of the 

 higher class of sober, intelligent workingmen. 



