Show SALT LAKE LIKE MAN IN PACKING HOUSE USE A A. F. F Starr Tells of Observations Observations While Employed in Big Plants S REPORT NOT MOT EXAGGERATED J l Declares Conditions ns BS Oh Given on II by Nelll S- S Si i mul Is Ac Ct y Exist Edt mul r M rc Might he JC Told rF 1 H ill MI know the Nelll Reynolds report of conditions In the Chicago a h packing 5 f houses is true and the he same atle might he be S told of or conditions fn In n the Kansas CIl City houses wild Mid A. A A F F. Stan 28 T Vo Wont t. t Sixth South street yesterday S Mr Starr worked In the Swift and anti t Armour plants at Kansas CIt City n it few rew h r V- V ya aK ago X and has visited the great Chicago plants plants- tr He lIe Is 18 f ngo qualified to discuss q packing-house packing con- con M because ho has been heen t engaged n V In the actual preparation of meats for 1 market markel In tho the packing houses lie He worked over side pork porI in Armours b Kansas CIt City plant doing part of the tho T work worl of or making choice breakfast t bacon acon put of lIf side side- pork lie IIo was In tho the shipping department of Swifts Swift's Kansas Kants CIt City plant afterward Mr Starr Stun says Mys ho lost his Job at r Armours Armour's because lo he W was S too observant ob oh- d t f servant ervant and showed too loo strong an anIf ani i If l Inclination to tu Inquire Into conditions j 1 He lie left his Job at Swifts Swift's with the tue arrival arrival ar ar- rival rl of warm weather which made k p i odor unendurable even In the shipping department I I Just lost m my and had to quit ho hu says Visitor Not NotS Admitted t S t- t Thomas E E. Wilsons Wilson's statement b bo- bo fore ore the house committee that visitors f are welcome to all parts of the packIng pack pack- v Ing houses Is not true rile says pays Mr 11 Starr I know inow better myself Visitors went were wen fr t never no admitted to the department I r t I where hero I worked at Armours Armour's and it 4 r J d S. S was a I kindness to tho the 1 visitors to keep V them out I I. I as an was waR not noti I i allowed to visit sonic some of or the tho departments depart depart- I ments nor 1101 could I get In afterward as a visitor While I was working I there then I used to pretend to lo lose lolo m my way now no anti and then anti and blundered around the other but at nt certain doors s I found a n L watchman who turned me awa away Mr Wilson's Wilsons state Mate t was as a u misrepresentation as al every man mun who has worked In a packS pack pack- S house knows state w t T became IId e WI h p. p C g house Vl while 1 I WalK wua on a Jn northern t Ohl Oho g ry ry fall raU stock h Ih 1 i fo T vr r boU ht many cn carloads of or old dairy C Cy cows y for fIr Dairy 7 r Jin this the h bl of oC tIny tIny- ne hg th these cows COWK to the wOOts null and wheeling wheel shoot In lug ing them The They would be old poor orton diseased and certain not nol to live 11 through uCh another winter Stock buCIS buCI'S buyers buyers buy buy- ers CIS camo came and offered u II cent a pound for them which was tas quickly quick 1 taken fW They were often too tou poor and weak to walk to the railroad and ander were er hauled there In wagons and sleds A few years rH later hn horse e buyers buers began to tot t gather old horses paying a aI cent a n pound These rhese we understood I went to the tho packing houses for tor or can- can ners also atso At At Armours Armour's I worked In the ba basement base base- e- e meat ment where a reserve stock of about a n. hundred carloads carload of tIr dry salt sail pork pOll was piled from front floor to ceiling My S. S job was to work 01 0 over side pork Into breakfast tast bacon The sides would come to me about three Inches thick at itt the lop top and tapering to lo a thin edge ede 5 at nt the Iho bottom bollom 1 had a sort of maul with which I used to hammer the sides until tho they were of or uniform thick thick- ness Then they would woul be cut up fixed up tip to look good have ha the name of tho company branded on ou them an anbe and be sewed Into covers and put lut on the market marlet Hats flats Run Hun 1 Er hIt Rats na were everywhere In the plant thou running over the stock by A rat catcher was employed by hy the year car to kill rats lIe He u used do dogs traps pol on and a gun guli hut but ut the number seemed scented to bo be Ie le less He lie used usell to o nom ever of ot the rats alive to tr try to catch some 5 men who ran ron sell ell them to sporting ra rat pits down town room were engage engnell en- en The Tho men In ln m my miracles as we wc gage gnell In performing sides take the tle c called It Wu We would that thal had been brood sows of old and al three centS centt a pound at bought into English breakfast mal make e them 2 25 to lo cents bacon bacon- that sold for tor 20 O cents It a S kind goes goesl meat of ot an any I 1 zo No good beef bet pork and mutI mut- mut Good l' l Into a can Sn In their fresh h form I ton bring more are aro pickled second grades The Cull stoCk Is u used ed for COl canning can can- and salted rolled bucks old huIJ bulls casing jung ning and from frou brought meats meata are oro etc faulted back to the packinghouses packing packing- S houses the tho cIty to markets be ned and canned Nearly trl l II doctored I Almost cd oil to be used cottonseed I of oC cotton cotton- Carloads etc tour flour III butter used In I up be received to C 1 S ar are rho l 0 arger packinG products canning canning- the ral k Ott a 1 houses carry carryon st stale Ie fruits and andl l vegetables vege- vege bu carm Ing markets commission commis- commis tables from t the thc elt city Most MORt sion lOIi lou and ia past jast the he whole whole- long tong W ur this Jore StUff sture before Is c tho the packing house oma stage tuge flavored Is I vc It but until It II the PU pUbliC Pro Pro- doctored s It tIne not ESS arc Expert but to tell th the goods 00 8 put pure safely keep kecI 0 y U to 10 far the int they can Call go U how using U the mixers In U In 10 i adulterating pickled am and a allU all n U U chemicals Eggs arc brought roUght In n am antI and ore are r b of oC P poultrY carload kind tIle tho n I b U U for scell theIr best days day U they tho after l f. f U ot oC J Scum r the tho m flen n andt and ur of Ii In I the women of th tIlli t are thu tho Most houses of the earth and the tue SCUm cum because Amer- Amer U J theft are The r or of tIlt thu places ot or leans cannot Indecency I U vulgarity I Im- Im the places In o 1 l SALT LAKE MANIN MAN MANIN IN PACKING-HOUSE PACKING Comit Continued from l' l Page C One Omme moral houses get a large portion of I Ithell their thell recruits recruit from women employed In the packing houses Little effort Is made to protect the tIme health or morals of or the employee Only those o to which the time public is a admitted are kept kepi In anything any any- thing like a sanitarY condition No ro fight Is made on the time flies files bugs bug worms etc elc that Infest est th the Places In most of or the depar departments ments the floors are aro covered with si slime lino and andare andare of the places are an never nover dry Some are arc scrubbed each da day but tho they never nevel get a Cl chance to dr dry and are always away's l saturated Saturated Cement floors an and amid walls wails Sight help some bul but I never saw row a place where the they were ere used There Theres em em- sickness am among one Is s always awas much foul air all and ami on account of or the time foi unsanitary condition of or iho tho b building In Inspection I noon Boon to for I Packers PacketS Time Government Inspection system boon boom tot tor the as It Is n now w Is a great time tho Governments Government's Gov- Gov his imis goods packer It gives gi and has stamp or of approval It doubled his business but bul In reality amounts to little In the two men carefully can Call How kills stock of a plant that Inspect the tho and sheep 2000 cattle bus keci them It would woul hogs a da day It If an anima nut nut- to count them And lii In healthy condition con con- the plant ma remain re- re mEaL at fresh nm how ho will long taint main wholesome arid and free ro from erom In that foul atmosphere |