Show BEEF TRUST METHODS THOUSANDS OF HUMAN GROUND VOW DOWN BY BV PITILESS CORPORA corporations inhuman treatment Trent ment of men and women who are forced force d to work in great establishments ln in lowest depths of misery BY UPTON no york wad it Is 11 literally tho the truth that the packers treat their men like dogs thero there Is no place in all Packing town where tho the slightest consideration Is 13 shown for a human being they are compelled to bo be on hand at it certain hour in tho the morning even though there Is no killing to bo be done they are laid off without the slightest ceremony anil and they havo have no idea when the work will start up tip again they are cheated out of their pay most shamelessly it if enough men itlen happen to be on liand hand the bosses will start them hem up tip before tho the whistles blow and cheat them that way if they are working overtime overt and do not make a full hour evl even n though they full liy iv only five inI minutes they get nothing for it it if any error Is made in tile the computation of their work they have no redress there la Is always one answer to every complaint if you do not like it you can go elsewhere ONI ONE VAST TRUST tile the conditions in have reached present state of degradation by the natural process of competition or rather thero there Is competition of labor while there is no coni competition peti of capital there la Is but one vast rast employing trust anti anil a doiy body or of absolutely unorganized and helpless types of human beings are coming there there has been a regular procession of the races through 1 aching town tile the industry was founded by skilled cattle butchers from germany then they began the importing of irishmen in en after tho the strike of 1891 they set to work deliberately to crowd tile tho labor market so as to prevent further troubles first they brought poles then bohemians Bohem ians then hen lithuanians Lithuania ns rind and now finally slovaks yaks these are nearly all undersized wretched people who can c an 1 not speak english and who impress one ns as having no more intelligence than a dumb animal the bosses beat them and kick hick them anti and spit in their faces I 1 saw sights of this sort which fairly made my blood boll I 1 saw baw a poor wretched lithuanian pushing a truck in one of swift co s cellars it was loaded with hams and the poor fellow was scar scarcely vely able to stir it on the level floor lie ho camo came to a slight incline and could not PL it up tip and tho the boss fell upon him nd pounded him out of the place I 1 presume that ho be was vas firing liliu blin another and stronger ninn man took his place COMPELLED TO VISIT SALOONS one of the things pointed out in the presidents report Is that tho the men are provided with no places to eat it Is 1 means the winter time I 1 saw them crouching I 1 lu n the stairways of the packing houses and outside under the she sheils sheds ils to get away botn tho the falling snow in conversation with one of the packers I 1 spoke of the horribly low wages that were paid to tho the men and he answered that there was no use in paying any more ore becaj because zo balance went to tile the saloon keeper my aly reply was wag that for one thing I 1 hall had observed veil that the com coin panics pay their inen in checks anti ancl that saloons are the most convenient places in which these can call bo be cashed and that also as a consequence of tile lack of 0 dining rooms tile the men aro are liter ally compelled to resort to the saloons in winter the packer then dropped the subject prior to tile last in chicago the union officers made a computation based upon ten thousand tinie chocks and ana found that the aver average age weekly wage in was between P 5 and 6 since the strike conditions c one have of course grown worse A friend ot of mine who has recently been making investigations for me stated slated that he stood in a saloon on it sat saturday arlay night a and na gathered up tip the pay I 1 envelopes of the men as they came lit in and got checks cashed lie ile collected ovir over n score and tho the average was less than 4 there were some as low as I 1 ITO I TO this represented presented ro a weeks wages for an able bodied man in at n dull season joyt W L el t C WO W V WA P 4 4 t 14 it C USED pon FOR CRATE FATTENING POULTRY rOUL AT WORK 4 ff a OGDEN OHM all anmann arron SINCLAIR TWO PROMINENT TN IN tim till BEEP TRIST ani ht I 1 ii |