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PPPWW!P 9 , I I i i I t of ninety families of workers at Homestead, kept for her by the housewives.- "My experiences," she said, "have shown that it is impossible to maintain a normal standard of living on less than $15 a week. At present 5 per cent of the employes of the Homestead plant are day laborers who are paid about $10.50." Curiously, the committee seem ed to take much more' interest in Miss Byington's tale of human suffering than it had in Charles Schwab's dolorous story of how the Steel Trust would be ruined if the tariff were reduced, or Judge Gary's brilliant exposition of the trust's "profit-sharing plan for employes, or Andy Carne gie'sbleak humor. As she talked they remembered what Louis D.. Brandeis, "the people's attorney?' had told them, as he laid dowa his documents and said: ' "The Steel- Corporation has made slaves of its workers. You must.not let it go on. You dare npt let it go on. If you do, it means the end of democracy, the end of America." Perhaps also, they understood why D. H. Reed, attorney for the trust, always has beeno anx ious to prevent any testimony as to labor conditions among steel trust employes coming "before the committee. At any rate, the committee looked with black disfavor upon Attorney Reed when that gentle man interrupted Miss Bvington, in the reading of tables of expen-1 ditures to ask about what she had listed as "extras." "Do the 'extras' come largely in bottles?" he sneered. "You mean beer, I suppose," said Stanley. "Yes," said Miss Byington. "And even the beer comes mighty high. The average fam ily spends about 55 cents a week on beer." Reed became very excited about Miss Byington's account of conditions at Homestead. He wanted Stanley to look up condi tions in plants of concerns other than the Steel trust. "Compared to our competitors, conditions are better than ' the average," he said. o o SAYS POOR CAR SERVICE IS FORCED ON PEOPLE City Traction Expert M. C. Buckley threw aTjomb into the council sub-committee, hearing complaints against the street car service, this afternoon by declar ing that poor street car service in all parts of the city is being delib erately forced on the people by surface and elevated interests in order to bring abou.t the acquies ence of the city council in plans for the merging ofall local trans portation lines. The charge of Mr. Buckley split the aldermen into two camps. Most of the members ar gued there was foundationfor the charge, but others charged the fault lay with the employes of the roads vamesagianmmM ij... Je.V-33-r,