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cupied the stand for the greater part of the session, one entire hour being given to revelations of filth and disease in different can neries. Twenty-eight out of forty young children working in a fac tory at Fairport, N. Y., were suf fering from a virulent skin dis ease, according to the charges of Miss O'Reilly. The camp where the workers lived was on a swamp, with no provision for bathing or drinking. In a Marion, N. Y., plant, the witness asserted, she found six women at work packing tomatoes with hands so infected from skin diseases that they were obliged to wear bandages. "But they sterilized the cans," added the witness sarcastically. "So I suppose they sterilized the filth." "Everything that can walk or crawl can be found in these places," said Miss O'Reilly, re ferring to canneries between Al bany and Rochester. "Rats are so plentiful that women workers fear they will be attacked. The employers boast they never go near the camps where their 'herds' of employes work. "I have seen girls working in pen sheds where the filth on the floor, ceilings and walls gave rise to a stench that was almost un bearable. I have seen old men, women and little children from 5 to 10 years of age, nearly all af flicted with scalp and skin dis eases, working 10 to 15 hours a day for mfre pittances. ''In the living shack of one can-( nery I saw a woman feed a sick baby with a spoonful of con densed milk that had dead flies in it. " 'We feed this to the baby all the time,' the woman told me. "One little boy who had been working in the canneries returned to his home. His mother insisted he go to church. " 'Oh, cut it out there ain't no God,' replied the child. The canneries are generally on the outskirts of villages, Miss O'Reilly said, where no attention was paid to sanitary conditions. In most places village officials were employes of the cannery. In one cannery the girls work ed ten to twelve hours o day, and were paid six to ten cents an hour. "One of the women," said the witness, "told me she had worked sixteen hours a day for over a month, and that lately she 'had been seeing specks.' All of the girls were afflicted with a skin disease." Frank F. Garrett, secretary of the National Canners' associa tion, followed Miss O'Reilly. Garrett bitterly denounced "sen sational newspapers" for. the pub licity given Miss O'Reilly's orig inal work, and insisted the can ners of the country would wel come the federal probe proposed in the Allen resolution. But the committee was im impressed with the statements and photographs of Miss O'Reil ly. This was plainly indicated when they ordered that further-