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S8IB Rssfp LAST EDITION ONE CENT THOMPSON WILL END MORALS SQUAD THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL.4, NO. 170 Chicago, Friday, April 16, 1915 398 WHY STOCKYARDS IS BIG DEATH CENTER WHAT OE. ARMOUR SAID TODAY "Have I ever visited the homes of laborers employed by my company? Personally, no. "Should an employer protect his employes when they are not organ ized? Yes. The largest contributors to his success are his emplbyes and they must be contented and satisfied. "Unions interfere with the working of the plant. When they get a 'ittle power they don't know how to use it. I have no, place for them. . ."Can a. workingman raise a family and educate his children properly on $12 a week? A great many have done it. Capital stock-ofArmour & Co. is $20,000,000. Its profits for 1914 were $7,500,000. It has now a surplus of $90,000,0(HV "" " '" Aid. Kennedy Tells Evil Effects of Low Wages on Workers "of Stockyards. Undertakers and hearse drivers da more business, out around the-stockyards than anywhere else in Chicago. Among the homes of workers' in the Armour-Swift-Morris packing houses crepe hangs onthe" front door often er than anywhere else In the; city. It costs a workingman $800 a year in that district to keep himself and wife and three children decently alive. The average pay is '$503 a year. And this is why the little white hearses that haul the babies and chil dren are kept on the rush more back of the yards than eleswhere. Exactly seven times-as many childrenfado m uy Jr