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girl. Their ages ranged from 14 to 15.v Their wages were from ?3.50 a week to $7. The particular count on which Judge John J. Sullivan fined three of Armour's department managers was that they worked girls- under 16 years of age over eight hours a day. The state child labor law says that slave-driving factory owners who like to hire mere babies must not keep them on the job longer than the eight-hour day which union labor, President Wilson and congress think is long enough for a full grown man. But Armour & Carwas nailed as a violator of this law when testimony was brought into court to show that seven girls and two boys, all of whom belonged in school rooms, not in Armour's factories, labored from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m., with a half hour for lunch at noon. The state factory inspector says his investigators found that these children were paid from $3.50 to $5 a week if they worked by time; they could make as high as ?7 a week if they took piecework! Under the piecework system Armour's paid only for the work done; if the child were ill she got nothing; if she worked hard and long she could make a dol lar a day, Nelson says. In the first place, some women called in and told Nelson that Ar mour's factory was hiring children and working them too long. The ladies who called would not give their names, but they are believed to be society dames who pose as settle ment workers back o the yards. These ladies give advice and ask the county agent for fpod and fuel "for the poor families of stockyards laborers. They spend a few-.hours a day at this, go home, take a' bath and perfume. Then they are ready to take tea or dance with the fam ilies and friends of the owners of the irkinghauses which pay the star vation wages which make the fam ilies back o' the yards poor. These ladies did not give the fac tory inspector their names; the Ar mours, Swifts, Morrises, Meekers, Cudahys and Wilsons wouldn't like that Charity ladies are welcome in stockyards plants as long as they confine themselves to charity work; this is also true in society. ' But the tip, came in to Nelson. He rushed Inspectors Gertrude Stoetzel and Elizabeth Grady to the Armour plant They picked out 25 children plainly under the age of 16,, asked them questions and got their ad dresses. All appeared to be working in violation of the law. Squads of inspectors were sent to look up the school records on the ages of the children; practically- all were found to be too young. But when the inspectdrs went to the ad dresses given as those of -the children they found all but nine fictitious. And when they rushed back to the Ar mour plant the children could not be found. , f So the cases of the nine were used. J. B. Penson, manager of the can ned beef department, was fined on testimony of Margaret Kenny, 15, 5231 S. Ashland av.; Stella Rydecka, 15, 1444 W. 49th pi.; Amber Vinic son, 15, 515 E. 36th pi.; Lottie Lo wendokskir 14, 8733 Houston av., and Josie Baggage, 14, 3202 Wall st J. E. Milton, head of the sausage factory, was convicted on the case of Katie Feinberg, 15, 464" W. 43d st. J. Nichols, boss of the tinning plant, was fined on charges of Mary Brodick, 1,5, 1046 W. 48th st; Max Okan, 15, 4825 S. Paulina st, and Frank Ryska, 15, 4805 S. Throop st "No wonder J. Ogden Arnlour is managing the campaign of Frank Lowden for governor," declared Nel son today. "If Lowden were elected he would probably listen to the sug gestions of Armour and the packers when he appointed" a new state fac tory inspector. "It wpufd be a gooa" thing for Ar-