The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-08

ed the government Mr.. Lorimer assert
ed that he had not been dscourteous.
Mr.. Neill here asked permission to make
a statement. 1t was six weeks ago that
he was there. He saw hundreds of things
that did not go into his report. As to the
rubbish that went into the meat he did
not specify rubbish NALL rubbish, y
piece of rope.
II saw rubbish go into the meat and
said So" AS to tuberculosis he had made
observations and also had interviewed
| physicians who had told him the work
tended to produce that disease.
AS to the tendency of the work in the
packing houses to lower the morales Mr..
Neil said he believed this was the case.
IAN instance" he said, "a young girl
16 or II years of age had to walk across
a long room filled with men to go into
a water closet This does not tend to
morality, especially when some of those
men are of the lowest type. ] Will not
say the workers are immoral
Statement as to Treatment.
When Mr. Lorimer asked the witness IL
he had any complaint to make as to MS
treatment as a witness Mr.. NELL replied
that the treatment of the witness (Mr
WILSON, Yesterday by certain members OF
the comittee and the treatment OF himself
today by these members was striklngly
different especially when the testimony
of Wilson tended to raise direct ques-
ton of yeracity between himself and MT.
Reynolds and Mr.. Wilson.
CHATS what | think, too" asserted
Representative Lamb of Virginia, warmly
Az this point Mr.. Henry of Connecticut
declared that this report came directly
from the President. The President was
responsible for ii, and stood sponsor tor
II. In view of that it was. he believed,
highly discourteous TO question 1t.
Continuing Mr.. NELL said:
some of the questions have been ask
ed me In an attempt to lead me into
making statements which apsolutely
do not mean to make
Mr.. NELL denied that the girls sit down.
They may have permission but there Is
nothing for them to sit on
Asked to go into the details of his in
structions from the President to make
the investigation by Representative
Cromer of Indiana. Mr.. Neill replied that
he was not told to go anywhere eX-
cent Chicago However, he should refuse
to 90 into this subject further, as he
might be compelled to refuse to answer
some questions.
Girls Room Poorly Ventilated.
Reyerting to his inspection in Chicago,
he referred to a room for girl workers
poorly ventilated.
did you have any objection TO the
manner In which the meat was handled
in this room?" asked Mr.. Lorimer.
81 must say after a puse. replied Mr..
Neil. that / was SO interested in OBJ
serving the condition of the workers In
that room that / did not take notice of
the product"
Mr.. Neill commended the government
inspection but would not commit himself
IN the state inspection.
1t was a mistake to state, as did Mr..
Wilson yesterday, he said that the houses
were open to the public.
He then described the hog sticking pro-
cess and said:
zone man sticking hogs was nearly as
clean as I am; another was covered with
blood" He described one room where
girls were packing dried beef in which
the girls looked we'll and clean. The fault
in this room and this applied almost uni
versally. was that the water closet ven
tilated into the room. The closets were
flushed automatically.
Every suggestion made to correct the
absolutely brutal Indifference with which
the employees and especially the young
girls were treated, he said, was met by
the statement, "Oh, they don't mind
that"
The committee then took. an adjourn
ment until 1890 O'Clock tomorrow.