Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-17
sTATEMENT is TRUE.

gases or decomposition.
STATEMENT is TRUE.
IL know from my own observation
of the stuffs packed In this factory
that this statement Is absolutely cor
rect. for the food preserved and pack
cd was 40 effectually doctored that no
further decomposition took place once
the tins were Theoretically sealed.
Large quantities of these preserved
materials were sent abroad to firms
Of well known reputation.
THE girls and women with whom
worked were dase-hardened They
were among the lowest and most mis-
cradle specimens Of humanity that
have come across. | did not notice
any definite diseases among the work.
ers, but their bodily persons were so
extremely unsavory and dlsagreeable
that, added to the hldeous smells Of
the animal matter that was being pre-
served, IL rendered life almost intol-
cradle"
In another London meat-paching
factory In when Miss Malvery work
cd the conditions II possible, We're
still worse. II saw tongues and pork
that came in for pressing and TO make
Drawn" she told me, actually In
such decayed condition that they
were falling 20 pieces, and the smell
was shocking. In this factory we
were paid shamefully low wages. and
we constantly worked longer hours
than the law allows The staff was re-
inforced In the heavy season by re-
lays OF tramps from the cutters and
riverside. Their usual bodily conid-
ton was offensive and beyond descrip-
ton"
Miss Malvery found conditions al
mostas disgusting In the bread-ba
ing and confectionery trade. ION one
occasion" she said, II took q lodging
In a little street where most Of the
houses were owned by Pole. who
rack-rented them. In another room
in the same house there lived a baker
with his wife and family The man
had himself at one time owned a
small bakers shop. but through drink
and other misfortune he had contrived
to bring himself down to the very
dregs Of the labor market. To supple
mcnt this mans earnings his wife
worked for a sweater--shc made but
ton-holes
This baker undertook to introduce
me TO some OF the mysteries Of the
baking trade, and 1t was through his
lnstrumehhlity that learned the con.
dition OF some Of the baking houses I'm
London. IL Is true that these were
not OF the best class; but it Is equally
true that people who use cheap timed
meat are not OF the richest class either.
and surely the customers OF the one
class are OF no less value than tho
customers Of the other
UNDERGROUND VAULT.
I'm one big house, which was a sort
OF underground vault. damp and M
smelling. there We're 30 men EMPLOYED.
an Of the most degraded class and ex-
cecdingly fllthy. The dough was being
kneaded by the feet. and the air was
so sitting and hot that the perspira-
ton poured down IN streams from the
men into the dough There were othe.
denominations In this place. which Il Is
hardly possible to describe without
trespassing too closely on the Indecent
They Individually used foreign eggs
They were broken up Unfortunately
In huge troGghs. beaten up and used.
whatever their condition The stencil
from them was absolutely loathsome.'
Miss Malvery obtained employment
IN a bakers shop in the fashionable
West End, and found things almost as
bad there.
Eggs were used" she said, (which
Were sent from Holland in great casks
that IL to say, the eggs were broken
into these casks and packed I'm Ho'
land they were not in their shells. such
as those that are sent over for house
hold cooking or table use. This Is de.
cldedly trade that ought TO be stopped
at once, for II was a usual occurrence
that these eggs arrived in a semi-de-
cayed state. OF course they were new
er destroyed, as the loss would have
been too great. They were well beaten
up. and owing to the flavorings used
and the baking they were subjected 10
1, was remarkable how little apparent