The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-15
PACKING PLANTS
WELL CONDUCTED
ARepOrt Made to National AS
ISOLATION of Manu-
faCturerS.
CLEAN BILL GIVEN THEM
NO CHANCE TO USE ANY DIS
EASED ANIMALS.
CLEAN BILL GIVEN THEM

Chicago. June 1.-THE committee Of
the National Association of Manufac-
turers appointed to make an examina-
tiOn of the packing establishment at the
Union stock yards viii submit its re-
port tomorrow The committee consists
Of President J. W. Van CIeave, St.
Louis, president Of the association; Da-
vid NJ. Parry. eX-president of the ma
tional association, Indianapolis; Elliot
Duron5- Cbi"agO, vice-DreSident .
all the pracLcaI business men are IA
miliaT with the general conditions Of
factory work.
They say in their report. with no an
nOunCement of their intention they pre-
sented themselves before the packers
and requested to be allowed to make an
investigation on their own account
They we're given the freedom of the
plant. singly and collectively. with
guides or without. as they might elect.
A Systematic Inspection.
THE work of inspection the commit
mittee says, was not conducted in a
haphazaTd way. but was systematized
and followed. point by point, to q final
conclusion. DR.. Joseph Hughes. presi-
dent of the Chicago Veterinary college,
accompanied the committee and the as
sistance of the chiefs of the govern
ment inspectors was invoked. The COM
mittee followed the government inspec-
tors in their regular routine from start
10 finish and is convinced that so per-
feet is the organization that no carcass
can possibly escape the watchful eye
Of the Inspector, and If by any careless
ness on the part of a single individual
an animal does escape, it is detected by
some one of the three inspectors. It
was amply demonstrated that if there
is doubt regarding the heaIthful con-
ditiOn Of a carcass the suspect from that
moment passes out Of the jurisdiction Of
the factory employees and is placed I'M
der lock and key until it enters the
rendering tank
The committee learned from the gov
eminent inspectors that 80 per cent of
the business of the stock yards is in
fresh meats, against which very little
complaint has been entered, the prin-
cipaI charges being against the curing
and canning departments. The commit
tee did find much to CTitiCise in the way
of sanitary conditions and asked for a
conference of the principals Of ali the
large packing houses. which was cheer
fully granted.
Improvements to Be Made,
To those representatives the COM
mittee presented every point in which.
III the OPINION OF the members. an I'M
RrOvemenI might be made, and the
packers unanimously agreed that the
sauggestiOns should be acted upon imme-
Vlatelv as far as practicable
Z The committee, in summing up. de
cided that the reports which have gone
out regarding the packing establish
ments have been grossly exaggerated
and that d great injustice has been
done as well as an irTeparable damage
TO the greatest industry of the country.
Also. that while many details of a tTiv-
iaI nature might be improved upon, the
general conditions. involving sanitary,
general cleanliness and a production of
wholesome food are far better than the
average hotel kitchen. or even the kitch-
ems of a large percentage of private res
licences and greatly superior to cOndi-
tions found in a large percentage of the
smaller markets in the city and coun-
try.
THE sanitary conditions of the work
men in the summer time, while not per-
feet. are all that could be expected
where so many are cOngregated in close
proximity.
None of the factories Is conducted as
4 show plant, but as A plain every day
business. where everything possible is
turned TO account. like all other we'll
conducted business enterprises