The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-08-28
Honorable Heritage?


his lot with Roosevelt because he
Perkins, has children, he says.
He says he wants to remedy al
human ailments, and especially care
for the women toilers.
In the mills of the Osborne Irvine
company No. at Auburn, N. Y,
which is owned by the International
Harvester company, of which George
W. Perkins is director and leading
light, an investigation on the part
OF Senator Robert F. Wagner of the
state factory investigating commit
tee discloses the most ihhuman and
brutal treatment OF women
The investigation started about IL
week ago and in these few days the
inconsistency of the third term can
didate's principal hacker has been
fully shown.
Women are made to toll all night
long in the Perkins directed haryes-
ter trust factory.
Some of these women receive as
high as 81 a week, but many of
them only SIS. They are given fif-
teen minutes for their lunch.
And they work in dust laden rooms
from twelve to fourteen hours
day
On Aug. II Roosevelt said:
'tMr. Perkins is rich man, Fl
came into my movement on his own
initiative. | have known him for
fourteen years. and when he joined
me asked him, Why are you sup
porting me?
He said the primary reason was
because he had children. He had
all the money he wanted, he said.
and had come to the conclusion that
this country won't be good place
to live in when his children become
the age we are unless business ana
government are brought into proper
relations. unless the relations OF
capital and the Mage Garner are
placed on better basis"
In his speech delivered on the
same day at Revere Beach, Mass,
Roosevelt said:
II wish an eight hour day for
women Of industry, | wish safety
appliances, and / wish to secure
healthful conditions for the wage
workers
George w. Perkins in his confess
sion of faith ON Aug. 20--and this
date is important-s said:
Money is not all in this life. The
mere accumulation of wealth will
not bring an honorable heritage to
my only son. Is there not something
more than the incentive to make
money which can leave him?"
Four days before these statements
We're made by Roosevelt and Per
kins the New York state factory in
vestigating committee visited the In
ternational Harvester company
plant and there examined working
girls and married women, and their
testimony is lcag recital of tears
and misery and enforced slavery, in.
sanitary conditions and starvation
wages.
The pathetic story of the girls
and women, as officially reported
shows the monumental double deal
ing and heartlessness of Perkins, the
financial hacker of the third term
party.
Read what Senator Wagner says:
THE appearance of the women
workers in this plant was very dis
heartening. They were worn and
pale, and their clothes, faces and
hands were covered with oil and
hemp cloth. Many of these women
SO called, are only children in age,
and they have to lug huge piles of
hemp, weighing $50 pounds each,
across the floor, the load in some
cases being bigger than the women
themselves.
In the spinning room, where
women are employed alone, to the
exclusion of men. VINO would have
to receive higher wages, the clatter
OF machinery is so frightful that a
voice below shrek cannot be
heard. The rooms are dark, though
for no necessary cause, and no at
tempt is made to remove the dust,
which is kept in constant motion by
the line shafting, despite the re-