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Meatpacking Industry
Immigrants from Poland,Slovakia and Lithuania, immigrants have crowded tenements apartments and rented rooms. -
Canned Foods
All the canned products have labeled of is a sample "The contents of this package has been inspected according to the act of congress". -
The Horror of Meating
Four major meat-packing corporations had brought out the many small slaughterhouse companies throughout the United States. -
The Jungle
A book named "The Jungle" made by Upton Sinclair had discovered the real truth about the Meatpacking and great details about the industry. -
Congress Laws
The Congress/Government has passed the meat inspection act, after Theodore Roosevelt was suspicious of Sinclair's socialist attitude and conclusions in The Jungle, so he sent labor commissioner Charles P. Neill to go investigate in all of Meatpacking factories. -
Danger of Factories
A Triangle shirtwaist factory fire had happened and people are realizing the dangers of factories conditions. -
Passed Act
President Wilson passed the Adamson Act wanting to help workers to make the factories safe for them and making sure that the meats were well produced. -
Workers
The Stoczkyard, it was estimated that the industries related to the stockyards employed fully one-half of Omaha workers. Knowing that owners of factories could easily fire all of them and hire new one.
