TheJungle-Mathias


 * A Congressional Call for the Bill of Wage Reform**

The recent events dealing with the meatpacking industry have shocked me. I have been presented with a situation of extreme destitution; men and women unable of health, family, or progress are locked into a cycle of pain and suffering. The meatpacking plants in the North have perpetuated an environment that is steadily bleeding its society to death. The climate cultured by this industry is detrimental to not only the people involved in it but also to the American morality and the climate in which they must live is detrimental to the overall health of the community. Extreme cold foments disease and pain; a solicitation of wages by saloons causes poverty; the low wages exacerbate the situation. Action must be taken to if not rectify the situation, at least begin a convalescent plan of action. I am putting forth this plan of action.

The Bill of Wage Reform will rescind many problems revolving around the industry. I am not naive enough to expect an abolishment of the industrial state to break any ground nor gain any support; the Wage Reform attacks the problems created by the meat packing corporations not the corporations themselves. It will allow companies to continue with their current locations and programs of management causing as little disruption to the ordinary work schedules and programs as possible. Its goal is to improve wages which will work in several ways to rectify the problems caused by industrial corporations. Workers will be able to bolster their wardrobes to protect against the imminent cold. Families will be able to provide better, more nutritional foods. Most of all, workers will be able to seperate themselves from the saloon monopoly on check exchange. This reform will revolutionize the worker-corporate relationship and allow for an improvement in worker disposition, industrial efficiency, and make the industrial system superior in all aspects. The Bill of Wage Reform is the answer to our prominent industrial difficulties.