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Dear Chicago Tribune,
My name is Jurgis Rudkus. I am a Lithuanian immigrant who came to America with my wife, Ona. I’m writing this letter to inform you of what is going on in the meat packaging factories. I came to America to live out the American dream, but what I got was the reality of wage slavery. The working conditions are disgustingly horrible. Everyway we go to work in a worn out broken-down factory where meat is rotten and diseased. Meat packers were put into assembly line. More accurately a "disassembly line," requiring nearly 80 separate jobs from the killing of an animal to processing its meat for sale. "Killing gangs" held jobs like "knockers," "rippers," "leg breakers," and "gutters." The animal carcasses moved continuously

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