Outside the packing plants, newly arrived immigrants men and women desperate for jobs offered to work for even lower wages. ... The packing plants were dangerous places--sites of accidents and sources of all kinds of diseases from pneumonia and blood poisoning to deadly tuberculosis. ... To survive, workers in the meat-packing plants were forced to take part in a horrendous fraud, one that affected nearly every American. ... On a number of occasions In the process to obtain profits, the dedicated worker that contributed many years of his life and talent to building the company is discard. ... ...

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