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AN OFFICIAL OF THE PACKERS
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the quarters of beefs. Negroes have always been best at this."

The following figures represent the distribution of nationalities and race among the employes of Armour & Co.: 2,052 Poles, 2,000 negroes, 1,372 Lithuanians, 5,167 Americans, 141 Bohemians, 118 Jews, 669 Irish, 41 Greeks, 300 Germans, 150 Slovaks, 56 Mexicans, 205 Russians, 23 Scots, 55 Italians.

The employes of the other plants are said to be divided in about the same proportions.